Vets in Spain
 

One of our cats has been diagnosed with kidney disease and is on a special diet and medication. Can anyone who is registered with a vet in Spain please enquire as to the costs of the special renal diet food (pouches and biscuits) and tablets -Fortekor. Currently she is on the Royal Canin brand of food prescribed by the vet. Also, what is the cost for a consultation in Spain? We pay £27.30 for a consultation.

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Where we are, Valencia, vets are much cheaper than the UK.

Ou local vet does an annual 'health plan' for our Westy.

Price includes:- Three check ups, rabies jab, DHPPil jab (not sure what that is!!), anti-parasite treatment, analaysis for Leishmania.

All for 75 euros (£52.50).

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Thanks Derek, it's good to know that vets are cheaper in Spain, it's costing a fortune for her treatment here. She is worth every penny though :)

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we have found vets to be much cheaper here, certianly for the normal yearly jabs.

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Thanks Mike :) Err - is your avatar a picture of a ginger cat in a dress :blink: :cool:

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ermm no, it's actually called 'shaved cat':lol:

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Awwwww sweet :wub:

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My dog has a liver problem and is also on a special diet for the rest of her life - Hill's L/D (which is along the same lines as the Royal Canin brand). That costs 68€ for a 14kg sack.

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Hi, I read your post and hoped you may help. I live in La Linea (near Gibraltar) and have a 9 year old Husky who has been diagnosed with E. Coli which is proving impossible to get rid of, the antibiotics just "control" it. I have started giving him probiotics and just wondered what your opinion was if the food you mention may help him with his problem ? He currently gets reasonable quality biscuits and home cooked chicken, offal, veggies etc., but my english trainee vet has suggested that "one can never judge the exact nutricional content of home cooked food" - I have asked his mother to serve him Hills for his tea tomorrow !- but I do want to do everything I can to help my dog, do you think Hills would ?
Thanks
LA

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Sorry to hear of your dog's health problem.
I'm not a vet so rely on the diagnoses I get from my vet based on annual blood tests plus whatever info I can glean from the internet regarding herbal remedies that are suitable for dogs.
For my dog's specific problem, the Hill's dietary food is working well to keep the liver inflammation under control. But only your own vet can advise you on your own dog's health because each Hill's (or other brand) dietary food mix is specially formulated for the various conditions and if you feed the "wrong" one your pet's diet may be lacking in something essential or vice versa which is why you can only buy them from vets.
Best wishes.

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Here in Galicia we pay for 24 tins at about 1.20 per tin
That is about the same price as in The Netherlands.

The cat also has special dry food 3kg about 11 euros

All the food is made by Hills.

There are other brands but Tiger does not eat them.
He was diagnosed with his liver problems at the age of 8. He his now coming up to his 16 birthday so they can live a long time with liver problems.

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Tiger is gorgeous :) He has done well to reach the age of 16 despite having liver problems. You must look after him really well. Gives me hope for my cat, Daisy, she seemed to lose her sight when first diagnosed with kidney disease but after 2 months of medication she seems to have some of her sight back and seems quite happy. She also had high blood pressure so the vet is hopeful that when he can stabilise her and get her blood pressure down she will see even better, Not as before, but at least she won't be blind.

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Lionda
Our posting was done late at night and we made a mistake
Tiger suffers from poor kidneys not livers. So he is like your cat.
The post was written very late at night, after a long day and we found it a bit frustrating trying to put the correct size photos within the posting.
Some times Tiger manages to catch a small mouse or lizard and eats them so don’t be afraid if your cat has something she should not really eat. We have found that tiger seems to know exactly how much non-special food he can eat.
Thanks for the compliments about him. We are proud of him too. Last year we lost two other cats due to illness. One was a feral cat and she adopted us.

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Hi, well Tiger is lucky to have you as owners as he is being taken care of and looks really well. Like you, we have already lost a cat to illness. In fact, it was kidney disease also, she (Spitz) was only 13 years old and went completely blind so it was very upsetting when Daisy was diagnosed with the same. Luckily she still has partical sight.

We had a beautiful ginger Tom (called Sidney) he was absolutely gorgeous but sadly he was run over right outside the house, he was only 14. They were inseparable and Spitz seemed to be looking for him after he was gone, she disappeared 6 weeks later and we are convinced she wandered off to find Sidney. Unfortunately it was January and a very cold frosty spell, by the time she was found it was too late. I like to think they are together now.

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Me im a cat person but we did not at first have to much luck with them we did not bring one from england but when we moved here i bought a loverly grey blue ball of fluff cost 600€ it was coming up to christmas so we called him bauble like the things that hang of the tree and he spent a lot of time up the tree. It was ashame he was deaf he didn`t hear the tractor with the bailer coming i spent days calling his name and then the viallage kids found him he was in the centre of a bail. :huh:

Watch it with the lizards. we had a lovely ginger cat but it got a taste for lizards and one day its belly puffed up like a balloon and he passed away.

But now we have four three are the sons of the third cat we got she is up the duff again the cat pill sucks. She looks like a barrel at the moment its funny going to dig out my wifes wide load sign.

Oh and if its a girl cat your bringing get her done. as the boy cats well you know. Behind the bus shelter an all.:p

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Hi Lionda,

We've been to the vet tonight because our dog's annual vaccinations were due.
Although we've seen the vet a couple of times previously, they've only been to make initial enquiries and to register - so this was our first "paying" trip!

Shiloh had her vaccination, we asked lots of questions about various things and got unhurried advice, we received FREE worming tablets.....and then I asked what we owed.

You could have knocked me off the chair when he said 12 Euros!!!
I had to get him to repeat it, and he laughed and said "this isn't England, you know!" :lol:

What's more, we didn't have to make an appointment - the surgery is open from 5.30 until 8.30 and you just turn up.
We got there at 5.45, and walked straight into the consultation room!
No waiting around, our dog wasn't the least bit stressed....and the vet is handsome!! ;)

We're going back in a fortnight for the rabies vaccination, so it will be very interesting to see how much that costs.
All a bit different to our UK vet - £20 just for walking in the door! :eek:

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Sorry to hear about the cat... my dog had the same problem and was on the renal diet for years. She was eating the Royal Canin and the 2 or 2.5 kg bag was 15 Euros a time. Vaccinations and consults are cheaper than in UK but it can start to get expensive if you´re having to do regular tests, ops or the like.

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I have found the spanish vets excellent, our dog recently had a cut between his toes, needed anaesthetic and 3 stitches, cost was only 45 euros - that would have cost £100 easily in the UK

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Hi All'
Been reading the posts on here with great interest.Its refreshing to know that I can look foward to cheaper vet bills when we move.Lionda your consultation fees are high:eek: I pay about £20.00.
My George had a operation on his leg the week before Xmas,he had xrays,blood tests and finally a ccartilageremoved the total cost was £1400:eek: the insurance would not cover the cost because it was on the same leg he had previously been operated on,he had a cruciate removed two years ago,that was £1200,he has to have metacam on a regular basis and the large bottle of that is £46.00.Its crazy,I think the vets here charge what they like :eek: but I wouldnt be without him:wink_smile:

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Our pip had a near fatal accident yesterday.....accidently jumped off a 20 odd foot cliff on to concrete and broken beer bottles. Amazingly the only thing he suffered was a missing claw, cut clean off! The vet checked him out thoroughly and everything is fine. He didn't charge us anything.

What I am most thankful for is that he is absolutely fine. He's even jumping off the porch and into the garden without any fear. How amazing is that?

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Oh my goodness Martha! Scary moment for you!! And for Pip. Glad he is ok. What a good vet you have not to charge you.

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It was horrible Lionda!

I was a blubbering mess yesterday and today my legs still feel like jelly!

We were so very lucky....someone up there is looking out for us to be sure!

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Yes, someone is definitely looking out for Pip, lucky fella :wub:

Karma on it's way for you both :)

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Oh my goodness, what a shock Martha!! :ohmy:

I've only just checked the updates on here, and was amazed to read about poor Pip!
It sounds like he had an incredibly lucky escape, bless him.

I can imagine how shaken up you feel - what a terrible shock :(
Of course, the most important thing is that Pip is OK. I'm sure he's being extra well loved and pampered at the moment!

I guess you won't fancy doing that particular walk for a while then!?

Take good care and give Pip a pat from me :)
Love Sam x

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Thanks Sam!

Pip has fully recovered, but I am still having visions of him flying over that wall and making a million scenarios in my head of what could've happened or how it could've been prevented. Don't know where the switch is to turn those ugly thoughts off. Needless to say Michael thinks I'm mad, but that's nothing new *lol*

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Had he been watching Thelma & Louise.

Sorry to make fun, but sometimes that helps to banish horrific thoughts.

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Was it just a practise for the world record ?
See the list HERE

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Wow jdr!
There are some amazing stories on there :eek:

There you go Martha, they should make you feel a bit better ;)

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:)

He was more than lilkely reading the article that jdr posted about the dog in Cardiff!

Thanks for making me smile guys ;)

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I watched the UK news and they had a dog in the studio that had jumped off a cliff, it had a plastered up front leg so he wasn`t so lucky.
I didn`t hear the story though but they showed the cliff, it looked really high.