getting spayed
 

Kiwi is getting spayed in the morning. I was just curious at the cost others have paid to get a female spayed. We have been quoted $400.00. I thought this was a little high. Just curious what others have paid.

I'm curious to know too. Around my area I've been given a range from $250 up to $400. They say it depends on the size, etc...

Spay
 

Roxee had hers done on June 7. I paid $153 for her to be done. She had no teeth pulled, just the spay.

Good luck to your baby girl! Keep us posted on how she does.

Thea and Roxee:aimeeyork

I'm going to call for prices and an appointment in 2 weeks for Kamari. I'm :eek: at the $400 cost. I'm hoping no more than $150.

Morgan was spayed, microchipped and had 6 teeth pulled for alittle over $300

My vet charges around 139.00 for the spay and 40.00 for the elective presurgery bloodwork. Stella is getting spayed July 7 and he is going to have to remove several teeth which he quoted $7.00 to $9.00 a tooth. Where in NC are you?

A normal cost for a spay around here is around $100, but one place I called quoted me $350!

WOW I just had My katie spayed last month 160.00 plus 40.00 for micro chip

I just got Sassy spayed today and it was $207 for the blood work and 2 teeth pulled

I just recently changed vets...not because of his prices...personality conflict with one of his staff members. I was quoted for Lillie, who is 1 yr and hasn't had a heat yet, up around 400.00. Sadie, who is 3yrs and had 3 heats, over 500.00.

I got a quote from my new vet today between 351.50 and 535.00...that is with an IV catheter 42.00 (optional) and wellness profile 72.00 (optional) and micro chipping 35.00 (optional) so if I decided to opt out of these three I would probably be around 200.00... I have met the vet (at a friends house) so when I bring the girls in to have their first health check with the new vet, I am going to discuss these optional costs with her. I don't plan on micro chipping but, I really feel the IV is a good thing,....I have to find out what a wellness profile is...I also have pet insurance which will pay 65.00 of each spay. I do expect Sadie to be higher where she is older...OH...and Lillie needs 1 tooth pulled...I don't know if she will charge for that...I would think where they are already out they would just pull it for no charge.

OMG I have never heard of such high prices! No wonder a lot of people don't get their pets spayed or neutered! I had never heard of paying more than like $150 for a spay until the place that told me $350 and I thought that just sounded crazy...

My Lexie is at the vet as I type this. She is being spayed, getting microchipped and having 2 teeth pulled. I also opted for the safety/care package that includes preop blood panel, nail trim, and IV. My total is $279.99. I love my vet and he is very reasonable.

Lulu was spayed on Thursday. Here is the vet bill breakdown. Lulu weighs 2.5lbs.

$40 - Exam
$174 - Spay
$7 - Turb (painkiller to go home with, 3 whole pills)
$28 - Rabies Shot
$24 - Amoxcillin
$15.95 - Interceptor (heart worm pills)
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$288.95 * included removal of a couple baby teeth

Here is our breakdown of costs
 

Emmy was spayed at the same time she had a hernia removed in August of last year. The entire procedure including meds., food, a soft collar (to keep her from licking spot) was only 332.15. She had to stay with the vet overnight. The vet took her home with her and slept in the guest room with Emmy. She is a fabulous vet...the only problem is she is 4 hours away from our home. She is the vet in the town where my daughter lives now. Once she moves to Atlanta, we probably won't be able to use her anymore.:(

The spay by itself is 140.00.

In March we had to have baby teeth removed and got Emmy microchipped--the bill was only 190 then (microchip was 44.00).

I was not sure if it was high, low, or moderately priced. I guess now I know it was NOT TO EXPENSIVE!

I have a question...
 

Is neutering for males about the same cost? Is it more or less invasive????

spayed
 

We went ahead and had Kiwi spayed this morning. They called and all is fine. I can pick her up at 3:00. I feel the prices were high. They are charging for regular anesthesia(85.00) and then a charge for additional anesthesia (65.00). We assume that is because she is getting two teeth pulled at 40.00 a tooth. When we had our poodle done years ago in another state, they pulled the teeth for free since she was already under. They also charge for a blood panel(75.00), antibiotic injection (18.00), blood count
(38.00), blood pressure (30.00), collect specimen (12.00) medicine (17.00 and 26.00), surgical prep (15.00) and then dental scaling (50.00). I don't know if I listed everything but the estimate was 504.24. We will not go back to this vet. I really feel since we just spent 500.00 having both dogs there last week for their yearly check and we were having our poodle's teeth cleaned (189.00-they did the blood work during the original visit so we already paid for that-at least they could of either pulled her teeth or cleaned them for a discount. But.....they were recommended as a great vet with high tech for surgery and we were so worried about Kiwi we wanted to be sure we left nothing to chance. But I need to find a more reasonable vet for the yearly check-ups. Thanks for the post.

It was going to cost us 300, but it's 90. We're getting a certificate from http://friendsofanimals.org/ See if your vet takes those. :)

They over charged. Shame on them. It only takes a few seconds to pull those baby teeth. Every time I have had to have teeth pulled they never charged me since they just did it while they were under for a spay or neuter. Amazing how they rip us off.

That's terrible, I'm getting Stella spayed Friday and she also is having some teeth pulled. Spay cost is around 130.00, pre-surgery blood panel 39.00 and each tooth will be between 7.00 to 9.00. He told me if I had it done at seperate times it would cost 48.00 for anesthesia. You must be close to the "Queen City"

Teeth
 

How come they have to have their teeth pulled? Does your vet check that before he does the procedure to see if it needs to be done. Our baby is not having it done until Aug. but I was just wondering about the teeth.

I think we paid 150.00-170.00. We had the extra blood work done too.

Heather-Mamma to Gracie and Hallee

Lulu was just done on the 21st of June and it cost me $288.95 and that included her rabies and a six month supply of interceptor and removed some baby teeth that needed to come out.

Good luck with your cutie. She will do fine. Lulu was a champ for hers. She was back to herself the next day.

Usually at the pre-surgical visit then check their mouth to see if there are any double teeth. The usually do the extraction at the same time so as to not have to put them under again.