I had 2 of my dogs in for their annual boosters last week, (including Kennel Cough) and I've just opened the invoice to see that it is £56 per dog! I can't remember exactly what it was last year but I'm fairly sure it was around 35 for the booster plus 10 for the KC = a sharp increase
Is this about standard?
also the consultation fees are £28 or £21 if its a repeat visit. Any idea what other vets charge?
I might phone around our local vets later and see what they offer, we've been with this practise for farm and pets for the last 20 odd years so im not in a hurry to move but I might consider it if it seemed unreasonably high.
thanks!

That seems on a par, give or take a pound or two, to charges in my area.

When I took my OHs dog for his booster I think it was around £30-£35. Consultations are £15 or £17 I can't remember exactly and repeat consultations are either nothing or about £9, to me £28 for a consultation seems a lot. Although saying that if my vet did increase his consultation fees to the £20 mark I would not change to another practice because its a really good, helpful vets.

Just checked ours -dog booster £23.79  and consultation fee (first, second is less) £20.08. Then we get 10 % discount on top of that, we do for everything so in reality it works out at less.

At mine, normal booster is around £35 and consult for a large dog around £25 every time even if the dog's been seen before for the same thing (I know, isn't that lovely?).

Just checked with my vet and its £20 for the booster £20 for the KC but they don't charge a consultation fee. I am pretty sure that I have not been charged a consultation fee on top of boosters and vaccinations at any vet i have been to so am surprised that most people seem to be charged this?

I pay £23 with no consultancy fee - considering we live in an area where you usually pay over the odds, I think that's very reasonable.

I think I last paid £39 for the last booster and thats without kennel cough

seems to vary a lot then, I'm going in in a mo with my old girls eye again (bad english, the dogs coming too!) so I'll ask then how much is booster and how much KC Vax. if the KC is that much I may not bother again. especially as since the 2 had the vaccine last week those 2 and 2 others have seemed a bit off colour. feeling the cold and got runny noses, not enough to call kennel cough but they don't usually have drippy noses so I wonder if teh vaccine caused a reaction.
BTW think I caused confusion, I'm not charged a consultancy fee for jabs, only for the repeat eye visits. last week I had went in with 3dogs, one consult @21 2x vax @56 = £143 :O ouch!

I had 2 vaccinated today and it was £30 each without the KC vaccine.

My vet doesn't charge a consultation fee on top of the booster or vacc, just thought I'd share how much a consultation is.

I have literally just returned from the vets as one of my dogs has had his booster. The invoice states£37.91 for the booster and free health check plus £7.58 vat giving a total of£45.49.

I live in Bucks but my dad in Newcastle recently paid £18 to have his dogs booster and this was at a clinic which does vacs only. I didn't even know that there were such place

I am pretty sure that I have not been charged a consultation fee on top of boosters and vaccinations at any vet i have been to so am surprised that most people seem to be charged this?

Can only speak for myself but I never meant that I pay a consultation fee on top of a booster -definitely do not. I just gave a few price examples as requested.

My vet charges £15 for a booster vac and £7.50 for KC.

I can't remember the consultation fee but it's definitely no more than £25

I checked with my vets and it was apparently 37 for the booster and £21 for the Kennel Cough, if I'd known that I definitely wouldn't have bothered as its only as a precaution as I compete at agility, not cos I'm worried about them getting it particularly. (both young and fit) I know last year the vet came out so I wouldn't have asked the cost but the year before (which was the 1st year I had the KC done) it was 35 for the booster and £10 for the KC if done at the same time or £15 if done separately.

On the plus side my old girls eye ulcer is much better! eye looks dreadful with the whitish scar tissue and the mass of blood vessels but it is healing so I don't care!
On the downside the 5 ml of antibiotic eye drops are £21 and we have now started the opptimune to try and treat the dry-eye and that is £32ish (3? anyhow). she's also due a dose of troxcil @ £25ish! one expensive old lady this month!

Thanks for all the responses, does sound as if my vets are on the higher side but I may ask around the area and see what is the norm. no shortage of vet practise within 20 miles, just that we've always been with these for the farm and just followed on with the small animals.. I am in a V rural area in the SW if that makes a difference to average costs.

I have mine registered at 2 vets at the moment which are the two most reasonable in the area.

For regular items I go to the cheapest one, I always phone first to enquiry on price, I find it can vary even at the same vets between visits, and anything pregnancy and whelping wise go to the one who is the most experienced, he is the Guide Dogs for the Blind vet for whelping bitches and puppies.

I find it's the same with vets as with anything you're paying for.....shop around for the cheapest and best.

I pay £21 for repeat visits too.  The initial consultation is £37.  But have to say that I won't use the cheap vet in my area.

As I have millions of dogs like goldmali, I got round to asking about any deals on vaccinations.  I think boosters are around £35 (it does depend which booster is due) and I got a 10% discount because, as he said "we do a lot of work for you"  :-)

I never thought that I would have the nerve to ask for anything cut price, but it's fair to say that even the nurses there think that I funded the new extension!

I never thought that I would have the nerve to ask for anything cut price, but it's fair to say that even the nurses there think that I funded the new extension!

My old vet gave all breeders 20 % discount on vaccinations only -then charged way over the top for vaccinations to start with so it didn't end up any cheaper at all. My new vet charged less to start with, and one day when we were seeing the owner, he looked at the computer and went "Hm, you've got quite a lot of animals!" I replied "They're not even all on there yet!" (It was 2-3 months after we first went there.) So he said okay, we'll give you a 10 % discount on EVERYTHING from today! We never even asked -I think he's both a good vet (definitely is!) AND a good businessman, realising that certain clients you want to make sure to keep! (Unlike our old one who kept insulting breeders saying we were all horrible money grabbers that didn't care for our animals at all -not in those exact words but in a nutshell! So they lost a LOT of business when we left.)

I agree with you that it is in a vets interest to treat their best clients well.  (By best I mean ones who spend a lot.)

I obviously have to use whatever vet is available in an emergency, but booked in advance appointments I always ask for the head of small animal.  He truly seems to understand that I think my dogs are the most important dogs in the world.  :-)

Last year I benefited from discounts when he carried out procedures that I expected to pay more for.  Took off £200 for the patella op on a Yorkshire Terrier.  And did a lot of tests and investigating for a spayed Chi bitch.  I couldn't believe how many things he actually "missed" off that bill. 

I wonder if they think that we wouldn't bother going if charged the full whack?  Because, discounts or not, I am extremely satisfied with the expertise and competence I have in this particular practice.

> I live in Bucks but my dad in Newcastle recently paid £18 to have his dogs booster and this was at a clinic which does vacs only. I didn't even know that there were such place

Intersting, I shall look into that - I don't booster as a rule but if the dogs need to go into kennels for a holiday (not done since 2008) then of course they need "updating" and at £35 a dog (assuming I can persuade the vet that a double course is just stupid in an adult dog) it's a tad costly!  Hoping to go away later this year so I shall get googling.

Back to the OP - I don't get charged a consult for a regular booster either, I was just giving a price as asked.  And I don't get KC done so that's not included in the booster price.