Seriously, they just want your money. Anyone shammed into paying those kind of prices for their services and rude treatment has clearly not shopped around.\r
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My boyfriend and I's cat became very ill one night and had to be taken in for emergency services. The cost just to see him was $100, which was the typical going price for the other emergency vets in town so we went with it. Turns out his urinary tract was clogged and he needed it to be unclogged immediately, as well as go through a day's worth of electrolyte treatments and get a potential surgery. We didn't know much about this problem at the time and were quite panicked. We're both in college and can afford small luxuries for our animals but nothing prepared us for the list of prices we were about to be given.\r
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To remove the clog and run some blood tests- $500\r
For 24 hours of electrolyte treatments- $2000 minimum\r
For the Perineal urethrostomy (PU) surgery to prevent the clog from happening again- ~$3000\r
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Needless to say we
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