Spay Cost?

[vjgrey]

Is it normal to pay over $500 for a spay, or is my vet just obscenely expensive? I did request all of the "optional," pre-surgery bloodwork, etc . . but I expected something more in the $300 range.

[Guest koolaidnconner]

I would say that is expensive here in Winnipeg. It's about 200.00-300 with bloodwork being done.

[Guest Energy11]

$500 is wayyy tooo high. Usually, it is around $200 or $300, give or take.

[retiredracers]

It depends on where you are... prices here can go from $200-$600 for a spay.

[Guest trevdog]

Dallas was around $120 for hers

[Wendie]

Wow! Our prices for dentals are higher than most (making me think this area is higher priced than many) but I've never heard of a dog spay going over $220, even with all the "bells and whistles"

[Guest GreysAndMoreGreys]

I paid over $500 for Pooh recently

We did go with the pre anesthetic blood work. No dental or anything other then the spay. I even had the meds (pain and antibiotics) so there was no charge for those.

 

But then again I know my vet is crazy high on their prices. Heck I paid $40 for a bag of fluids. Yes just the bag of fluids

[vjgrey]

I wouldn't mind paying a small fortune if I were happier with our vet. In Oklahoma, I used a vet who I knew was expensive and drove 45 minutes to see him. I didn't mind at all, because he was phenomenal with my dogs, and he has a lot of experience with greyhounds.

 

This vet isn't bad, but he's not good enough to justify what we're paying. We're moving soon, so it's a moot point, but if we weren't, I'd definitely be changing vets.

[Guest KennelMom]

That's a bit high for our area. When Tater was spayed, with the pre-anes. bloodwork I think it was around $300. She didn't need a dental, so that was just the bloodwork and spay. The post-op pain killers we had at home already, but that doesn't add too much to the bill anyway.

[gazehund]

It depends on where you are... prices here can go from $200-$600 for a spay.

 

Agreed. I paid almost $600.00 when Pooter was done. She had all the pre-op blood work done and she also had a tooth extracted. Normal for our area and I don't mind paying it for excellent work. Pooter came home the same day and was eating that night. She did beautifully.

 

[Guest TBSFlame]

With bloodwork that's about right for the Charlotte area. My recent vet bill for them washing out Star's nose and a few stitches including a few cultures is up to $600...so far.

[Guest kodywyoming]

O.O

 

I'm always amazed at the spay prices.

 

I paid about $80 to have a cat spayed a few years ago. People say, well, that's just a tiny cat...but to have a horse neutered (which would almost always be a home/farm visit), it's about $100-200, and we're talking about a 500+lb animal. And then you pay up to $600 for a dog?! This does not make sense to me.

 

(Luckily, Zoey's spay was covered by the adoption group, because I would never have been able to afford that right off the bat.)

[Guest kydie]

I live in a rural part of Pa. my last cost we $285.00 but that was with additional cost of a rabies, heartworm testing, and heartgurad meds, and a removal of a dew claw that grew back after removal from the breeder, nail clipping and microchipping at the same time, I know vet cost due depend on what part of the country you live in

[Guest RocketDog]

There is a spay/neuter clinic in my area that does all the vetwork for my group's dogs, and I think it runs somewhere around $150 for a spay, not including fluids or pre-op bloodwork. There is an even lower-priced mobile spay/neuter clinic that will do a spay for $60-90 depending on the weight of the dog, and that includes pain meds.

[Hubcitypam]

I paid $250 at a fairly high dollar vet in Dallas about 5 years ago.

 

This thread makes me think of my first grey Little Girl. She was sort of a private adoption, not via a group. The deal was I had to pay for her spay and shots. In 1999 I wrote Doc Smart in Abilene, KS a check for $50 to cover both.

[Trudy]

$150 for bloodwork here and unless I'm dropping off an animal that had bloodwork done in recent weeks, they are not doing surgery on a dog of mine without bloodwork.

No idea what the price is here for a spay or neuter.

When we dropped T off for his neuter, I signed paperwork saying he was to have bloodwork done before hand and if the shelter didn't normally pay for it, I would.

 

 

 

When I was looking at adopting an unaltered female, I think I was quoted around $300-400 in Salem, MA for the spay.

 

[Guest hvacman250]

Our group pays $105 for a spay at a decent vet. My personal vet, who is greyhound savvy, charges $125-175 depending on age and weight. A full blood panel is $100.

 

I would pay no more than $250 for a spay/neuter WITH pre-op bloodwork.

[Guest WhiteWave]

I always purchase a voucher from the Humane Society for $60, all vaccines $30, pre op blood work $80. So under $200. The vet that does them does a great job, small incision- usually just glued. On the 2 female Greys she did for me, the incisions were around 1" long and healed very fast.

 

 

[kudzu]

Wow! Our prices for dentals are higher than most (making me think this area is higher priced than many) but I've never heard of a dog spay going over $220, even with all the "bells and whistles"

Ditto... until... Called my vet here in the Atlanta area for a quote for my little Deehound mix, 60 lbs. The quote was $500 which did include blood work & pain meds. Next I contacted the vet clinic that does the Greyhound spay/neuters for our adoption group. Their quote was in the $200's & I know they have loads of sighthound experience. In the end, that is where I took my girl. For $230 she had pre-op blood work, was spayed, got pain meds to take home plus she was microchipped. She breezed through it all.

 

I love my vets & will continue to use them but sometimes when it comes to price ya gotta vote with your feet so I hoofed it over to the affordable place who I trusted just as much.