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kirsty said:
Hi Katie,Try Ian C Butt up at Loanhead and also I think they are called Happy Pets at Viewforth. Someone in the park was telling me that Happy Pets are really cheap?

Let us know how you get on :thumbsup:
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i was just gona say i googled vetwise and happy pets was what came up, but hula has just confirmed that :)

thanks kirsty i will give them both a try :thumbsup:
 
Hi Katie

I got quotes for Toddy's big day (male neuter) but the difference in pricing is amazing. Due to their physical makeup sight hounds do not react to some drugs the way other breeds with normal body-fat content do. Barbiturate based anesthethetics should not be administered. Propofol and Isoflurane are the gas and intravenous drugs of choice.

Happy pets are the cheapest. http://www.happypets-edinburgh.com/ £150 (for bitch under 20KG) £95 (for dog under 20 KG)

They only do spay and innocculation Not sure of anesthetic used would need to check that it is Propofol and Isoflurane . Based in Polwarth terrace

My Vets Links Group £170 (for dog neuter not sute of bitch price but over £250)

Other Local vets Gordons £114.50 (for dog neuter)

If Happy pets use the anesthetics of choice, Toddy will be going there.

My vets are excellent but getting so expensive (building state of the art new premisis). I will be sorry to leave them but the other local vet Gordons charges £11 less for a booster jab and I cannot see how my vets can justify the difference in price.
 
Interesting, Toddy must have known that Star and Ruby were coming into season when he met them last Sunday. It was the first time he had shown any interest in the fairer sex :) :( 8)

Must be a lot to cope with having TYG with you too. Just as well he is only 4 months :))

Your poor girls, they must be feeling a bit rough and confued as it is their first time. Give them :huggles: :huggles: from us

eve
 
eve said:
Interesting, Toddy must have known that Star and Ruby were coming into season when he met them last Sunday. It was the first time he had shown any interest in the fairer sex :) :( 8) Must be a lot to cope with having TYG with you too. Just as well he is only 4 months :))

Your poor girls, they must be feeling a bit rough and confued as it is their first time. Give them :huggles: :huggles: from us

eve
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star isnt in season (yet) :sweating:

lol yes, tyg spent most of sunday night trying to hump rubys head :blink:

but we didnt think she was in season till monday night and since then he hasnt bothered her at all, only the odd sniff.

i always thought if we ever got a pup star would take to the pup better than ruby as ruby is the boss lol,

but its ruby who has accepted tyg far better than star, its such a shame, she just looks so missrable (im guessing from the season) but shes just letting tyg bite her ears and ambush her coming round the corner lol.

Star has taken the hump, as Ruby has a new friend, right now rubys hugged up to me, tyg up to her, and stars in her bed :(

im sure by the time Tyg goes of to sue's star will be over it and hugged up to, but just now shes not impressed lol.
 
The barbiturate anaesthetic thiopentone has been disintinued now so if using gaseous anaesthesia should be propofol or equivalent. Beware though as some 'cheap' places do not put tubes down, give oxygen etc they just use a concoction of drugs eg ketamine to get them anaesthesia for approx 30 ins, this is in no way controllable, or very often even monitored. Othe thing s to bear in mind - or questions to ask: Does the vet wear sterile gloves hat and mask for all procedures - it may seem standard but trust me not all do in order to save a few pence. Is the dog monitored though anaesthetic by someone qualified. Do they give pain relief and dispense some to go home with. Do the animals have iv access the whole way through the op eg a an iv catheter in place, and better still do they have iv fluids through out the procedure. Are the pre and post op check ups included. This will hopefully give you an idea of the level of care your pet will be receiving, the cheapest is not always giving the same level of care so check first. I would be strongly questioning anything much under £100 for a bitch spay, I know places ofering it for £60 but would seriously question their procedures for that.
 
myself an OH spoke about this last night, and it seems happy pets/vetwise are the cheepest, but compared to our own vet its only a few ££

so for the added hastle of taking them some place new where we have never met them, and it being alot further away than our vet (15min walk, 5min car) i think we will just stick with ours, that is if we decided to go ahead with it.

thanks guys for all your help

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My old boy had to have a castration earlier this year as his prostate was giving him some trouble and it cost me £200 :(
 
For those of you in the Essex area, we are taking our girls to be spayed soon to a vets in Rayleigh, Essex. They charge £100 and we have used them before for boosters etc. which are also cheaper than the average vets. We were quite happy with the answers we received from the many questions we asked about the spaying operation and the anesthetics they would be using.

While waiting for Jazz to come into season, our local vets quoted price at the time was £130 which we were quite happy to pay and now she and Kadie have had their season the price has gone up to £180 each, so I shopped around. The vets are www.yourvets.co.uk.

Donna.
 
I have been quoted £150 each for my two to be neutered (male) as they go by weight and Ros and Grover are Fatboy Whippets :D (17kg at the last weigh in). I know my vets are good with whippets, very experienced and would rather do without stuff myself than go somewhere cheaper. The vet nurse who assists has whippets of her own and knows all about the anaesthetic prolems that can occur. Like others have said, I'd be worried they were cutting corners if they were charging much less. :(
 
Esty said:
I have been quoted £150 each for my two to be neutered (male) as they go by weight and Ros and Grover are Fatboy Whippets :D (17kg at the last weigh in). I know my vets are good with whippets, very experienced and would rather do without stuff myself than go somewhere cheaper. The vet nurse who assists has whippets of her own and knows all about the anaesthetic prolems that can occur. Like others have said, I'd be worried they were cutting corners if they were charging much less. :(
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Sid was 17kg last week when he was weighed :b and Ben 12kg

Our vets are much the same as yours... he has whippets of his own so I know he knows what he is talking about and we often stand talking about them all after they have seen our boys :lol:
 
Gracie will be having a first season before being spayed but reading the comments and seeing the difference in prices, it prompted me to contact my vets who I have used for 23 years. The quoted me £148.00 and routinely use Propofol and Isoflurane. I meant to ask if they offered keyhole surgery and, if so how many spays had been carried out using this method but will be seeing them soon so shall ask then.
 
Ive looked into the price of getting Wispa done and it was 180 and then asked about getting Bullet castrated 120 so 300 for both ,

I was cheeky enough to ask for a discount and he said he probably do them both for 250 which i think isnt too bad

I know my vet likes to be paid as you go so to speak but i did ask him if i could spread the cost other a few months which he agreed to

so i very happy with that :D

I think im lucky because the vet i go to is great and most of all my dogs love ALL the vets at that pratice which to me says alot so as prices go

i prefer to go to the one i trust then go somewhere cheaper that i dont know
 
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