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Jenk

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I'm curious to know a few things regarding your vet's pricing:

1) What is the price for a standard exotics exam?

2) In what state do you live?

3) Are you near/in a large city (or out in the boonies)?

I ask because... Four years' ago, my vet charged $56 for a standard exotics exam. It slowly increased to $60. Earlier this year, another vet took over the practice, and the exam price dropped to $57.20. Today--not 2 months' from the last time I had a rabbit there--the price was $68.40. I nearly had a heart attack.

I'm in the Chicago 'burbs, btw.


Thank you,

Jenk
 
I have used 3 vets in our area in the last couple years. The exam prices were- $42 (my regular vet), $45 (vet I used when mine was on vacation), $75 (vet I used previously)

The crazy thing is that the vet I currently use is much better with the rabbits and a great vet. The one that was almost double is used by all the local rescues, so perhaps they pass along the costs to the clients? I really don't know why the difference.

I am in the Philadelphia suburbs.
 
I am in the Daytona Beach area. My vet is an exotics specialist and charges $45 for a basic exam for the public. The rescue gets a 25% discount off of that.
 
I can't remember what my last vet charged when I was just a client there. As an employee my exams were free. The vet I just took Timmy to quoted me $50 I think for the exam but ended up waiving the exam fee after learning I was a vet student (although I did come home with over $100 in drugs). I can also get free wellness exams for him at the clinic on campus so I guess I'm really not the best person to ask.
I'm in southern California, LA county in the city of Pomona.
 
I live in Calgary, Alberta and the vet I go to charges $83 for an exam. There is another vet we do use and I believe an exam there is $74, or something close to that.
 
audrinasmommy88 wrote:
My vet charges $56.50. I live in a very busy city, and my vet is in an even busier city
My vet's office is starting to seem very overpriced....

Still, I'd need to travel farther to see the closest exotics-only specialist, who charged $60 as of Dec. 2011, when I last took my boy bun there. Also, the longer drive is more stressful on my bun crew and may make the savings a moot point, considering what gas costs. Ugh...


Jenk
 
I'm in a podunk military town. We love our vet and she's maybe two miles away. Exotic exam is 50 bucks. She's AHA accredited and if she gets in over her head she'll make phone calls to the Exotic specialist in Oklahoma city (an hour and half away from us). I can only imagine what they're standard office call would be and I hope to never find out. She loves the rabbits and they board/see her so often half the time she never charges me.
 
Where I used to live (Philly suburbs) was between 50 and 60.

The only place within an hour and a half of where I live now (college town outside of Pittsburgh) that sees rats (luckily cheaper places see rabbits) charges 98.00 just to be seen for exotics (was about 50 or 60 for non exotics) the cheapest I ever came out of there was 135. Which is why I can't afford rats anymore that the rabbits live with me and we're getting a dog. I have to make sure that I can take care if the animals I have now.
 
I live in San Antonio, TX... was $58 (total) for a general check-up for two baby bunnies when I took them in a couple weeks after getting them.
 
I am not sure what my vet is going to charge yet, Snickers has an vet appointment this coming week. So my poor checkbook is cringing in fear already!
 
kmaben wrote:
[My vet[ loves the rabbits and they board/see her so often half the time she never charges me.
I wish I knew what it's like to have a vet not charge for a visit because I take my pets to him/her often. I spent $4K+ on two rabbits the first year that my husband and I had them; the vet who saw them never cut me a single cost break--not even on the cost of medication.

The vet I've been using for the past 4 years' time has cut me a few breaks in terms of lowering the cost of a few meds. But all in all, my husband and I have bent over backwards to try to afford the high annual vet bills; you'd think that we could/would/should get some visits for free, all things considered; but no. :(


Jenk
 
caustin4 wrote:
I think it's $49 for me. The initial exam is $62, but once the rabbit has been seen once the price drops to $49.
Does it drop to $49 forever and ever after the initial visit, or do you mean that it's $49 for a follow-up visit and raises to $62 for the next exam (for a new issue)?

The vets my buns have seen charge an initial visit fee, then a slightly lower "follow-up" fee if the bun is seen for the same issue within a month's time. But if a new issue arises, then the "initial"/high fee applies for that particular visit. Or if the bun suffers the same symptoms but is seen for them more than a month later from the initial exam, then the higher fee again applies.

Stated plainly: I think it stinks how--and how much--vets in my area charge.


Jenk
 
A lot of clinics will have a "new patient fee" (the most recent one I was charged was $8) in addition to the exam fee which is probably the difference between that $62 and $49.
 
Ours is € 27,50 for the small pets. That is roughly 34.50$ We live in a suburb or small city.

When I lived in Montreal it cost 45$ for the rabbit consults :)
 
It's $55 for any office visit where we go/are (but I'm not sticking it out there on the internet).

Jenk, $68 seems really pricey. Is there anywhere else you can go that's cheaper nearby? Have you looked on the House Rabbit Society listing?
 
Bunnylova4eva wrote:
...$68 seems really pricey.
That's my thought exactly.

Is there anywhere else you can go that's cheaper nearby? Have you looked on the House Rabbit Society listing?
Unfortunately, no other place listed on my local HRS website is nearly as close to my home. (I worry about a longish drive stressing one of our rabbits in particular.) But I do need to start considering other options, yes. :(

BTW, I know of two doctors--a naturopath and an integrative doctor--who charge a high fee for an initial appointment. But the first appointment lasts a full hour; thereafter, a standard 15-min. exam/visit costs $70. In other words, I'm paying as much for a pet's exam as some people pay for a human medical exam. It's just shocking--and cost prohibitive.


Jenk
 

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