Vets!

[D.P.]

teachers are on very low wages for what they do imo

what expensive drugs are needed for stitches ? especially with small animals like cats where dosages will be tiny anyway

i dont even think i can believe that 30k for 80hours a week either. seems outrageously low.

"what expensive drugs are needed for stitches "
Anesthetics, anti-biotics, possibly other drugs - i'm not a vet. Let alone fixed fees for handling the cat. You know, a vet is a bussiness, not a charity. It cost money to rent or build the hospital, there are other staff wages (nurse, secratery/ies, etc), insurance costs, heating, cleaning.

No one is saying Vetinary fees are cheap. The point is you are paying for a highly specialised service with the most highly trained staff who have studied the hardest degree you can do in the UK. None of the staff make much money when it is all said and done.
70-80 hours weeks are the norm to get to 30-35K.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

It costs me £35 for an equine vet to drive out to the yard where my horse is stabled and give the horse its vaccination. The other day I drove the dog to the normal vets and they charged me £50 for a vaccination. WTF!

 

[Greebo]

teachers are on very low wages for what they do imo

what expensive drugs are needed for stitches ? especially with small animals like cats where dosages will be tiny anyway

i dont even think i can believe that 30k for 80hours a week either. seems outrageously low.

It's true. My other half used to be a vet in practice and wages are low. It's 80+ hours if you count time on call and okay some nights she never got called out but there were other times when she had worked all day, all night on emergencies and then all the next day too.

They have expensive equipment to buy like xray machines, endoscopes etc so overheads are large.

Small animal vets get paid more, around £40k, as they can see more animals per hour/day than a farm/equine vet can as they have to travel a lot.

However, considering the time needed to qualify, the starting salary of around £24k is one of the poorest for a professional. One of her mates at Uni was a dentist and when she qualified she was on £30k and has always got paid £10k to £20k more than my gf and as a dentist she only workd 36 hours per week.

 

[fadetoblack]

It costs me £35 for an equine vet to drive out to the yard where my horse is stabled and give the horse its vaccination. The other day I drove the dog to the normal vets and they charged me £50 for a vaccination. WTF!

That's simple use the horse vet ask him/her to bring dog vaccination out with them next time??

 

["andy"]

It's true. My other half used to be a vet in practice and wages are low. It's 80+ hours if you count time on call and okay some nights she never got called out but there were other times when she had worked all day, all night on emergencies and then all the next day too.

They have expensive equipment to buy like xray machines, endoscopes etc so overheads are large.

Small animal vets get paid more, around £40k, as they can see more animals per hour/day than a farm/equine vet can as they have to travel a lot.

However, considering the time needed to qualify, the starting salary of around £24k is one of the poorest for a professional. One of her mates at Uni was a dentist and when she qualified she was on £30k and has always got paid £10k to £20k more than my gf and as a dentist she only workd 36 hours per week.

sounds ridiculous. you could nearly earn as much stacking shelves if your doing that many hours :/

 

[Mp4]

Well i phone PP (Pet Plan) just for piece of mind! They where 100% behind the whole vet thing and said for us just to send all the documents and they will do the rest & whatever happends even if more stitches are needed etc or anything else goes wrong in the next 2 weeks they will back it up. As we do pay £45 per month for it ... (2 cats) BUT its just finding the money in the first place to do it!

 

[sunama]

My animals are like my children, I would never take a risk with their life like that and I find it quite sickening tbh that you could gamble with something elses life.

Remember, an animal is not your child. End of story.

In England, many people seem to place a higher value on animals than they do human beings, which is plain wrong.

If the guy could not physically afford to have his pet treated and putting it down was the only option, then thats life. It's harsh I know, but then so is living with the reality that we are not all wealthy with an unlimited budget to spend on our pets.

 

[_dogma_]

Remember, an animal is not your child. End of story.

In England, many people seem to place a higher value on animals than they do human beings, which is plain wrong.

If the guy could not physically afford to have his pet treated and putting it down was the only option, then thats life. It's harsh I know, but then so is living with the reality that we are not all wealthy with an unlimited budget to spend on our pets.

If you can't afford to treat the pet in case insurance doesn't pay out you shouldn't own it.

I don't want kids so my pets are my kids. I do place a higher value on animals than humans.

 

[sunama]

If you can't afford to treat the pet in case insurance doesn't pay out you shouldn't own it.

So are you suggesting that if you don't have over £2-£3k constantly laying around in your bank account (to cover vet bills), you shouldn't own a pet? Do bear in mind that many pet ailments can easily hit the £4k mark.

I don't want kids so my pets are my kids. I do place a higher value on animals than humans.

I don't want kids either. I have 2 cats. But even I can understand that humans are superior in every conceivable way, when compared with animals. Animals are superior and that is a fact. If it came to choice between saving 100 animals and 1 human, the human would almost certainly be given priority.

Perhaps something in your life has transpired that has forced you to place animals above humans, but you need to get a grip - think logically and not with your emotions and you will agree that humans should be valued higher than animals.

 

[Participant]

My older a Sister is a Vet, my younger in 3rd yera at the Royal Dick (Edinburgh vet school)

I assumed that was slang but Googled it anyway...it's really called that! *Snigger*

 

[Vixen]

Well i phone PP (Pet Plan) just for piece of mind! They where 100% behind the whole vet thing and said for us just to send all the documents and they will do the rest & whatever happends even if more stitches are needed etc or anything else goes wrong in the next 2 weeks they will back it up. As we do pay £45 per month for it ... (2 cats) BUT its just finding the money in the first place to do it!

Glad to hear you've got it sorted with your insurance company. £45 seems like a lot for 2 cats, I was paying £25 for mine until I gave up my insurance at the start of the year. I now pay the equivalent of the insurance premium into a savings account each month and use that for any vet bills the cats incur. It's better for me because now annual checkups are covered with that money and I don't have to worry about insurance excesses.

 

[Mp4]

Glad to hear you've got it sorted with your insurance company. £45 seems like a lot for 2 cats, I was paying £25 for mine until I gave up my insurance at the start of the year. I now pay the equivalent of the insurance premium into a savings account each month and use that for any vet bills the cats incur. It's better for me because now annual checkups are covered with that money and I don't have to worry about insurance excesses.

£25 per cat , but i think the male cat is more expensive per month + its the supercat one , best one they offer

https://www.petplan.co.uk/therightcover/cat.asp

 

[I get around]

Hate the fact you have to pay and then claim it back with pet insurance, my parents had to borrow money off my grandparents for like a £600 bill. It's stupid the way it works.