Most Expensive BP Vet Bill?

I took my 3 month old baby BP for his first vet exam yesterday, mainly because he had a rectal prolapse that retracted back in by itself (I helped to push the last bit of remaining tissue back in). He also had mites and was a bit small.

I paid:
$84 for initial exam
$48 fecal exam
$40 ivomec injection
$15 panacur oral meds

For a total of $210 after taxes :O I do admit I felt gouged for that price but in the end, I just want my baby to be healthy. He was the closest vet that could see him at the time I was available because I had exams in the morning.

People take their cats and dogs for yearly exams and it doesn't make sense to me that reptile owners don't take their snakes which live twice as long as cats/dogs.

What is the average/most expensive BP vet bill you've ever paid?

Wait isn't Ivomec dangerous to Reptiles??

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Originally Posted by led-zep

Wait isn't Ivomec dangerous to Reptiles??

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Going into the clinic, I do not know much about reptile medicine... At the time, I trusted his judge because he is a professional after all. I did Google ivomec afterwards and read that its controversial to give to reptiles. :/

$84 for an exam? Thats a little high imo. Usual is around $40-50. I paid more on a friend's bp that had an RI though. I think it was around $400 with take home injections for 2 wks. It's been a few years since I took that one in though. I didn't want it to pass the ri to my girl, and we were cleaning my friends cages then inwas coming home and cleaning my girls. In the end he lost that snake because of not cleaning more thoroughly. It was after I gave the injections every day.

Wow, I only had to pay $70 to have my cat neutered! Luckily my vet is in business to save animals & not make money.

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Originally Posted by kittymeow

I took my 3 month old baby BP for his first vet exam yesterday, mainly because he had a rectal prolapse that retracted back in by itself (I helped to push the last bit of remaining tissue back in). He also had mites and was a bit small.

I paid:
$84 for initial exam
$48 fecal exam
$40 ivomec injection
$15 panacur oral meds

For a total of $210 after taxes :O I do admit I felt gouged for that price but in the end, I just want my baby to be healthy. He was the closest vet that could see him at the time I was available because I had exams in the morning.

People take their cats and dogs for yearly exams and it doesn't make sense to me that reptile owners don't take their snakes which live twice as long as cats/dogs.

What is the average/most expensive BP vet bill you've ever paid?

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My most expensive BP bill was about the same as yours. Except it was a rescue with a respiratory infection that needed a culture and antibiotics.
My initial exam was $60 and that's on the higher spectrum of exam prices for exotics. Your fecal exam is pretty high in my opinion too. It usually runs $10-15. I go the a vet school to get my animals treated and they tend to be more expensive than private practices. When I went to a private practice for the same treatment(minus the culture) with a different pair of rescues, it ran about $70 total including exam and antibiotics for two snakes.

thats overpriced.

for example, i know in Germany you can buy fecal exam kits for maybe 10-20 dollars depending on brand. they contain instructions on how to take a sample, an adressed envelope, something to put the sample in, and a coupon or something for the lab expense and a form to fill out. You buy the kit, take the sample, mail it to the lab, and they will do the testing and mail you the results back. real lab work. and the price of the package covers it all.

and thats exactly how vets do it, the racket is that vets get this stuff cheaper and often only vets have access to these products. many labs only deal with professionals and just dont produce such kits.

but with that in mind i know whats going on when a fecal exam costs 48 dollars: big time money making. and the injection and oral meds are also questionable. i mean, if there is no infection or something and you worry about vitamins and nutrients, just put a pill in the mouth of the next frozen thawed meal. or if you feed live, there are vitamin pills that rhodents will eat like candy. and a can of provent-a-mite deals with mites and lasts an eternity, pills or injections are unnecessary when its just mites.


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a while back the issue with the female deserts that you cannot breed got me wondering how much it costs to get a female BP sterilized. So i made a thread asking if someone knows how its done and what it costs, and the prices i got back were in the 4 digits, many significantly above 1000 dollars. turns out its a major surgery that is really difficult.

right around 1100 dollars on my daughters tegu. good thing we had a good year selling ball pythons!

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Originally Posted by kittymeow

People take their cats and dogs for yearly exams and it doesn't make sense to me that reptile owners don't take their snakes which live twice as long as cats/dogs.

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Completely off base in my opinion...you're comparing apples to hammers...if your husbandry is on par, what would you expect to get out of a vet visit???

edit: This applies to healthy captive bred balls...not imports...

One of my cats cost $150 to get fixed and from my experiences 40-50 $ is the average vet bill. $210 isn't horrible,but maybe for what you got done and what he charged you,could have probably been $30 cheaper