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Vet bills because I'm worth it by Blodwen (aka little honks)

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Blodwen would just like to remind all piggy slaves how much vet bills cost, and how much money they should save up for their precious little furry potato friends!

Yesterday morning poor Blod had awful breathing again, she sounded like a covid patient garging with a bucket of slime full of motorbike engines. Cue emergency vet trip!

Blodwen has now gained the singular honour of being our first piggy to run up vet bills of over £1000 in just over 2 years.

Ringworm
Emergency dental surgery
URI
That time she had a discharge like custaed from her lady bits
The summer she had a mildly infected over active grease gland
The 2020 summer of persistent URIs, 6 vet trips one of them an emergency, 2 courses of baytril, chest xrays, a course of sulfatrim, the helpful discovery of bisolvon and how Blod loves it and it helps her breathing
A mild Christmas bout of honking solved with more bisolvon and some loxicom
Fast forward to Feb 2020- another URI, another vet trip, baytril and bisolvon...

Ker-ching, £1000! Blodwen is worth evety penny and she knows it! Here is Blod having perked up a lot in 24 hours and groomed her beautiful fur, striking her best "because I'm worth it" pose :)

Also madam is requesting that the hooman serfs peel her grapes and/or can she have a wafer thin slice of a Sainsbury's taste the difference posh apple with her bisolvon decongestant sprinkled on, none of your cheap royal gala peasant apples here please!

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Of course Princess Blodwen, you can have anything you need to keep you happy and healthy :)
 
You are so worth it Blodwen! I hope you make a speedy recovery!
 
Oh beautiful Blod, you sound just like my Ped (never counted or listed but I dread to think! :yikes:)! You lovely rodents are so good at racking up the pennies!
So glad she’s perked up :love: Most definitely worth it! :luv:x
 
Blodwen was a "breeder's reject" dumped in the free ads with lots of misleading information, because the evil breeder didnt think she was worth treating for her ringworm and dental problems.
She is clearly very inbred, flat face, slightly deformed jaw, short neck, narrow chest, squinty little pink eyes that dont see too well... and the alarming paralytic seizures she used to have when she was scared!
She's worth all the vet bills, but it makes me sad that she was deliberately bred to have all those "cute" features that affect her breathing and teeth then just dumped.
On the plus side, I was telling my boss about Blodwen and she has invited me to contribute to one of her Animal Welfare lectures where she talks about inbred fashionable pedigree dogs and the health issues that causes- there will be a guinea pig section in the lecture next year too!
 
Oh Blodwen you are worth every penny. Hope you are feeling better soon along with your hoomans bank balance. :D
 
Aw, gorgeous Blod, yes you are worth every penny ❤️ I can’t imagine those backstreet breeders had an once of knowledge or intelligence to breed a beauty like her, she’s just a very pretty in bred-piggie
I shudder to think of the amount of money we have spent on dentals for Ted over the years, not to mention hotel bills and travel cost, but he like Blow was worth every penny too ☺️
 
Oh Blodwin, you are so worth it and beautiful!

The story reminds me of a visit from my neighbour who said that his 10 month old labrador (usually very well behaved and quiet) would probably be crying because he was having to stay in his crate after a hip replacement. He said that he was the one that should be crying about the £10,000 bill, and the fact that the other hip would probably need doing too.
 
Blodwen, there is absolutely no question about spending all that money on you. Worth every last penny.

As for the breeder who didn’t have perfection...🤬🤬🤬🤬
 
So worth it indeed! :love:

But you still have way to go to catch up with my Cariad's £2000 - another breeder reject... Coming in at a hundred times of the original adoption fee. Bladder stones and sludge requiring an operation and multiple subequent flushes over the next couple of years, an ermergency spay when her womb went wrong (including a potentially cancerous lump in there plus some nasty looking cysts) etc. etc... She's still my most expensive pig - and that about 6-8 years ago!

The dance they lead us! Whoever thinks that piggies are cheap pets has never taken one to the vets.
 
Iam still surprised it's not more. I mean, just a bladder surgery for my boy was close to £1000 alone. That's one condition, one treatment. Guessing some surgeries are just much more costly than others?
 
That does sound a bit on the expensive side @Hath!
Think my RB Jess was actually the most expensive piggy with having two ops (her eye removed and mammary gland cyst) that together were about £800, then all the rest but I let her off a bit as it was over 7 and a half years! Pedro the chin was a year of non-stop vets the little troublesome chap!
 
:agr: The beautiful Blodwen is most definitely worth it 💕

My lovely Odin (Also a result of careless breathing) ran us up a bill of £6400 between August and December last year with his range of issues, treatments, hospitalisation etc.
But of course, I would do it all again for my baby.

I am pretty sure the horses have never cost me that much in veterinary care in such a short space of time 🤦🏻‍♀️
 
alpacasqueak said:
That does sound a bit on the expensive side @Hath!
Think my RB Jess was actually the most expensive piggy with having two ops (her eye removed and mammary gland cyst) that together were about £800, then all the rest but I let her off a bit as it was over 7 and a half years! Pedro the chin was a year of non-stop vets the little troublesome chap!
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It was bladder stone removal and castrate (his testies were retained and pushing on other organs) op done by exotic vet and he had to stay overnight as well. Before that he had xray and treatment for UTI. He wasn't even year old and didn't recover after the surgery.
 
An update from Blodwen:
Blod says... I have still got the honks, mummy is calling me duck girl now and I saw the vet again yesterday and thank goodness no more yucky batril but I have sulfatrim and nice loxy medicine and more bisolvy honking powder to put on apples and I cost another £80! But the vet thought my special honks should cost more than that so I am going to see a specialist that costs lots and lots more money so I can show them my honking which I am very good at! Then I did a big wee on daddy's trousers to celebrate :)
 
Patsy says Blod, you're a good girl to wee all over Daddy's trousers. I poop all over Mummy after I've had my foot spa and she is drying me off in a nice fluffy towel. I save them up especially for my Mummy Hooman. I know how pleased she is when I poop all over her. :)
 
PigglePuggle said:
An update from Blodwen:
Blod says... I have still got the honks, mummy is calling me duck girl now and I saw the vet again yesterday and thank goodness no more yucky batril but I have sulfatrim and nice loxy medicine and more bisolvy honking powder to put on apples and I cost another £80! But the vet thought my special honks should cost more than that so I am going to see a specialist that costs lots and lots more money so I can show them my honking which I am very good at! Then I did a big wee on daddy's trousers to celebrate :)
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Oh my word. There’s a specialist for honking is there? That sounds expensive indeed.....
 
PigglePuggle said:
An update from Blodwen:
Blod says... I have still got the honks, mummy is calling me duck girl now and I saw the vet again yesterday and thank goodness no more yucky batril but I have sulfatrim and nice loxy medicine and more bisolvy honking powder to put on apples and I cost another £80! But the vet thought my special honks should cost more than that so I am going to see a specialist that costs lots and lots more money so I can show them my honking which I am very good at! Then I did a big wee on daddy's trousers to celebrate :)
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Dear Blood,
You certainly sound like a very special and complicated piggy - that is my favourite type as I am also quite special.
And of course you deserve to share your specialness with as many people as possible so another vet sounds lovely.
I find that looking all sweet and then giving them a bit of an unexpected nip usually goes over well.
When I did that at our vet she wrote something special at the top of my file, to remind everyone just how wonderful I am.
Your wee trick sounds good too - I shall be sure to remember that the next time the big slave tries to clip my nails.
Love Ruby xx
 
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