We decided to try a new vets for puppy as its much closer than the one we normally use, he went for his first injection at 8 weeks and we were given wormer, think it was about £34. Took him back today for his second lot of jabs, went to get my card out to pay and the receptionist said 'oh, no charge it was covered last time' I was totally surprised, in the 5 previous dogs we have always paid for both lots.

My vets take payment for both injections when having the first so don't pay when the second one is done. But it is nearer £60 without the wormer

We pay at the first vaccination appointment for both, it was £21 for the course. Have a booster booked in for tomorrow and it's £15.

Same as newyork.  I pay for the lot at first visit.  But I do get a good deal, as I get 20% off my jabs anyway, having hundreds of dogs.

And the charge is for both jabs and identichip.  If I pay for chip at the same time he charges me £7, although I never have mine put in until the 6 month free puppy health check.  I'm sure the lot only comes to around the £50 mark, getting old so not positive.

However, I can't grumble as I do get quite a few perks, being a regular (I think I paid for the laboratory build!)  He doesn't charge me for my eye testing, so I am happy with my practice.

My last lot was £44 per pup and had the option of paying in 2 instalments but as they were staying till fully vaccinated I paid at first visit, just as well because they were more of a handful at 12 weeks than they were at 9 weeks.

We have a new vet that has opened in the shops on the edge of the estate, Mum is taking Penny for her annual vacs and will get a list of their prices, it is within walking distance for me on a good day. It isn't a very big unit so not sure what sort of service will be on offer. This is the second vets to open in this small area of Merseyside this year.

My vet charges £47 just for the booster now, so I would say including the wormer you got a real bargain. Gosh I got charged £45 for 6 advocate alone..........

Yep around here most of the jabs are around £27 - £30 each, so nearly £60 for the puppy course.

I was lucky to get Peni vaccinated on a special 'half price' offer at £27.50, and chipped for £10.  Normally they charge £25 - £30 for chipping around here, and of course nearly £60 for puppy vaccs.

I hope as breeders we aren't forced to chip pups before they go as ti will add considerably to costs, especially as I already have all my pups ear tattooed at very reasonable costs (only £25 and £7 per pup).

I tried to find a list of micro-chippers (who might do whole litters at discount in my home like NDTR do) from Petlog and was told they can't give that info due to data protection, but that my local vets will do it, duh.

Surely it would make sense to have a list of private chippers, as at the moment the vets can charge what they want.  The cheapest chipping is with the RSPCA clinic (at £15) by the dogs home, but I wouldn't dream of taking a vulnerable litter there.

Brainless try this list from the Peddymark website http://www.peddymark.com/find-an-implanter.asp

My vets charge £72 for a course of innocs :-(  Nearly had a heart attack when we took our new springer girl in.  Seriously considering using a vets in the next town just for jags as they are 'only' £50.

My local groomer provides a chipping at home service for litter.  Certainly much cheaper than vets.

We tried vets4pets for puppy jabs for our springer pup ,  as they had a good offer on a few weeks ago. Must say husband was furious when he came home after the second jab , the vet put the needle in straight through and squirted the contents straight into the air . She said " oh he must have thin skin ! " Hubby insisted on another jab as he said none whatsoever went in and she didn't want to she said a little will of entered and that would be enough to cover him  . Guess she may get into trouble as she was a newly qualified vet . We definitely will not be using these again even if it means paying double !

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Please complain!

I average over £4,000 vets fees on a good year, so expect the best service.  (Over £7,500 on a bad year, and I don't have insurance!)

So when my vets changed procedures, whereby a vet gave the full health check and first jab, but a vet nurse gave the 2nd jab, I wasn't pleased, but felt I had to put up with it.  But a newly qualified nurse gave a Chihuahua pup the 2nd jab and I was dumbstruck at what she did.  Pulled up the skin, stuck the needle through, and squirted down my hand.  I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I went in a couple of days later for a booster on one of my oldies, and had booked the top vet as I wanted to discuss blood tests.  I wasn't sure how to approach it, so said Remember when I told you about a breeder who used one vaccination to do 2 Chi pups, and you said they needed the full dose to be protected?  He said yes.  I said, well what happens if a vet nurse shoots the stuff right through a pups skin and down my hand?  I could see he was not happy.  He said to leave until the following week, and the head nurse would redo the 2nd jab and amend the pups vaccination card.  The nurses were all asked to attend a refresher lecture on vaccinations.

Since then, when reception have arranged a jab with a nurse, I have said that I would like a vet appointment please.  Some don't question it, anyone new does, and I just say, I prefer my favourite vet please.  It's difficult for them to say no.

I definitely question your vets attitude that what entered was sufficient.  And I would be extremely insistent that the mistake is remedied.

I hope as breeders we aren't forced to chip pups before they go as ti will add considerably to costs, especially as I already have all my pups ear tattooed at very reasonable costs (only £25 and £7 per pup).

By bulk buying (100 chips), it costs me less than £4 to microchip a puppy.

I don't think I'd need that many for the next 15 years of litters and would have to get hubby to go on a course. LOL

No way could I stick needles into my dogs, I'm really phobic about having tehm myself, though can watch any mdical procedure on an animal or person.

Seriously we have discussed it, Dean would happily do the course and chip.

I didn't get puppy chipped as im planning to do the course and you need to take 2 animals I believe.

My usual vet practice charges £68 for vac and £28 for chip so my vet ( a friend) has gone solo and did this litter for £48 + £20 each for chip minus 10% discount
....at my house..bliss!

That is still an awful lot more than the £25 + £7 per pup to get my pups tattooed at home, and really would mean adding the cost to the price of the puppy.

At present I get pups tattooed and encourage new owners to get pup chipped themselves, this way they have two forms of permanent ID, even if new owners ignore the existing law for having a tag.

A full course of vaccs is already often nearly 10% of the puppy price in my breed, so it really does mean the cost of the puppy is the least of all the new owners expenses in the first year.

I don't think I'd need that many for the next 15 years of litters and would have to get hubby to go on a course. LOL

If you buy 10 chips at a time they work out at roughly £7 -no extra fees, so still cheaper than tattoos -plus of course you NEED the chips for eye testing and hip scoring.

I wouldn't want to take my pups and kittens to the vet for chipping, so much nicer to do it at home. But in your circumstances -don't you have a training class or ringcraft that will do it? Those here seem to charge around a tenner. I think most breeders don't do other people's animals because of the need for insurance.

>plus of course you NEED the chips for eye testing and hip scoring.

Tattoos are acceptable ID for hip scoring and eye testing.

That's bad!

Why?

> plus of course you NEED the chips for eye testing and hip scoring.
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No you don't tattoos equally acceptable.  My friends 3 year old champion bitch is tattooed but not chipped, and was Hip scored recently, and number easily read.

> If you buy 10 chips at a time they work out at roughly £7 -no extra fees,

Well no you have to pay for the course and the chipping equipment, a scanner (take a while to recoup their cost on an occasional litter basis).