My vet never ever charges for an office visit - he only charges for what he does; shots, fecal exam etc. It is always very inexpensive. If I take one of them in and there is nothing wrong or nothing to do, he doesn't charge anything.
He kept my old schnauzer who went into renal failure for 3 days till my daughter could get hold of me (I was on vacation - out of cell service range) and I could call the vet back. My sweet old baby was in renal failure. The vet bathed him and shaved his hind end (my baby was staying with my mom and got diarrhea and my mom didn't know it - she's old and her eyesight is not very good - plus he had black fur and he was laying out in the yard - mom thought he was just laying in the sun getting warm). Anyway the vet cleaned him up, kept him on IV's for 3 days, gave him pain meds, and then when I called him, we decided to go a head and send him to the rainbow bridge - we already had talked about this possibility should something happen while I was gone. He put him to sleep, sent him to the crematory and then received him back and when I went to pick up his ashes, he charged me $100. I nearly FELL OVER!
I am so grateful to have a vet like him!
__________________  Rex & Rowdy's Mom  |