Have you taken your pet to the vet recently? Chances are if you did you spent a lot of money! Quality pet care isn?t cheap?but we all know how important it is for the health of our four-legged family members.
Today we?re blessed with many diagnostic tools and procedures that weren?t available years ago. Problem is, all these advancements come with a large price tag. And pet owners are often caught in the middle. They love their pets like family members but sometimes can?t afford to take them to the doctor or pay for life-saving procedures. As a veterinary technician it?s one of the hardest things I have to deal with on a daily basis.
Here we are with all the tools and skills available to help a pet, but the owner simply doesn?t have the funds to pay.
Have you ever taken your car to the shop and said, ?Gee I don?t have money to pay for that new transmission. Can I float you a loan?? or gone to the supermarket and said, ?Sorry, I don?t have enough money for this cart full of food. Can I pay you later??
It sounds harsh, but veterinarians have businesses to run just like everybody else. And too many with good intentions and big hearts have gotten burned by offering ?credit? or ?payment plans? to non-paying clients. The result?
It?s virtually impossible to find a veterinarian willing to offer services today with payment tomorrow.
Let?s face it, quality vet care isn?t cheap. Think about it though?would you want it to be? Because if it was cheap?I?d be worried. Because it would be your pet?s health that had to suffer!
So how can pet owners save money on their veterinary bills? Pet insurance is one answer but there are many other tips that pet owners simply don?t know about it.
One simple idea is to bring in lab samples that you collect at home. Is your pet having a urinary problem? Try to collect a urine sample at home and then bring it in at appointment time. Your vet will have instructions on how to do this depending on whether you have a dog or cat. It?s not that hard. Veterinarians love clients who bring in urine samples from their pet because it means less work for them!
If urine must be collected by veterinary staff there?s a chance you?ll have to pay for it, especially if your pet won?t ?give it up? on his own and they have to obtain a sample using either a syringe or catheter.
