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That would be your opinion not a fact. I stated my opinion earlier.
Yes, and the fact is, a vet for birds can get way out of the stratusphere on price...here's one small example: I wanted to take my three parrots in just to have their beaks and nails trimmed. That would have cost just under $200, and for something that needs done a few times a year! A nail job on a dog would run maybe $15 at a groomer. You can get three horses trimmed for a lot less than that. I went and bought a cordless Dremmel for a fraction of the cost and now I do it myself. You can't begin to imagine what anything more complicated than beaks or nails will cost, because lots of these folks don't know either until they start writing the bill. Then they get cranky with you when you ask how much it will cost.
I also had a sick bird once and went to see a so-called "avian vet"...drove through a blizzard to get there to find out that this person didn't even know how to give a parrot a shot. After waiting 45 minutes till she got her act together, I asked her if she wanted me to give the shot too and told the person at the desk that I wasn't paying for anything but the med after the fiasco I went through that night with them.
Probably one of the best things to do is, before huge emergencies arise, decide what you can spend on vet care and aftercare in money and other resources for a given animal and then have that number in mind so that you don't make huge financial committments when you are under duress and emotional stress. I did that recently with one of my animals and stuck to it, and am glad I did, because when you're on a crying jag is not the time to be making big decisions. It always hurts when you have to make these kind of decisions but then you're not hit with the "why on earth did I go through with this" mindset later, especially if the animal is going to be affected for life. Better to consider the possible outcomes and make an informed decision and have that decision in your back pocket before the worst can happen.
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That would be your opinion not a fact. I stated my opinion earlier.
Yes, and the fact is, a vet for birds can get way out of the stratusphere on price...here's one small example: I wanted to take my three parrots in just to have their beaks and nails trimmed. That would have cost just under $200, and for something that needs done a few times a year! A nail job on a dog would run maybe $15 at a groomer. You can get three horses trimmed for a lot less than that. I went and bought a cordless Dremmel for a fraction of the cost and now I do it myself. You can't begin to imagine what anything more complicated than beaks or nails will cost, because lots of these folks don't know either until they start writing the bill. Then they get cranky with you when you ask how much it will cost.
I also had a sick bird once and went to see a so-called "avian vet"...drove through a blizzard to get there to find out that this person didn't even know how to give a parrot a shot. After waiting 45 minutes till she got her act together, I asked her if she wanted me to give the shot too and told the person at the desk that I wasn't paying for anything but the med after the fiasco I went through that night with them.
Probably one of the best things to do is, before huge emergencies arise, decide what you can spend on vet care and aftercare in money and other resources for a given animal and then have that number in mind so that you don't make huge financial committments when you are under duress and emotional stress. I did that recently with one of my animals and stuck to it, and am glad I did, because when you're on a crying jag is not the time to be making big decisions. It always hurts when you have to make these kind of decisions but then you're not hit with the "why on earth did I go through with this" mindset later, especially if the animal is going to be affected for life. Better to consider the possible outcomes and make an informed decision and have that decision in your back pocket before the worst can happen.