Post photos of your dogs (Vol 5)
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119 said:
s6boy said:
He's a flat coated retriever our first non black one.
We have two liver flatties and they are total f
king nutters.
Yup, nutters describes them perfectly, but such fun!!
119 said:
s6boy said:
He's a flat coated retriever our first non black one.
We have two liver flatties and they are total fking nutters.They take a long time to mature, and there is alays a puppy hiding in an adult dog.
We still laugh at the antics of ours, and that’s 25 years ago
119 said:
Absolutely not.
Kidding, Yes we knew about the temperament and personality beforehand and after having a retriever/GS and everything else cross, we were looking for something less ‘challenging’.
Lovely dogs!
Had to travel to find them though as like you say, liver flatties were almost unheard of until recently.
We went from Essex to Fraserburgh for Archie. Worth every mile Kidding, Yes we knew about the temperament and personality beforehand and after having a retriever/GS and everything else cross, we were looking for something less ‘challenging’.
Lovely dogs!
Had to travel to find them though as like you say, liver flatties were almost unheard of until recently.
turbobloke said:
Gladers01 said:
MikeHo said:
Gladers01 said:
moorx said:
Bloody hell! 
Can we see a (non X-ray) image of the mad whippet in question please?
I was looking after my neighbour's Whippet last week and she takes off like a Cheetah on peds but has a good recall fortunately. How did it happen, was s/he attempting the land speed record ? Can we see a (non X-ray) image of the mad whippet in question please?
He's recovering ok, had 6 weeks in a crate and now on 'gentle' exercise if there is such a thing with a whippet
Feeling sorry for himself !
His good side:
So far so good, one more xray to check the bone is getting there.
Feel totally buttf
ked by the vets but they are all owned by "big business" now !Not all - do your research.
Just call all the vets within range and ask what fee they charge for a simple consultation, no tests no drugs.
That will give you an indication.
We recently moved from £65 fee to £39.50 fee. Drugs are also cheaper, as are tests.
Three surgery small local practice.
If your pet ends up on regular medication, price check what it would cost from Pet Drugs Online and then see about a private prescription if that works out cheaper. My previous vet charged about £20 for a prescription, new vet £18, but the previous one would only issue for 3 months, new vet 6 months.
I never found out what the Vetoryl would have cost me from the Vet, because the individual vet I was seeing was so annoyed at what they were charging that she gave me private prescriptions from day one.
Strangely, she now works at my new vet, because she prefers their financial ethics.
Obviously an ethics girl
.
Just call all the vets within range and ask what fee they charge for a simple consultation, no tests no drugs.
That will give you an indication.
We recently moved from £65 fee to £39.50 fee. Drugs are also cheaper, as are tests.
Three surgery small local practice.
If your pet ends up on regular medication, price check what it would cost from Pet Drugs Online and then see about a private prescription if that works out cheaper. My previous vet charged about £20 for a prescription, new vet £18, but the previous one would only issue for 3 months, new vet 6 months.
I never found out what the Vetoryl would have cost me from the Vet, because the individual vet I was seeing was so annoyed at what they were charging that she gave me private prescriptions from day one.
Strangely, she now works at my new vet, because she prefers their financial ethics.
Obviously an ethics girl
.
QBee said:
Not all - do your research.
Just call all the vets within range and ask what fee they charge for a simple consultation, no tests no drugs.
That will give you an indication.
We recently moved from £65 fee to £39.50 fee. Drugs are also cheaper, as are tests.
Three surgery small local practice.
If your pet ends up on regular medication, price check what it would cost from Pet Drugs Online and then see about a private prescription if that works out cheaper. My previous vet charged about £20 for a prescription, new vet £18, but the previous one would only issue for 3 months, new vet 6 months.
I never found out what the Vetoryl would have cost me from the Vet, because the individual vet I was seeing was so annoyed at what they were charging that she gave me private prescriptions from day one.
Strangely, she now works at my new vet, because she prefers their financial ethics.
Obviously an ethics girl
.
Unfortunately we ended up at the nearest referral vet :|Just call all the vets within range and ask what fee they charge for a simple consultation, no tests no drugs.
That will give you an indication.
We recently moved from £65 fee to £39.50 fee. Drugs are also cheaper, as are tests.
Three surgery small local practice.
If your pet ends up on regular medication, price check what it would cost from Pet Drugs Online and then see about a private prescription if that works out cheaper. My previous vet charged about £20 for a prescription, new vet £18, but the previous one would only issue for 3 months, new vet 6 months.
I never found out what the Vetoryl would have cost me from the Vet, because the individual vet I was seeing was so annoyed at what they were charging that she gave me private prescriptions from day one.
Strangely, she now works at my new vet, because she prefers their financial ethics.
Obviously an ethics girl
.
They are part of IVC now.
QBee said:
The capsules we have (Vetoryl) come in 10, 30 and 60 mg as far as I remember.
The capsules are virtually the same price per capsule regardless of dose.
So unless your insurance covers it, you have to hope the correct dose won't mean you end up needing to be giving say 20 mg twice a day (ie 4 capsules a day) or 50 mg twice a day (6 capsules)
We have a 17 kg working cocker spaniel, and anyone who has horses will know that you dose an animal by body weight.
We started on 10 mg twice a day,which moved to 30mg once a day, but her correct dose seems to be 60mg, given as 30 mg twice a day.
I asked if we could give her 60 mg once a day, but the vet, who I trust, said that we had to give the lower dose twice a day, 12 hours apart, to keep the drug level in her blood stream more constant. So it is hidden in her food, at 6am and 6pm.
60 capsules ( a month's supply at 2 a day) costs £104 bought online.
She's 16 next month and doing much better on the Vetoryl (plus Yumove twice a day for her hips)
There is a 5mg dose too.The capsules are virtually the same price per capsule regardless of dose.
So unless your insurance covers it, you have to hope the correct dose won't mean you end up needing to be giving say 20 mg twice a day (ie 4 capsules a day) or 50 mg twice a day (6 capsules)
We have a 17 kg working cocker spaniel, and anyone who has horses will know that you dose an animal by body weight.
We started on 10 mg twice a day,which moved to 30mg once a day, but her correct dose seems to be 60mg, given as 30 mg twice a day.
I asked if we could give her 60 mg once a day, but the vet, who I trust, said that we had to give the lower dose twice a day, 12 hours apart, to keep the drug level in her blood stream more constant. So it is hidden in her food, at 6am and 6pm.
60 capsules ( a month's supply at 2 a day) costs £104 bought online.
She's 16 next month and doing much better on the Vetoryl (plus Yumove twice a day for her hips)
Murph started at 15mg, which meant a 10mg tablet and a 5mg tablet daily, he has them in his morning food. For reasons I don't understand this meant 2 prescription costs, £13 for the first prescription and £10 for the second.. First bill was £125, though we worked out if we did it online, with prescription costs it would be around the £100 mark. We decided not to go down the online route until we'd stabilised the dose.
Vet has now decided to double the dose to 30mg, which reduced the costs a fair bit. One tablet, one prescription and I was charged £87 yesterday when I collected that. Again, online will bring it down to about £70 we think.
Back in next week to see how he's doing on that.
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