Spay at shelter
I passed an animal shelter near here today with a sign outside advertising $20.00 spay/neuters. January 8 I am going to have my kitten spayed at a Veternarian for roughly$350.00. I am not trying to...
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dturm wrote:
Doug, DVM
BTW, costs vary greatly by the area you live in. The taxes, personnel costs, etc. in my area are not the same as rural areas or generally as high as some areas like NY, California. So what someone else pays has very little value in assessing what you should be paying. $350 is pretty typical in our area for a full service spay, pre-op blood, catheter, fluids, pre-op pain meds, post-op pain meds, certified tech monitoring, suture removal, surgery, hospitalization and disposables.
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Our little girl was the first to be spayed at a vet we have built a relationship with. I don't regret using the clinics or SPCA reduced spays in the past but using the vet was worth the extra money.
No stress on our part. We dropped her off in the morning for the procedure and then picked her up the following afternoon. We were encouraged to be there when she came out of anesthesia and to return to feed her dinner and breakfast the following morning. Upon pickup she was her normal self. Still tried to keep her activity to a minimum but in her case didn't have to fight the darn cone on the neck and the nausea that the previous dogs have had.
