How much does your vet charge you to spay a cat?

my regular vet charges about $150. the clinic i take the strays to to TNR them charges $35 a spay, $10 extra if they're in heat and up to $95 if they're pregnant.

I asked my vet clinic last week since we have a new kitten that will need to be spayed.  If she is not in heat, $165.

Huge suggestion to all of you with a shelter near your area: look into the low cost programs! My local Humane Society offers a terrific discount spay/neuter program! There are about 12 vets offices on a list that you can chose from, and you go into the Humane Society and pay $50 up front, then they call and make an appointment for your to take your pet in to be spayed/neutered with one of the clinics on the list that you chose. It is really such an amazing program! It's for both cats and dogs. I had my Aussie, Mykelti spayed through that program about a year ago. Since I was able to chose off a list of multiple vets, I was able to chose the one near my house that I had been to before and had a good relationship with. They took excellent care of her and did a great job on the spay. (Since I previously worked for animal control and assisted in spays, I knew what to look for, so I was happy that they did a great job.)

I definitely recommend calling your local Humane Society, ASPCA, or other shelters in your area to see if there are low-cost spay/neuter programs like that one. They really do make such a positive difference!

(One thing though, if you do opt to go with a laser spay/neuter through a vets office (typically easier on the pet and less bleeding/recovery time) those can be more expensive, because it is a newer technology.) I'd also factor in additional expenses for pain medicine should your pet need them.)

300.00 ish

Cost about £38 iirc for both male and female at my vets 

My vet charges $75 for females to be spayed and $55 for nuetering males. The nearest Humane Socity to me is 50 miles away so I dont use them however they charge $30 male and $45 female cats (ferals are $20).

£40 for Benny in June, I suspect just over £50 for a female without complicating factors.  The girls here in the UK are done via their left flank, the incision the vet made when my other female was spayed was about 1cm long - about the width of my thumb - and she bounced right back.  They use dissolving stitches (less for her to pick at) and a check at 10 days was included in the cost when the girl was done. 

Some of those prices sound totally OTT, at least for young healthy kittens.

Last year, I think it was, the SPCA here was trying to get the government to hand over the money to open up a low cost spay/neuter clinic. As far as I know, there are none in Nova Scotia and of course, the cat population is out of control. I never heard anything more about it, so I assume it was a no-go, sadly. Tired of people complaining about all the strays/ferals, yet no one is willing to step up and help. All they asked for $400,000. 

2 of our last 3 cats came from the local HS and they came done. Aya is the only cat I had to pay to have done and that was in Japan. It cost just under 20,000yen. At that time I think the yen was around 100-115 to the USD.

When I worked for a Vet clinic I think both procedures were definitely over $200, with the spay coming in at closer to 3. Corporate owned BTW... Lots of our clients opted to get it done elsewhere and come back for other services...

Alicemama said:

My vet charges $400..$475 with preop bloodwrk

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That is exactly what my vet charges as well.  I do get a 20% discount so the actual spay is $320.  Still $75 for the preop bloodwork.  A little pricey compared to some but I know my cats are in the best of hands so I don't mind paying it.

I just paid around $300 for Pepper. That included laser surgery, inhalant anesthesia and microchip.

Wow I thought the prices over here were high but some of those prices   no one here would ever get them done if the vets charged some of those prices. Last month Willow cost me €100 this was $127 and Salty was €50 so $63 this included antibiotics for Willow and her stitches taken out 10 days later.

In the Washington, DC area I was quoted anywhere from $285 (male) to over $800 (female, required overnight stay) to get a cat spay/neutered.  Those prices are from vets.

For TNR purposes, it is around $60, which includes rabies, calicovirus shots, defleaing, etc.  The organization I went through to get 35 cats s/n off and on over a 2.5 year period luckily didn't require the cats to be absolutely feral; at least 1/3 of these cats were previously owned but abandoned.  An organization I volunteer for recently opened its own non-profit s/n center.  They charge for $55 female, $45 male, rabies and eartip.  As part of the arrangement they made with other vets--who were opposed to them opening a s/n clinic in their neighborhood--they had to agree not to offer any routine care services and cannot keep cats overnight.

Once or twice a year our local SPCA does a free spay/neuter for cats, kittens and pitbulls. Luckily, Java was old enough when the time came so her spay and rabies vaccine was free. We did pay the $15 for after care pain meds and an e-collar (which we ended up not needing). We appreciated it SO much.

The low cost animal hospital here charges $25 for neuters and $60 for spays. Both include pain meds/after care.

Regular vet charges around $100 for spay and $50 for neuters. Depending on what part of town you are in though, it can get crazy expensive.

Wow that price is just outrageous!!!! At my shelter the adoption fee is $70 and that includes the surgery, first shots, first deworming, microchipping, and a free vet visit! If you have another pet and just want to get them fixed it's $40. There is also another shelter that has a mobile spay and neuter clinic in the Summer and Fall that only charges $10!

I totally understand that vets are running a business same as everyone else and that there is a lot of overhead associated with that. However, I would think that most vets would care about general animal well-being and would want to support the message of spay and neuter and so would make it affordable. I know they have to make a living but that shouldn't happen at the expense of their morals!

Re-coup the overhead in some other way. Make spay and neuter more affordable! 

EB24 said:

Wow that price is just outrageous!!!!

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I would think that most vets would care about general animal well-being and would want to support the message of spay and neuter and so would make it affordable. I know they have to make a living but that shouldn't happen at the expense of their morals!

Re-coup the overhead in some other way. Make spay and neuter more affordable! 

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I agree.  My previous vets (when I lived in Leeds) were not cheap, except for neutering.  They did a lot of the RSPCA work and I'm sure they were very aware of how essential making neutering costs reasonable is.

Could I ask the name of the vet clinic you use? Looking to have our furbaby spayed and the cost here in Halifax is astronomical. Thanks!

Wow... I got my cat spayed at the local SPCA for $65. My vet wanted like $150. That's insane to ask that much for spaying a cat... and by charging that much less people will have their pet fixed... 

Toronto prices depress me. For everything-not just animal care, lol. My vet price to get an ultrasound in Toronto is 700 with tax. Welcome to the big city! A spay at my Scarborough vet was around 200, I think. Neuter was a lot cheaper.

I think it would be difficult to find a regular vet that does spays for under $200 in Ontario. Maybe a neuter..

Spays run between $250 and $350 depending on the vet. And we are in "cottage country". Most drive to the

low cost spay/neuter clinic in Newmarket. And most vets will not spay until they have had all of their shots.

Most cannot afford hundreds of dollars and we wonder why we have  cat's coming out our ying yang.