Prices For Vaccinations

[wagsalot]

I just paid $140 for the dog and cat. I think they are the same price each.

[Bullbreedlover]

What do people pay for titre testing? It is too late to ring the vet tonight. will do it tomorrow.

I will also check out the Gatton vet where I took all the donations to to see what they charge.

I dont want to pay a consult fee for everyone of them. They dont need it. I can check their vitals myself and feel for lumps and bumps.

will check out greyhound breeders Nekhbet. I know one very close by.

[ozjen]

Perhaps if you have a mobile vet in your area, you could get a group of people together who have dogs due their vaccination and negotiate a group deal.

[Lady Flying Furball]

My local vet is going to charge me $82.00 for each dog including the consult charge.

Yep, I pay about this for C5 with a consult included in that price. My vet wants to check the dog's health...

Edited February 9, 2011 by FlyingFurball

[Bullbreedlover]

I have a vet to call tomorrow. Comes recommended

Edited February 9, 2011 by stonebridge

[whippets]

I pay $20 a dog for c3. I get pups vacc and microchipped at the same time and that is $45 for the two.

[Kirty]

OMG I can't believe the prices some people pay!! Wow!! I get my vaccs at cost now through work, but the MOST I have ever paid for a C3 (which is all I use) was $42 and I thought that was steep! LOL! My foster cats cost $16.50 each for a killed F3. That includes a check up as well, but not a consult.

[Bullbreedlover]

OMG I can't believe the prices some people pay!! Wow!! I get my vaccs at cost now through work, but the MOST I have ever paid for a C3 (which is all I use) was $42 and I thought that was steep! LOL! My foster cats cost $16.50 each for a killed F3. That includes a check up as well, but not a consult.

I know!!!

It is daylight friggin robbery

[stormie]

OMG I can't believe the prices some people pay!! Wow!! I get my vaccs at cost now through work, but the MOST I have ever paid for a C3 (which is all I use) was $42 and I thought that was steep! LOL! My foster cats cost $16.50 each for a killed F3. That includes a check up as well, but not a consult.

I know!!!

It is daylight friggin robbery

how is it robbery? the vaccine calls for a check-up before being administered. that involves the vet using their time and knowledge to determine an animals health which surely is worth something and shouldn't be done for free. Then there's the cost of the actual vaccine. Plus the syringes, needles, water for injection that's used. We probably pocket about $6 profit on the actual vaccine. The consultation fee pays the Vet's and Nurses wages and goes towards basic running of the clinic.

We don't use killed vaccines because of the reactions they're known to have. We have 4 different types of vaccines for dogs, to cater for every possible want. Some may want the 'annual' to be used triennially, some want an intranasal KC, some want early finishing puppy shots etc etc. So this means we only buy a box of 20 at a time, of each type, usually only every 3-4 weeks. We could just pick the one vaccine and buy it in a box of 100 which would reduce the cost, but that takes away peoples choice, which is often what people want.

So what are we supposed to do? Should the vet give the vaccine off label and not check the animals first? Should he check them but do it for free? Should we be just charging everyone cost price plus gst for the vaccines and essentially the Vet pay for it for people out of their own pocket?

DOL people all seem to mostly be pretty on the ball with their animals, but I can tell you many 'regular' people aren't. It's often not until the consult at vacc time that when you query things like thirst, appetite, mouth etc that people tend to say 'oh you know what, now that you mention it....' and turns out the dog has a problem.

One of our really lovely clients is a Dentist. Every time she comes in she's blown away at how cheap she thinks we are, because she's comparing it to her own profession.

My car's 6monthly service costs me about $300 each time. It's due for its big 200,000 one in 5000k and they've told me to do the works, to put aside about $1500. This is just changing oils, fan belts, timing belts etc. Most of it is labour.

Yet for less than this price, we would repair a dog's ruptured cruciate, have it on the top pain relief, fluids and keep it in hospital for 3 days.

It just cost me $370 to see a specialist for 15mins and have bloods taken. Not only that, they couldn't take the blood there and then; I had to go to a pathology place in my lunch break to have it done. So $250 to see the Specialist for a consult. Yet for this price, we will pre-med a dog, catheterize it, give him a GA, put him on a $10k anaesthetic monitor and perform sterile surgery.

Edited February 9, 2011 by stormie

[Kirty]

I don't think they should be free at all, but I think $90+ is a high price. The vets in this area charge $40-$50 for a standard consult so add in a vaccine at $20 and that seems more fair. Especially when the *vast* majority of vets do a 30 second 'check up', vacc the dog, and then you're out the door (not saying your clinic is like that stormie - perhaps your clinic gives better service and hence the higher rate). But hey, if people will pay $90+ for a vaccine then why shouldn't vets charge that?

[Aziah]

Between $22 and $42 depending on if it's a litter or more than one adult.

+ 1

[stormie]

I don't think they should be free at all, but I think $90+ is a high price. The vets in this area charge $40-$50 for a standard consult so add in a vaccine at $20 and that seems more fair. Especially when the *vast* majority of vets do a 30 second 'check up', vacc the dog, and then you're out the door (not saying your clinic is like that stormie - perhaps your clinic gives better service and hence the higher rate). But hey, if people will pay $90+ for a vaccine then why shouldn't vets charge that?

But that $20 will only cover one vaccine, eg C3, not a C5. We couldn't even buy the two for that cost price. Each individual annual C3 costs us about $11 EACH. The triennial costs us about $15-16 I think. So add that to our consult fee of about $56, and for a C3 you're looking at about $67 - $72 for a C3 vaccination at cost price. Considering our 'retail' price is about $78 - $89 for a C3, I don't think we're really making that much?

And as I said, this is just a C3. Add another of the same approx onto this again for KC and a bit more if you want intranasal KC.

eta - I guess I am just lucky I work with an awesome awesome vet who really isn't it in for the money and I forget that there are still plenty of dodgies who are. It gets a bit disheartening sometimes when you work so hard to build up your new clinic to be everything people would want it to be, only to read day in day out that vets are only in it for the money, robbing clients etc. Just sometimes feels like you're fighting a losing battle and whether it's really worth it reading topics like this.

Edited February 9, 2011 by stormie

[Bullbreedlover]

how is it robbery? the vaccine calls for a check-up before being administered. that involves the vet using their time and knowledge to determine an animals health which surely is worth something and shouldn't be done for free. Then there's the cost of the actual vaccine. Plus the syringes, needles, water for injection that's used. We probably pocket about $6 profit on the actual vaccine. The consultation fee pays the Vet's and Nurses wages and goes towards basic running of the clinic.

So what are we supposed to do? Should the vet give the vaccine off label and not check the animals first? Should he check them but do it for free? Should we be just charging everyone cost price plus gst for the vaccines and essentially the Vet pay for it for people out of their own pocket?

DOL people all seem to mostly be pretty on the ball with their animals, but I can tell you many 'regular' people aren't. It's often not until the consult at vacc time that when you query things like thirst, appetite, mouth etc that people tend to say 'oh you know what, now that you mention it....' and turns out the dog has a problem.

Stormie

I am not saying that people shoudnt have their animals checked over. especially the general public.

I know how much the vaccines cost. Simple as that. I am not entering into a discussion about that.

All I wanted to do is find out what other people pay to have their pets vaccinated. because I feel that not all is as it seems.

Yes I know vets have overheads. Heck I used to work in a vet cub that was small and large animal.

But why can I get a price from a vet in Brisbane which is half the price from a vet who is local?

Does that say something?

Oh and by the way. With the locality of this vet, parvo is rampant at the moment and has been for quite awhile out this way.

Does that say something or what??

I dont want to pay for a check up when I know my own dogs. All I want is to vaccinate them. All the hype of giving them a check over does not hold much credit with me because I KNOW what is involved but I am sick of getting ripped off.

eta

Stormie I know where you are coming from but hey if you dont like the thread then dont reply in it.

simple as that.

Edited February 9, 2011 by stonebridge

[Danois]

I dont want to pay for a check up when I know my own dogs. All I want is to vaccinate them. All the hype of giving them a check over does not hold much credit with me because I KNOW what is involved but I am sick of getting ripped off.

You might not want to pay for a check up but the Vet has a duty to do the check up otherwise, as stormie said, he is administering the vax off label.

Why would you ask a service provider to short cut their professional obligations?

If you think you're being ripped off then find a new vet. My consults for a vax are at least 15 mins as my dog is gone over thoroughly.

[stormie]

I don't doubt that you know your animals Stonebridge, but surely there are times where you respect someones profession and let them do what they studied hard for? It cost me $38.50 for someone to take my blood the other day which I could very well have done myself, but I accept it's that person's job, paying their wages and just suck it up.

[Bullbreedlover]

I don't think they should be free at all, but I think $90+ is a high price. The vets in this area charge $40-$50 for a standard consult so add in a vaccine at $20 and that seems more fair. Especially when the *vast* majority of vets do a 30 second 'check up', vacc the dog, and then you're out the door (not saying your clinic is like that stormie - perhaps your clinic gives better service and hence the higher rate). But hey, if people will pay $90+ for a vaccine then why shouldn't vets charge that?

But that $20 will only cover one vaccine, eg C3, not a C5. We couldn't even buy the two for that cost price. Each individual annual C3 costs us about $11 EACH. The triennial costs us about $15-16 I think. So add that to our consult fee of about $56, and for a C3 you're looking at about $67 - $72 for a C3 vaccination at cost price. Considering our 'retail' price is about $78 - $89 for a C3, I don't think we're really making that much?

And as I said, this is just a C3. Add another of the same approx onto this again for KC and a bit more if you want intranasal KC.

eta - I guess I am just lucky I work with an awesome awesome vet who really isn't it in for the money and I forget that there are still plenty of dodgies who are. It gets a bit disheartening sometimes when you work so hard to build up your new clinic to be everything people would want it to be, only to read day in day out that vets are only in it for the money, robbing clients etc. Just sometimes feels like you're fighting a losing battle and whether it's really worth it reading topics like this.

So if I bring say 3 dogs into your vet surgery will your vet usually charge each dog a consult fee? Which is included into the price of the vac in most cases.

I just got told tonight of a friend who went to have their pups vaccinated at a vet and paid $180.00 each

Needless to say she almost had kittens

Edited February 9, 2011 by stonebridge

[Danois]

Oh and by the way. With the locality of this vet, parvo is rampant at the moment and has been for quite awhile out this way.

Does that say something or what??

Only thing it says is that there are obviously people in your area who are not being responsible dog owners and not vaxing their dogs for parvo. Every responsible dog owner I know, knows that vaxing is just one of those things you do regardless of costs as it is in the interests of your dog's health.

Do you think it says something else??

[stormie]

I don't think they should be free at all, but I think $90+ is a high price. The vets in this area charge $40-$50 for a standard consult so add in a vaccine at $20 and that seems more fair. Especially when the *vast* majority of vets do a 30 second 'check up', vacc the dog, and then you're out the door (not saying your clinic is like that stormie - perhaps your clinic gives better service and hence the higher rate). But hey, if people will pay $90+ for a vaccine then why shouldn't vets charge that?

But that $20 will only cover one vaccine, eg C3, not a C5. We couldn't even buy the two for that cost price. Each individual annual C3 costs us about $11 EACH. The triennial costs us about $15-16 I think. So add that to our consult fee of about $56, and for a C3 you're looking at about $67 - $72 for a C3 vaccination at cost price. Considering our 'retail' price is about $78 - $89 for a C3, I don't think we're really making that much?

And as I said, this is just a C3. Add another of the same approx onto this again for KC and a bit more if you want intranasal KC.

eta - I guess I am just lucky I work with an awesome awesome vet who really isn't it in for the money and I forget that there are still plenty of dodgies who are. It gets a bit disheartening sometimes when you work so hard to build up your new clinic to be everything people would want it to be, only to read day in day out that vets are only in it for the money, robbing clients etc. Just sometimes feels like you're fighting a losing battle and whether it's really worth it reading topics like this.

So if I bring say 3 dogs into your vet surgery will your vet usually charge each dog a consult fee? Which is included into the price of the vac in most cases.

I just got told tonight of a friend who went to have their pups vaccinated at a vet and paid $180.00 each

Needless to say she almost had kittens

Yes, if they were adults. Each animal would be treated as an individual, as if they were owned by 3 separate people having 3 separate consultations. We would book you a 45min time slot, which is 3 consultations. You would get a discount on the second and 3rd dog's consult fee, though.

If they were a litter of pups, we'd charge one long consultation fee (which is about 1 1/2 consults) and then just charge the price of the vaccine for each puppy.

[Bullbreedlover]

I don't doubt that you know your animals Stonebridge, but surely there are times where you respect someones profession and let them do what they studied hard for? It cost me $38.50 for someone to take my blood the other day which I could very well have done myself, but I accept it's that person's job, paying their wages and just suck it up.

I do respect vets Stormie. Always have done, to a point.

But I dont just suck it up.

To set in my ways to do that.

I have vaccinated dogs myself back home. I know of other breeders who have vaccinated their own dogs. Does that require a check up. Of course it does. Our own check ups.

And not every vet should be a vet.

[Bullbreedlover]

Oh and by the way. With the locality of this vet, parvo is rampant at the moment and has been for quite awhile out this way.

Does that say something or what??

Only thing it says is that there are obviously people in your area who are not being responsible dog owners and not vaxing their dogs for parvo. Every responsible dog owner I know, knows that vaxing is just one of those things you do regardless of costs as it is in the interests of your dog's health.

Do you think it says something else??

Of course it says something!

It also says that in one area where there is parvo rampant the price is x amount.

In another area where a vet doesnt rip people off but there will still be cases of parvo the price is xy amount.

xy amount being half the price of x amount

Go figure