Book Of Records: Biggest Vet Bill

On this week's Book of Records Lisa & Russell opened the phone and textlines to ask listeners about their biggest vet bills and wow, there were some big ones. Plus Dr Jacob from Fetch Mobile Vets phoned in to share his tales of big bills.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
He set another record, incredible world record. Russell Spook of records.
We've never seen anything like it.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have opened it up. We're looking for Way's biggest
vet bill.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
When you saw the bill, did you need a dose
of smelling souls to bring you around? Isn't that big?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Did you request the camone yourself?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Mel In Woodridge? Hello, morning, melt.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Me?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Well, uh.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Our just move a little to the left?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Is breaking up a little bit?

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Is that good?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's good? Let's go for a record.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Shepherd puppies they're about eighteen months old, brother and sister
and I went to the shop and bought some little
fleet tick and warming pip hats, you know the little
ones that put on the back of the neck behind
the in betwain hair, and bought them, Yeah, and put
them on the pool table out in the game's room, thinking,

(01:22):
but I've taken them out of the the very tight
packet that they come in and put them on the
pool table, getting ready for like to put them on
the dogs next with my husband and then next went inside,
got sidetracked. Is something next minute, well, probably about twenty
minutes later we go out there to do it, and
they're like laying on the ground the packets, the tickets

(01:44):
are or ripped apart.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
And.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah they ate all the little oil like this
is good.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, these are the ones that are designed to be absorbed.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, putting it in the skin. We can't reach. I
can't leave things or dogs. No, So what happened after
the vat?

Speaker 4 (02:09):
So they were poisoned and we didn't We thought, oh, ship,
that's what's open because it was a Sunday night. And
next minute where loading them into the car. And because
we live out of Woodridge, so it's like a fifty
minute trip to the vat. Yes, and oh it was horrible.
They were on the back seat and they were like

(02:31):
vomiting and shaking, and oh, might.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Have at least been good that they were vomiting.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Perhaps get some of it up, did they did they
have to have their little stomachs pumped?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes, yet they had all that done. And then the
vet were thinking that the chief, our boy was going
to be blind. So yeah, he had to stay in
for a couple of extra nights.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
So what was the bill? What did it come to?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Uh? Just shy, just like fifty shy of nine and
a half thousand. Oh who had to take bagling out
pretty much.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Boy. For all that money though, did it all end well,
I've never had a fleep.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
No, not one in ten months now.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Probably not for another ten. Thanks. Thanks, Oh my god,
it's lucky. We love them, it is. I think that
they go nearly ten grand, that's how much we love them.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, and we're looking for WA's biggest vet bill this
morning carrying bulls Brook. Bullsbrook says to me, maybe horse.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Big animals with big bills, big bills. What do you
got carried? But I'm not talking platypus.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
No. Yes, we had a good year. A couple of
years ago my mayor had a penetration wound dinner, So
five surgery, five surgeries later, three and a half months
at the vet and twenty eight thousand dollars. Very she's

(04:08):
very precious. The blessing is they saved her eye at
the front and the back, but not at the side. Yeah,
it was traumatic. And then at the end of the year,
my dash hound ate my knickers and hang on. It
was the most expensive pair of knickers I've ever bought.
Can He costas just under thirteen grand. He had half

(04:31):
his castns removed and they gave me the remnants of
my knickers.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
When you're gone back and a sausage dog has a
long intestine, so I just didn't.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Believe it was the way.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh honestly, Yeah, it was a bad year. Yeah, we
were lots of weekends. Yeah, I love them dearly.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
But oh my god, oh manky, yeahs out there that
is well and truly up there.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
It is definitely all they're worth it. Love them dearly,
but sometimes yeah, shake your head right absolutely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh yeah, Well, Kerry, thank you very much. You may
well be into the record.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Books, well, not coming in with an entry as such,
but we wanted to catch up with our friend doctor
Jacob from Fetch Mobile Vettes to see what are some
of the really big bills that he has come across.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Good morning, Dr Jacob, Morning doctor eight guys.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
How's it going good?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's good. We just had a thirty eight thousand dollar
bill for all Kerry.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
We've had some big ones.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
What are some of the really big ones you've seen? Well,
some of the.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Ones that I've sort of given out myself. Had a
PAVO puppy not long ago. Okay, thing didn't get vaccinated
and was out the park and court Pavo that was
about thirteen, fourteen thousand after two weeks in ICEU. That's
probably one of the biggest that I've given out personally.

(06:03):
But then you sort of look at the other ones
in terms of ones I've heard of, and you can
sort of start to look at the orthopedic diseases. So
like spinal surgery hip replacements, they can get up there
quite high. But there was one recently that was a
poor doggie, a little kelpie ate a mop head, and

(06:24):
it caused what we call a linear foreign body. So
that's where basically the intestines and the stomach or twist
on itself because it's got stuck inside. So that poor
doggie had a good three four weeks in ICU and
about three or four surgeries to remove his intestine. He

(06:45):
came out at about thirty five thousand dollars who all up,
and he survived. He's on a lot of medications now,
but he survives. So they're probably the biggest ones. But yeah,
the orthopedic ones can really get quite high.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
It's a pretty good, pretty good reminder that pet insurance
is probably not a bad idea.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yes, absolutely, it's really good for those.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, So hit replacements, you know, they can go for
about ten thousand. Yeah, definitely a good idea with pensurance
for those emergency type stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
All right, well, thank you for you've seen some big ones. Yes,
you have seen some big ones and we love what
you do. Talk to you. Keep on the job, doctor Jacob.
There you go, doctor Jacob Well from Fetch Mobile Vets.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
All right, we have a new entry in the book
of records. It is Kerrie in Bullsbrook whose horses eye
injury ran her up to thirty eight thousand dollars and
then just kicking the thirteen grand for the sausage dog
eating Kerry's nickers.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
That sentence wasn't on your bingo card today.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
That was bad?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
The eye injury. The horse is fine, it just can't
give side. Eye can't see the side. It's brutal visions.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Not great.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
But it didn't go all blinkers, No, not at all.