I took her in to have her put to sleep, actually. He aspirated it, said "no need to put a good rat down, I'll can just pop that out!"Originally Posted by JohnNJ
Of course the vet remembered you. You're probably the only person that ever paid him to remove a tumor from a rat.
I was like "yeah, for how much though?" He said "bring her in Friday, we'll do the surgery for $20". That was a year ago the day after Thanksgiving and she's still my very best nanny rat in my colony. She was also my first breeder rat.
I spent close to $100 on another rat that he treated that we tried to save (but failed) that had a really bad RI and inner ear thing going on. Some people here will remember Noel, my Christmas rat. And that was just on meds - he's never charged me an office visit for the rats or the snakes.
He knows exactly who I am because I'm probably the client with the most pets on file, between rats, snakes, dogs and cats that he's seen. And I usually bring a snake for him to see when I bring in one of the fur babies, because he's never seen any of the morphs in person. He wants one of my lemon pastel babies now. He has boas himself.
Oh yeah - and all of my animals end up peeing on him.
I also adopt out my breeder females when they've retired, and I always meet the adoptee at my vet clinic, where I pay for a wellness visit before they take them home with them.
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