Most Expensive BP Vet Bill?

[Physician&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.


-----that being said----

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.

Yes, we all want to keep our little hoard of textbooks, notes, research papers, and the like all around us in the hopes we will be able to function half as well as someone formally trained...but in the end that causes one to become the worse kind of dependent, that is, too dependent upon oneself...I think we all make that mistake at some point in some way, shape, or form. You might as well get out there mate, forget about the "kits" and learn formally if it means that much to you. Yes, I know, it's a lot more of a hassle...being autistic and an introvert by nature my first few years of high school were $hit, but it gets better...it gets even easier in college when you can just study all day and not look like a prick...but do not neglect to learn the most important rule, one I know for a fact I wish was made obvious to me by insight much sooner rather than later, support your damn classmates/colleagues/teachers/companions/etc...even if there ideas weird or totally disagree with what you find, it sounds weird but seriously support the people that you have come to love even if you hate each other...there is nothing wrong with being against the grain within reason of course, but outright not supporting your friends...that's low man and I am probably the most guilty of it in the board right now. Then of course you just have the spend about a decade learning how how to learn for an eternity, but it's worth it in my romantic mind, of course we're all bound to hit the ground a few times in our quest to reach the sky. Just pay the damn money to the vet, we are all in this together, it's all paper anyway.

Oh $hit...I just de-railed the thread and mis interpreted a post...this is what happens when you have been studying calc & bio for two days straight and 4 hours of sleep...I am running on sweet tea, Red Bull, & dreams so sorry about this one guys.