Hunting dog injuries & treatment cost

[TSAMP]

I wanted to start this thread for people's future references. I think its easy to say you'll pay whatever to get your best friend taken care of, but it's helpful to have an idea of cost to make sure your not taken advantage of.


I am fortunate to have a vet friend ( out of state so does not treat my animals) that I can text when things arise. Hopefully others can add to this so we can all be more educated of going rates.

Below are fees for a normal vet visit.

Blood work. This is called a "titers" panel. It is what ultimately found my dogs joint issues were Rocky Mtn spotted Fever. This was a $235 dollar blood test sent out to a university and is fully comprehensive for tick born illness. The normal tick test my vet did missed this the first time around

Arthritis issues- Spryng intra-articular injection. This has been a massive improvement for my older males carpus
$500

Arthritis- Shockwave therapy
$200

Missing ear chunk - sutures
$150

Surgical consult - lameness
$100-$235

Emergency vet trips - 24 hr clinic

Swallowed Foreign object. Stomach pump
$250

Barb wire fence - 13 staples
$450 with antibiotics

 

[WTFJohn]

I wanted to start this thread for people's future references. I think its easy to say you'll pay whatever to get your best friend taken care of, but it's helpful to have an idea of cost to make sure your not taken advantage of.


I am fortunate to have a vet friend ( out of state so does not treat my animals) that I can text when things arise. Hopefully others can add to this so we can all be more educated of going rates.

Below are fees for a normal vet visit.

Blood work. This is called a "titers" panel. It is what ultimately found my dogs joint issues were Rocky Mtn spotted Fever. This was a $235 dollar blood test sent out to a university and is fully comprehensive for tick born illness. The normal tick test my vet did missed this the first time around

Arthritis issues- Spryng intra-articular injection. This has been a massive improvement for my older males carpus
$500

Arthritis- Shockwave therapy
$200

Missing ear chunk - sutures
$150

Surgical consult - lameness
$100-$235

Emergency vet trips - 24 hr clinic

Swallowed Foreign object. Stomach pump
$250

Barb wire fence - 13 staples
$450 with antibiotics

Get horses and all small animal visits will seem like they are at huge discount!

It's definitely good to have reference for prices if you're getting into things for the first time with a vet; I've found once you have a vet you can trust (and that trusts you with a working dog) your prices go down because a lot more stuff can be called in instead of requiring a visit.

Good animals are worth every penny, one of my old hunting dogs had med records over 130 pages long when he passed.

 

[sndmn11]

I've found once you have a vet you can trust (and that trusts you with a working dog) your prices go down because a lot more stuff can be called in instead of requiring a visit.

I need to find one of those!

Brown dog tries hard both days this weekend and seems to have Limp Tail today.



I'd be real happy for some call in some anti-inflammatory meds, but I bet they will have me come in.

 

[WTFJohn]

I need to find one of those!

Brown dog tries hard both days this weekend and seems to have Limp Tail today.

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I'd be real happy for some call in some anti-inflammatory meds, but I bet they will have me come in.

I would be trying to find a ranch/ag/hunting community vet, maybe from Morrison you'd be looking more out towards the Divide area (or out east in Parker)? Once we have good bloodwork, we usually get a 180 ct Rimadyl, some basic antibiotics, and just holdover any extra heavy duty pain meds from surgeries or other incidents. For limp tail, 3-5 days of Rimadyl (w/ rest) has always worked on our labs.

Good luck finding one, they can be rare around the Front Range but it's worth searching them out.

I've used Rocky Top Vet Services in Florrisant for some horse stuff before, they don't work on dogs but it may be worth a phone call to them for a working dog vet reference.

 

[TSAMP]

Get horses and all small animal visits will seem like they are at huge discount!

It's definitely good to have reference for prices if you're getting into things for the first time with a vet; I've found once you have a vet you can trust (and that trusts you with a working dog) your prices go down because a lot more stuff can be called in instead of requiring a visit.

Good animals are worth every penny, one of my old hunting dogs had med records over 130 pages long when he passed.

Oddly enough, I went through 2 "normal" vets before I found my current one that does equine and large animals as well. They have been great to deal with and understand working dogs far better than your average vet office.

 

[Brock A]

I dont think the Rokslide servers can handle to PDF copies I have from my two GSP's insurance company over the last couple of years...

My 2 year old is well above $10k with an eye surgery and a gnarly open chest wound last year, plus your standard stuff, and my 8 year old has had his share of run ins with fences and those are $350-$450 per visit. Not to mention the recent visit for some reeds up his nose and his Bi-yearly PLE (Protein-losing enteropathy) blood draws.

Little shits are expensive!

 

[sndmn11]

I dont think the Rokslide servers can handle to PDF copies I have from my two GSP's insurance company over the last couple of years...

My 2 year old is well above $10k with an eye surgery

Little shits are expensive!

Eye surgery injury, or eye surgery genetic non-injury something?

 

[Speaks]

Wife became a vet tech which helped quite a bit both in terms of what we can handle ourselves and the discount.

Even bigger deal is afterhours help when needed.

They have lots of students in vet school do tech work until they graduate so have developed a whole network of vets in our area she has worked with in the past even outside of the clinic she works for. Between both there are like 15 local vets that would take her call late at night on a Saturday.

Down side is with how easy it is to get our dogs in she will take them when they really dont need it which offsets the discount, the access is still super nice though.