Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:12:14 -0400
From: Elliot Cramer
Subject: Low Cost Veterinary Care July 21, July 31, August 1
Your friends at Pittsboro Animal Hospital advertises low cost veterinary days. What they don’t say is that a rabies shot or other vaccinations require a $38 exam. That’s $48 for a rabies shot. For other vaccines, they give individual shots for a cat which would be $55 + $38 for the exam and a single shot for a dog at $15 + $38.
Their office manager says that other Pittsboro clinics have the same requirement. This does not seem low cost to me and I regard this as a scam. Chapel Hill vets do not have the same policy and there is no justification for it. Orange and Chatham County have rabies clinics for $5 without a physical exam
The American Animal Hospital Association guidelines are on
http://www.aahanet.org/PublicDocuments/VaccineGuidelines06Revised.pdf
and recommend a single combination shot every three years. Also see
http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/vmth/clientinfo/info/genmed/vaccinproto.html
which gives a simpler summary. Actually one can easily obtain these vaccines for under $4 and give them yourself. It takes a few minutes and is very easy
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