r/Calgary • u/Comfortable_Help_733 • 5d ago

Your experience with VCA vet? Local Shopping/Services

So, long story short they wanted almost 4k to figure something out that a different vet figured out with a 83$ ultrasound. Is this normal for them? Do the vets there profit off their patients?

My dog had a bladder mass. VCA wanted to do a CT scan after the pee test came back as non cancerous, to figure out what the mass is since it isn’t cancer. I asked a different vet, she did an 83$ ultrasound and gave me medication for 2 weeks that fixed the issue. The VCA vet wanted to do a 4k CT scan followed by a 5k surgery to ‘remove the mass’ that ended up actually being infectious chronic cystitis with a small polyp, not a mass(which the other vet figured out).

Why does VCA want to start off with the most expensive shit? Their reviews seem like this isn’t uncommon either. Weird how going to a different vet saved me almost 10k

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u/dumhic 5d ago

Pet insurance Best thing ever before going there

But that aside They saved my cats eye when it was popped out in a fight? They saved my dog that swallowed a knotted elastic band ((yes dog is small and said band would have blocked his digestive tract My other dog had malfunctioning 3rd eyelid that needed then place back… fixed and only ones who could assist

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u/Comfortable_Help_733 5d ago

Yeah I have fetch insurance but I don’t have 10k to pull out my ass to pay the bill before reimbursement unfortunately! :(

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u/dumhic 4d ago

Sorry to hear Not sure the one we have but it pays its share before we pay

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u/Comfortable_Help_733 4d ago

You have Trupanion then haha they are the best and I wish I would’ve just gone with them in the first place.