I have only been a cat Mom for two years and our first vet visit a year ago was in home which with a rabies shot was $125 total which I thought was a great deal. (I'm in NYC)
Coco started having goopy swollen red eyes Monday night and the home visit vet couldn't get her in until Sat. so I had to look for a new office.
Coco did great at her visit and kept very calm. The vet informed me that since she had not had bloodwork done yet it would be a good idea to do that along with a test to check the distemperment level. If this was low they would do the shot free of cost.
She thinks Coco had allergies and gave me some eye wipes and antihistamines for her wet food.
The breakdown came to $100 for the visit plus bloodwork and meds at $279.00. Since I had already purchased a yelp deal for $75 for $100 they would not apply the new customer deal which I didn't know about ($50) and would have been better off doing to have a $229 total.
This all seems really steep to me-especially a test just to check a distemper level for $64 extra.
What is typical for this stuff? I'm a freelancer and am going to be broke if this keeps up. I'm really happy she's ok but they also said she needs her teeth cleaned and her gums are very red giving me an estimate of over $850 for that process. gulp.
Coco started having goopy swollen red eyes Monday night and the home visit vet couldn't get her in until Sat. so I had to look for a new office.
Coco did great at her visit and kept very calm. The vet informed me that since she had not had bloodwork done yet it would be a good idea to do that along with a test to check the distemperment level. If this was low they would do the shot free of cost.
She thinks Coco had allergies and gave me some eye wipes and antihistamines for her wet food.
The breakdown came to $100 for the visit plus bloodwork and meds at $279.00. Since I had already purchased a yelp deal for $75 for $100 they would not apply the new customer deal which I didn't know about ($50) and would have been better off doing to have a $229 total.
This all seems really steep to me-especially a test just to check a distemper level for $64 extra.
What is typical for this stuff? I'm a freelancer and am going to be broke if this keeps up. I'm really happy she's ok but they also said she needs her teeth cleaned and her gums are very red giving me an estimate of over $850 for that process. gulp.
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