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08-30-2013, 03:40 AM
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#31
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Derbyshire, UK
Posts: 100
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Hmm, as with any pet the costs can vary hugely from animal to animal. Our four hams all came from a well-known UK pet store and three of them are, touch wood, fine. The fourth, a little black chap, didn't seem to put on weight like the others and I could only see huge lower teeth at the bottom of his jaw. He also seemed desperate to drink but only got the water down him. An initial visit to the vet was frightening; he has a deformed jaw and had 1cm of tooth removed from the bottom; the top teeth appeared to be non-existent. The check-up a week later required anaesthetic and further clipping; the top teeth actually grow straight back into his upper palate. The vet has tried to clip them back, but was limited with the time that he was under anaesthetic ... £60 and counting ... He'll need monthly trims, if he survives long term - the prognosis isn't encouraging, tbh.
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01-22-2014, 12:52 AM
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#32
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Land of Happy Hamsters!
Posts: 283
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: UK
Vet Fund : £1358 (I have a lot of other pets and horses) (£100 per month gets topped up)
Number of Hamsters: 7 (and over 40 other animals!)
Previous Costs: Consulations, Medication, Tumours Removed, PTS , and a range of other things.
Small animal Consultation : £25
Follow up consultation: £25 (you just have to get another appointment)
Consultation plus antibiotics : Must be bought separately, Usually around £10
Consultation plus eye ointments : £36
Consultation followed by Lump removal under GA: £20 (I don't understand how the consultation is £25 yet this is £20 but Minnie had a cancerous lump and her operation was £20)
PTS : £18
Private cremation with casket: £110
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05-28-2014, 10:32 AM
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#33
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Posts: 38
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: Uk
Fund: none as such, but we've got savings
Number of Hamsters: 1
Previous costs:
Initial consultation and meds - £33
Castration (poor boy) - £85
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05-28-2014, 10:52 AM
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#34
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Strong Brew Hamstery
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,282
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: Ontario, Canada
Vet Fund : $500
Number of Hamsters: 5
Previous Costs: (I only know the prices as I've asked, none of my pets, save Cora, have seen the vet thus far, and Cora is seeing them for free because of her health guarantee - I may ask how much it would have costed us if not)
Small animal Consultation : $85
PTS : $85
Nail/Teeth Clipping : $27 / hamster
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05-29-2014, 12:09 PM
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#35
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Gloucestershire, England
Posts: 61
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: Gloucestershire, England
Vet Fund : £350 (I have other animals who also have insurance)
Number of Hamsters: 1
Previous Costs: currently £18.45 for Boris Johnson so far, thousands on my one dog (after that we insured our other dog & cats lol!)
Small animal Consultation : £15
7 days of baytril & anti-inflammatories: £3.45
Nail/Teeth Clipping : £4 as done by nurse so no consultation fee
Emergency fee: £90 including consultation
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08-13-2014, 05:18 PM
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#36
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Newborn Pup
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Canada
Posts: 39
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Cost of taking your hamster to a vet
Hey,
I just wanted to let people whose hamsters get sick what my experience has been with taking them to a vet. Anyways
A check up and medication for two weeks costs me $65 Cdn
A check up and nail trimming costs me $35 Cdn
I have taken my hamsters to the vet for infections where the intestines were coming out, or an infection where my hamster was bleeding everywhere in the cage. The vet said it was a large amount of blood.
My hamsters are Dwarf Hamsters (Pure bread Cambell Hamsters; Blue Mottled, Argente Platinum and Opal. My blue mottled recently died.)
As for size my Argente Platinum - Goldie is 56g
As for size of my Opal - Explorer she was 55g but now shes probably 75g
As for size of my Blue Mottled - Patches she was 40g (she was tiny)
My two hamsters which were 3, live in 4 houses and ill buy more later when I like more. They used to fight but they also sleep together when cold and take care of each other when one is sick or injured.
Mod note : Please can you stick to the protocol in future Glenn
Last edited by souffle; 08-13-2014 at 11:41 PM.
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08-15-2014, 09:48 AM
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#37
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Strong Brew Hamstery
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,282
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hekomi
Area: Ontario, Canada
Vet Fund : $500
Number of Hamsters: 5
Previous Costs: (I only know the prices as I've asked, none of my pets, save Cora, have seen the vet thus far, and Cora is seeing them for free because of her health guarantee - I may ask how much it would have costed us if not)
Small animal Consultation : $85
PTS : $85
Nail/Teeth Clipping : $27 / hamster
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Adding on:
Metacam: $45
Baytril: $45
Parasite Test: $60
Follow-up: $60
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09-05-2014, 11:02 AM
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#38
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Hamster Pup
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Texas, USA
Posts: 91
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: Texas, USA
Vet Fund : $3000 (this fund is also for my birds and dog)
Number of Hamsters: 1
Previous Costs:
Small Mammal Exam: $68
Fecal Float/Fecal Smear: $69
Skin Scraping: $58
Ringworm Culture: $68.50
Two Broad Spectrum Antibiotics:
Enrofloxacin (¼ oz 50mg/ml suspension): $20.60
Flagyl (¼ oz): $24.53
External Charges:
Shipping for Culture: $16
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11-04-2014, 12:10 PM
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#39
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: SE London
Posts: 290
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
The Blue Cross also do a system for those on benefits. They have travelling vans that park up in certain areas every week to give clinics, as well as their hospitals.
I hope it's ok to put their website in showing their hospital locations etc:
Blue Cross - Veterinary services
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11-04-2014, 07:19 PM
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#40
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I LOVE FURBABIES
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: USA
Posts: 3,043
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Re: Vet Care - how much should I budget?
Area: Alabama, USA
Vet Fund: $3,500 ( plus) 2 credit cards, only used for Vet care.
(The fund is also for my 2 dogs, and the dogs I foster, as well as my hamsters.)
Number of hamsters: 2
Previous Hamster Vet Costs:
Small Animal Exam: $85
Small Animal Exam: $85
follow up exam: $58
Diastix test: $25
Nail trim x 2 @ $30 ea; $60
Last edited by Teddy001; 11-04-2014 at 09:31 PM.
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