Feline Urinary Tract Infection ****PICTURE OF SMOKEY ADDED ****

[Southern28Chick]

$310

 

[nccountrygirl]

Oh Trisha I'm so sorry about the vet bill but at least you know that you did what you could to help him, a lot of people would have let an "ole cat " die. LOL

 

[BarbK]

I am glad to hear that it was was a uti instead of the other. I am sorry about the price though. Yeouwch!!! However better safe than sorry.

 

[Southern28Chick]

I brought him home and went into the kitchen to take the dishes out of the dish washer. DH can home and I went to the front of the house to talk to him. Then he walked by me into the kitchen and yelled "SMOKEY!!!!!!" I thought oh great, what now. I walk into the kitchen to find Smokey standing on the open dish washer door peeing. I'm just happy he peed. There was a small amount of blood in it though.

 

[rooster-red]

Think of it this way...
Thats just 100 bars of soap.

I'll order my part this weekend.

 

[nccountrygirl]

Trisha, that is normal. Glad he's feeling some what better

 

[serendipity22]

OMG! That's highway robbery!

My cat had a UTI and the treatment wasn't anything near that much! I'm sure he must have been really sick... Did they recommend you change your feed or anything to help with it not happening again?

I am glad he's feeling better though, although not nearly as much as the cat is, I'm sure!

 

[ruth]

Trisha - what did they do that caused a $310 bill? They kept him for a few hours, not even overnight, and gave him some antibiotics?

I'm dreading my cat's vet bill. Gizmo is currently being quarantined for 10 days for rabies watch just because he was behind on his shot. He has always preferred living in the woods instead of being inside. Well when he didn't come home for a week I went in the woods and got him. He had lost weight, was making gurgling/cold sounds and was dehydrated. While I was carrying him in he saw the new cat, which he hates, and struggled to get out of my arms. I got a few small holes which I think were from his claws but the vet said he legally had to report it to animal services and they would probably order the cat be put down for testing. Luckily they said he could be quarantined. So I'll have 10 days of $20 a day boarding, fluids injected under his skin to rehydrate him, antibiotics, blood and fecal tests (showed he had parasites) so treatment for that as well, feline leukemia/aids testing (negative). Wondering what all else they'll tack on. Learned an important lesson though. Learned the feed shops sell vaccines for $3 and I could have avoided all of this "rabies" stuff if we had just bought the meds there. We've since gone and bought them for all 4 cats and 2 dogs. $3 is a whole lot cheaper than the $120 our vet charges to see and vaccinate a "well" pet. We never seem to take our well pets in because one or the other of them is constantly being sick or run over.

Poor Gizmo - he also had a urinary tract infection 2 years ago and nearly died. I think his stay at vets cost a couple of hundred dollars. They ran tests on the "crystals" and said his was food related. Our other cat "Joe" had a uti the month before, another couple hundred dollars, and tests showed his crystals were "stress" related. It was very concidental to me that both cats had been taken in the week before they got UTIs for their well cat check up and vaccines. Vets claim it was totally unrelated but come on, you get them blood workup showing they are well (our vet won't give shots till they've decided pet won't have reaction to it and are well) and get their vaccines and then they stop peeing and nearly die on you? You're lucky you noticed yours when you did. We didn't notice till a week later when they could not get up.

It's amazing that vets charge what they do but they see us suckers (people who love their pets) coming a mile away.

 

[Southern28Chick]

Trisha - what did they do that caused a $310 bill? They kept him for a few hours, not even overnight, and gave him some antibiotics?

They ran 10 tests on him, including a FIV/leukemia (spelling) test which I didn't ask for. I'm starting to think that the vet I take them to is just an exspensive vet. They're the only vet in my town so they're faster to get to in an emergency. They have this big fancy building in the woods. It's so weird. When I took Smokey in the lady got on the intercom and said "Patient Smokey Lewis is ready to be admitted into the hospital". And the lady standing right behind her took Smokey to the back. What was the point in all that intercom fuss?!

The funny thing is this vet is directly across the street from a terrible farm with chickens that are severely mistreated. They probably don't know anything about chickens though.

Here's their site:
http://heartwoodhospital.com/​

 

[Wolfpacker]

Our vets do the same thing. They recommend all these tests for these new problems about which we've never heard and then hand us a whopping bill. I told my wife NO MORE! I don't mind shelling out the bucks to help one of my animals if it's sick or hurt, but these expensive tests for things that only happen to one in a million animals strikes me as a get-rich-quick scheme for vets. I told my vet in no uncertain words how I felt about it and she said they were just trying to be on the safe side.

Hmmmmm. I wonder.