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All these suggestion came from being a foster parent of an organization that had little money and the Animal doctor in our area shared his helpful tips and helped us save many.
Word to the wise check with your vet and explain the fund problem. If he is a caring vet he will help!
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If you live in the country and have a feed type store tractor supply you can buy the 7 & 1 or 8 & 1 shots for your pets. The only cost 4.00 or so and you can ask a vet assistant to teach you how to give your pet vaccination. JUST A NOTE: Some breeds can not use the 8 & 1 (Dashchounds for example)and have to use the 7 & 1. But you can look on your last vet bill to see which he used!
You will still have to get the rabies shot from your vet but a huge amount of vets and humane societies offer rabies clinics and reduced costs for this.
NOTE: at these clinics and humane societies there is no office visit fee!
Also if no clinics are available and you are forced to go to a vet take all the animals at once. It saves the office visit charge per animal.
Also if your pet has the same problem and you know and treated this with pills the vet gave you, you can just call up the vet and request the medication without seeing the doctor everytime. I do this with my Boston. Every Year she seems to start this ear infection thing. I just call the vet and get the antibotics without going in.
NEXT USE ADVICE WITH CAUTION!
If you keep your pets on regular heart warm preventative, and frontline etc. and your pet is indoor a lot skip the blood work to see if she or she has heartworms. It will save as much as 25.00 on your annaul visit.
Humane societies also have low or no cost spay services. Hunt! Hunt! HUNT!
We offer a low cost mobile van which payment is actual cost of spaying an animal!
Which is 21.00 for a female and males are less
Brewers Yeast is wonderful at getting the flea problem under control.
Pure Breeds with the ever present hot spot or allergy of the skin can benefit 100% by of predisone. I have a mix that weighs 16 pounds and 1st sign of an allergy I give her 4mg tablet in morning and 4mg at nite. Your regular doctor will prescribe it and guess what if ya have insurance the cost is way cheaper. 1 human benadryl and a couple days later it has cleared completely.
Also sometimes doggies do not have an allergy they have a skin fungus. Dry flakey type with redness. You can use trail and error on this because it doesn't hurt a thing. Rub Monostact 7 YES yeast infection medication on the area. No problem if they lick it cause it isn't toxic....Also if your pet hasn't been proven milk intolerant I can't stress enough.......PLAIN Yoooo-gert! helps tummy, and skin, and hair shedding problems!