So, $398 is crazy money for spaying a cat, right?
Won't the Humane Society do it for two nickels and a box of paper clips?
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Spike's Bitches 42: Which question do you want me to answer first?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DavidS - Oct 13, 2008 12:42:23 pm PDT #8152 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
SailAweigh - Oct 13, 2008 12:54:50 pm PDT #8153 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I think it's a little more than that, Hec, but still considerably cheaper than what GC's vet is asking for.
Glamcookie - Oct 13, 2008 1:00:57 pm PDT #8154 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yeah, vet is very short-sighted because we are now looking for a new vet for our 3 cats. If they charge that much for a routine procedure, what might we encounter with an actual illness? I don't want to find out.
brenda m - Oct 13, 2008 1:07:55 pm PDT #8155 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The thing is, spaying and neutering are generally very heavily subsidized either by orgs like the Humane Society or by vets themselves. I'm guessing price GC's vet is quoting is not out of line considering you are talking about surgery. Or it wouldn't be if it were just about any other kind of surgery.
So I guess I'm saying it might not be an indicator that other things are way overpriced. But I certainly wouldn't have it done there. And it would give me qualms about staying with that vet, I won't lie, even though that might not really be fair.
Connie Neil - Oct 13, 2008 1:36:05 pm PDT #8156 of 10001
brillig
Well, just had my interview for the tech support job. I was not wearing my interview clothes because I thought this was scheduled for tomorrow. Fortunately I wasn't wearing too casual a top.
However, it looks like they're looking for someone with a lot more formal job experience at tech writing than I have, "though we'll look at the writing sample you just did and keep you in mind."
Crap. Hopefully the disappointment will settle in in stages.
beth b - Oct 13, 2008 2:13:12 pm PDT #8157 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
sorry, connie.
Saturday,I pulled all the plants out of my raised beds -- including the two year old oregano and two year old tarragon. currently I have about two cups of dried oregano leaves and two cups of not-so-dried tarragon leaves. The amusing part of all this harvesting-- the cat couldn't believe I was spending so much time in the kitchen, yet nothing was for him
omnis_audis - Oct 13, 2008 2:43:48 pm PDT #8158 of 10001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
aw, sorry to hear that Connie.
Yay for Nicole!
So after 2 months or so with my dining room stuffed with boxes, I have given them and the packing papers away. Someone posted some items for sale in the mailbox area, so I got a toaster, she got a ton of boxes. After driving away with an suv packed, she returned with a pretty printed Chinese fan as a thank you. Shame she's moving. She's nice. Funny thing, she's moving to LA, where the boxes came from.
Gadget_Girl - Oct 13, 2008 3:18:40 pm PDT #8159 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Congrats, Nicole!
How long have you lived in Florida? Cuz that's where my dad's family is from. Different part of the state, though - Pensacola, Quincy, Tallahassee.
I've lived in Jacksonville and Orange Park (in the 70's), Clearwater, Tampa, New Port Richey, Pensacola and Homosassa/Crystal River. Plus I lived in Tallahassee for 3 summers for grad school.
sarameg - Oct 13, 2008 3:21:22 pm PDT #8160 of 10001
Sorry, connie. I hope they revisit your resume!
GC, neutering for Loki was $180ish, and male snipping is routinely cheaper. (All the shots, tests, deworming, etc were another $150ish.) My vet did say going through the eta: aspca humane society would be cheaper and suggested that, but I hate making appts cold, I was feeling nervous and I trust my vet. The aspcas here are cheaper due to subsidy and pro-bono work. I'd call other vets for quotes if you are otherwise happy with the vet.
(The local aspca site point out that adopting from them is cheaper than not. But sometimes that isn't an option!)
WindSparrow - Oct 13, 2008 6:45:26 pm PDT #8161 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Birthday happies to Cash, Matt, and Megan!
The most I have ever spent on a spay was $90. And it was one of those "OMG you have to spay this cat today while she's in heat or I'll let her get knocked up just to shut her up!" Of course this was a small town vet, and nine years ago. The vets in Cleveland did not seem horribly more expensive than the small town Ohio vets I took my cats to way back when.