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If you don’t usually take your cat(s) to the veterinarian, why not?
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I only take my cat to the vet when it is absolutely necessary, such as for routine shots, spaying or an emergency situation. I know some people bring their cats to the vet for little things like worms (you can buy wormer at the store unless it's tapeworms). I also keep my cat inside so there are less reasons to bring the cat to a vet.
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I wouldn't mind taking my cats to the vet once a year for a check-up, but I don't want to be pressured into vaccinating more often than is necessary. I don't agree that annual vaccination is a good thing, it really is quite risky. Here's one link: http://www.critteradvocacy.org/ , and if you Google the subject, you'll find a lot more about it. If I could find a vet that didn't push overvaccinating, I'd be glad to go more often for routine care. As it is, I only take the cats to the vet for spaying/neutering, vaccinating and testing young and new cats, and when a cat is sick.
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I completely agree about over vaccination. When I got my cat she had already had her first distemper shot and I knew she would need another one in a couple weeks but when I went to the vet to get her other one they said she would need two more! I brought her back for a third but not a fourth. They charge a ton for such a little shot. I prefer vets that come out to my house, but the one that used to see my other animals doesn't come to where I moved, so I have to go to an expensive clinic.
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| Mine go to the vet, but I can see why some don't. Around here, we have lots of vets, but some charge 100$ just for an office visit! Are they kidding? My OWN doc doesn't charge that much! We found a vet who only charges 25$ an office visit and 7$ per shot. Plus he doesn't try to tell us the cat needs all these shots, that it doesn't! They're indoor cats. They don't need 50 million shots! We had a vet one time want to charge an extra 50$ just for WARM saline during neutering! Actually, had we gone with them, our bill would have been around 300$! HELLO?!?! I've got four kids and never spent 300$ on an office visit! So needless to say, we switched. The neutering was 28$. That was it. Cat's are fine and the vet is very well known and very well liked!
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My response isn't on there - but cost has a little to do with it. For the most part, we know a lot about cats so we feel like we know when they need to get professional help.
So many cats...
Isn't it great?
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My reason, cost, wasn't up there either, but my vet is very reasonably priced. It's just I'm unemployed, and my cat has hyperthyroidism. She needs methimathiazole daily, but a friend of mine is kind enough to pay for that. However, she should have bloodwork done at least once, preferably twice, a year to monitor her condition. At nearly 17 years old, I'm not concerned about over vaccinating; the actual risk of problems is actually very small. If I had money, I would buy the vaccines and do them myself, just bring her in for the 3 year rabies vaccine. But the answer I chose, too much off a hassle, is true, too--she hates riding in the car, and has quite a pair of lungs on her! Riding with Tripod in the car can be an earsplitting experience!
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| Money is not a factor in my decision. I simply do not agree with the overuse of vaccines and antibiotics. There are cases when antibiotic therapy is necessary, and vaccines are very good things....but not when overused! And I don't trust medical professionals in general. I haven't been to a doctor since I was 12----when an unnecessary and unwanted MMR vaccination was forced on me. Some doctors do not truly care about their patients, they only care about lining their pockets, and a lot of the doctors who do care have been brainwashed by the mainstream medical establishment into mistrusting all alternative treatments. It's hard to find a doctor who is openminded enough to be willing to consider that alternative treatments may have merit. This is true whether it is a human doctor or a vet.
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Our local Petco store offers reduced rates on vaccinations. No office call fee. My cats get all of their shots for less than $20/each.
- SuperCat
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| Cost is a big factor for us too. The vets in this city charge somewhere between $60 - $90 just to walk in the door. Add shots and treatment on top of that and a single, noneventful vet visit could easily run over $200. We just don't have the money for that. Right now our cats got their initial shots as kittens, and were fixed, and haven't been to the vet since. They're both strictly indoor cats who fortunately have been healthy. If something were to come up then we would of course take them in, but at the rates the vets here charge we can't afford to take them in just so the vet can confirm that their healthy.
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