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Our lab/golden mix got a bottle of pain pills from our cabinet (you'll
have to ask her how). I caught her as soon as she laid in her hiding place under our dinner table chewing on the bottle. I couldn't account for all of the pills missing so I called my vet. Their after hours number referred me to an all night emergency clinic who said she would not die if she ingested them but I could call a pet poison control number, wihch they supplied. I figured that, since we have to put her benadryl in cheese or she'll spit it out, she probably didn't ingest any of the larger pills but decided to call anyway. The number was for the SPCA poison control. The answering message said to get my credit card out because there would be a $50 consultation fee!!! FOR A TWO MINUTE PHONE CALL??? That's $1,500 an hour!!!! Needless to say, that is one pet "service" I can scratch off my list. I expected maybe a $5 or $10 "donation" request, but this is extorsion. Don S PS: Yes, I'm a pet abuser, but you are blocked so I won't have to see your rants. You know who you are : ) |
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I hear ya Don.
Crazy arent they... next time call Walgreens....they will answer all your questions for free! "Don S" wrote in message ... Our lab/golden mix got a bottle of pain pills from our cabinet (you'll have to ask her how). I caught her as soon as she laid in her hiding place under our dinner table chewing on the bottle. I couldn't account for all of the pills missing so I called my vet. Their after hours number referred me to an all night emergency clinic who said she would not die if she ingested them but I could call a pet poison control number, wihch they supplied. I figured that, since we have to put her benadryl in cheese or she'll spit it out, she probably didn't ingest any of the larger pills but decided to call anyway. The number was for the SPCA poison control. The answering message said to get my credit card out because there would be a $50 consultation fee!!! FOR A TWO MINUTE PHONE CALL??? That's $1,500 an hour!!!! Needless to say, that is one pet "service" I can scratch off my list. I expected maybe a $5 or $10 "donation" request, but this is extorsion. Don S PS: Yes, I'm a pet abuser, but you are blocked so I won't have to see your rants. You know who you are : ) |
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"Don S" wrote in message ... The number was for the SPCA poison control. The answering message said to get my credit card out because there would be a $50 consultation fee!!! FOR A TWO MINUTE PHONE CALL??? That's $1,500 an hour!!!! .....................you sure it was SPCA? Might have been a number for the National Poison Control Hotline and they've been charging for years. .........and don't bother calling the pharmacist, they can only tell you about human stuff. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:54:38 GMT, "buglady"
wrote: "Don S" wrote in message .. . The number was for the SPCA poison control. The answering message said to get my credit card out because there would be a $50 consultation fee!!! FOR A TWO MINUTE PHONE CALL??? That's $1,500 an hour!!!! ....................you sure it was SPCA? Might have been a number for the National Poison Control Hotline and they've been charging for years. ........and don't bother calling the pharmacist, they can only tell you about human stuff. buglady take out the dog before replying It was the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at 888-426-4435. I didn't know the human poison control center charged too. I felt their fee was steep when they were jiust going to be one part of information I used to determine the next step. If they had seen her and had any liability attached to their advice, I could see a higher fee. Don S |
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Our lab/golden mix got a bottle of pain pills from our cabinet
BTDT. The number was for the SPCA poison control. The answering message said to get my credit card out because there would be a $50 consultation fee!!! FOR A TWO MINUTE PHONE CALL??? It's actually PER CASE, that fee is good for all time and consultation, the coodination with your vet's office AND the local animal hospital, everything. For the amount we spent on the hospitalization, that was actually the bargain of the whole episode. --Glenn Lyford |
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Don S said in rec.pets.dogs.health:
After the fact, I'm sure it was worthwile. It would be easy for them to screen simple requests (at a much simpler fee) so pet owners could make a decent decision. I just wanted a little information - not a surgical specialist. I've phoned the emergency 24 hour vet here - while they're expensive for drop-ins, I was given good (and free) advice over the phone. It was a similar situation to yours, and the person who took my call had to consult with a vet. As it turned out, the advice was bang-on. Do you have any 24 hour veterinarians in your area? -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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on 2005-11-11 at 03:04 wrote:
I've phoned the emergency 24 hour vet here - while they're expensive for drop-ins, I was given good (and free) advice over the phone. It was a similar situation to yours, and the person who took my call had to consult with a vet. As it turned out, the advice was bang-on. i've had similar experience. OTOH, the vet i *was* using insisted that the animal be brought in (they were a semi-emergency vet, walk-ins only, with extended evening hours). they wouldn't answer questions over the phone. their fees were pretty high, so a US$50 poison control consultation fee would be quite cheap in comparison, especially if that covered consultation with the vet in the event that the problem *was* serious. -- shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com/ |
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In article .net,
shelly wrote: i've had similar experience. OTOH, the vet i *was* using insisted that the animal be brought in (they were a semi-emergency vet, walk-ins only, with extended evening hours). they wouldn't answer questions over the phone. their fees were pretty high, so a US$50 poison control consultation fee would be quite cheap in comparison, especially if that covered consultation with the vet in the event that the problem *was* serious. Greta made a point of only having health crises on major holidays and at times when the roads were impassable, and her first set of seizures was late Christmas eve. The only vet that was taking calls was Cornell, and they talked to me at some length at no charge before telling me not to bring her in. Same thing after the second seizure, but after the third seizure they did tell me to bring her in (and that's when they hit me with the humungo charges). It costs them something to provide the service. They can either charge for it directly or they can displace the charges into something else. Either is fine with me. Expecting them to spend their own money to help me strikes me as a bit unreasonable (as the old joke goes: "but we make it up in volume!"). -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - So far this year, homebuilding industry insiders have sold $976 million worth of their stock. |
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on 2005-11-11 at 08:20 wrote:
It costs them something to provide the service. They can either charge for it directly or they can displace the charges into something else. Either is fine with me. yes, though i lean a little toward preferring to be charged directly. i just like things to be simple and spelled out. if it's not, though, it doesn't ruin my day. my bottom line is whether or not my pet got quality care, not how my charges are, or are not, described/itemized. Expecting them to spend their own money to help me strikes me as a bit unreasonable (as the old joke goes: "but we make it up in volume!"). agreed. i'm in serious "quality of care is all i'm worrying about" mode right now, so a $50 charge seems like microscopic potatoes to me. of course, i'm also suffering from a bit of sticker shock[1], as well, which makes the $50 in question seem even more of a non-issue. [1] and, it's sticker shock i have no right to be feeling, too. three hours of PU surgery, anesthesia, urolith analysis, drugs, etc. ended up costing me only $550. and that was at the cat specialist clinic, too. i expected it to cost twice that much, so i'm notnotnot complaining. it's just that it came on top of a week and a half of hospitalization at the emergency clinic, so funds are tight right now. -- shelly http://www.cat-sidh.net http://cat-sidh.blogspot.com/ |
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