Gypsy

Has your vet said what is the matter with gypsy, if not i certainly would be going back to the vets for further investigation

 

in my experince it pays to go to another vet for another opinion,try and find a vet who deals in small animals,please believe me i have seen this happen so many times,sometimes the cheapest is certainly not the way to go,try and go to a multi practice vets,were there older and more experience people and demand that they make a full check as to why this is happening,even to an x ray on the leg,i would like to know how you got on,best of luck.

 

I would certainly go to another vet. Have you examined the foot. Is there a thorn or something stuck between the toes that comes and goes and irritates.

Check yourself first, then go to another vet. Sorry, but I think they are basically all rip-off artists in England (certainly Bucks and the IoW) from how I've found out how things work here. And, they charge far, far less here.

Get another opinion, please! Love to the poor poppet!

 

All I can say, woo, is thank goodness you've god her insured.

I'm horrified at the prices you are quoting. A consultation here is 30 Euros (�£21).

Would you do me a favour and ask how much they charge to fix cats ... boys ???? girls ???? would appreciate that as we are being charged �£35 for a boy and �£52 for a girl.

Like you, mercenary doesn't come into it, it's the critters that count and we don't have insurance, just put by each month! ::

 

Vets must be the biggest rip off of all time, especially now most people have their pets insured. Once they find your insured they come up with a sorts of different procedures that cost massive amounts of money.
Last time I took the dog I was watching the computer screen in the consulting room, in large letters on every page it said at the top, INSURED.
I've got my insurance through Direct Line, the claim went in over six weeks ago and I'm still waiting.
Wish you luck wiseoldowl, hope its nothing serious, but they should have come up with a cause by now I would have thought, dont let them spin it out, they will if they can.

 

We put a certain sum of money each month into a "fund" for our cats as we do for various other things in our life!

My sister, Kedi-Gato, puts 2 Euros (�£1,40) per week into Gato's "piggy bank" for his medical expenses and an extra 2 Euros for birhtdays, Christmas, wbatever. When their friends give pressies, it's always 2 Euros for the cat. Nice idea, huh?

Is this not a better idea than insurance? We do similar here.

 

I would agree with the advise given. Examine your pets paw and see if you can find a hot spot. It may be a grass seed, or similar. Your vet should identifiy what is causing the problem before prescribing treatment.

In respect of reclaiming from an insurance company. If the treatment is within the cover, and you#'ve got the appropriate document from the vet - it comes through fairly quickly. When I had to reclaim, I used my credit card to pay, and payment was received in time for the paying it off in full.

 

dont like the sound of that vet, he should be advising that it should be done and what problems does he mean, you appear not to know what is the matter, cant understand why a vet can give a dog an injection without finding out first what is the problem.
normally a vet would give a dog an injection to relieve pain yet find out what is the matter, just cant understand this, Think i would be changing my vet also. good luck and let us know the outcome.

 

Hi hoping you can get answers to this soon,normally Metacam (if thats what it was)is given as anti-inflammatory for pain associated with arthritis or the likes.

 

When our Tina was a pup,these insurance polices had only just started and they would only insure the dog until the age of 9,just when it would start getting health problems,that was 15 years ago,now I think they do it for the whole of the animals life.When she developed Cushings it cost us �£88.77 a month for the two years she was on medication,so now a days the insurance is probably worth the money

 

Definitly, you need another vet wiseoldowl, and probably sooner rather than later.
Just like to add that Direct Line insurance consider 6 weeks their normal length of time to deal with a claim.
When I asked why dont they atleast send a letter stating that they have recieved the claim form and are dealing with it, I was told, that would create even more work and make the queue for claims even longer.

 

We, and my siser, Kedi-Gato from Germany, actually fund ourselves for vet bills.

It may not be ideal, but we put so much away each week/month and that usually covers the expenses. Admittedly, if something major happens, it may not cover it, certainly not in England, but it does here and I believe so in Germany also, for the most part.

We do the same thing for appliances, travel, vehicles, our medical, etc, etc ....

.... so far so good!