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My cat Giraffe is an indoor/outdoor cat. He is neutered and is just the sweetest cat EVER! He ran away from us about a month ago and just came home today!! I was so happy to see him, but to my horror, he has a broken front leg!!!!!!!!! I could see bones sticking out and thought 'this can NOT be good' so I called the local vet and explained the situation. She told me that since they could not get him in today, I should call another vet about 40 minutes away. I called them and they said I could get him into the urgent care to be looked at for $72. I took him in... they looked at him and said he looked fine (except the broken leg) but that he had tapeworms and ear mites in addition to his broken leg. They said that it is so badly broken, they would just amputate it. The doc wrote me up an estimate for the surgery, anesthesia, worm treatment etc.. and the bill could range between $850-$1077!!
When I was waiting to get him in, I had done some searching online to see if I could get a guess of how much this could cost and the most I had read for an amputation is $600, which I had come to terms with and was OK paying--- but over $1000 just to cut off his leg (I mean he will never be able to use it again, it's not like they're fixing the problem completely for that price!!) I asked her if I could call around and she said he was OK to go home while I called around because he did not have a fever and he was pretty much acting like nothing happened. By the time I got out of there, it was too late to call around and my wallet was $72 lighter.
One way or the other he will get the treatment he needs--- but I was wondering if anybody could let me know if they have experienced something similar and how much they paid for an amputation? I'm going to call the vets around here tomorrow and my mom is going to call the local vets around there (she lives about an hour away from me-- I live in Wisconsin).
Thanks in advance!
My cat Giraffe is an indoor/outdoor cat. He is neutered and is just the sweetest cat EVER! He ran away from us about a month ago and just came home today!! I was so happy to see him, but to my horror, he has a broken front leg!!!!!!!!! I could see bones sticking out and thought 'this can NOT be good' so I called the local vet and explained the situation. She told me that since they could not get him in today, I should call another vet about 40 minutes away. I called them and they said I could get him into the urgent care to be looked at for $72. I took him in... they looked at him and said he looked fine (except the broken leg) but that he had tapeworms and ear mites in addition to his broken leg. They said that it is so badly broken, they would just amputate it. The doc wrote me up an estimate for the surgery, anesthesia, worm treatment etc.. and the bill could range between $850-$1077!!
When I was waiting to get him in, I had done some searching online to see if I could get a guess of how much this could cost and the most I had read for an amputation is $600, which I had come to terms with and was OK paying--- but over $1000 just to cut off his leg (I mean he will never be able to use it again, it's not like they're fixing the problem completely for that price!!) I asked her if I could call around and she said he was OK to go home while I called around because he did not have a fever and he was pretty much acting like nothing happened. By the time I got out of there, it was too late to call around and my wallet was $72 lighter.
One way or the other he will get the treatment he needs--- but I was wondering if anybody could let me know if they have experienced something similar and how much they paid for an amputation? I'm going to call the vets around here tomorrow and my mom is going to call the local vets around there (she lives about an hour away from me-- I live in Wisconsin).
Thanks in advance!