We took our cat in when he started to drastically lose weight, they were the nicest people. They talk of the pet as part of the family, which they are, but all the time they are just counting the dollars. They did blood work on our beloved pet and kept hom overnight as he was dehydrated and needed an I.V $300.00. When we went in they said the blood work was good, they were pretty sure it was some infected teeth. Surgery, overnight stay $300.00. We took him home after and babied him trying to get him to eat soft foods, he got weaker and dehydrated again despite our best efforts. We took him back in and they said they needed to do more tests and keep him for observations guess what $300.00, so that would have been $900.00 so far and no results.
We did not leave our pet, we took him home and called another Vet that had been highly recommended by friends, they told us to get the file from Callbecks and bring it and our cat in.
When we went to our new vet she went over the bloodwork results and told us our cat had kidney disease, she showed us the bloodwork results and how to read the elevated levels that showed this. This was the same bloodwork that Callbecks had said were fine!!! The end result of course after doing all we could for a while, giving him saline I.V's and anything he would eat he slowly became weaker and we had to put him down. Kidney disease is fatal all the time in cats.
I wonder how much Callbecks would have soaked us had we kept going there, all the time talking so nice.
Set by the government are they. Vet prices are all decided on through governed paper pusing are they. My message to every vet I have conversed with - Enjoyable discourse, thank-you for your ambiguity and obfuscation.
Regards fadedjeans
After having a friend (who is also a vet) he quite readily admitted that the vets set their own prices, they do belong to an organization and they do recommend a pricing scale, but they are NOT regulate by the government and if a vet chooses to price his or her fees below those recommended....they (the org) will do their utmost to put this vet out of business..saw it happen...twice...vet ran a practice out of his own home. Didn't do needless procedures...very reasonable..all of our pets did very well under his care...they (the other vets in the area) ganged up on him, had him under review so his license was almost suspended..the man ended up having a heart attack and retired..but he quite openly admitted that he couldn't deal with the other vets..who were bullies.