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My friends pony has cushings and her treatment from the vets was £100 a month too but... there is something you can get from the pharmacy, some pills you can get a vet to write you a prescription and go and pick them up its like £8 per box and they work wonders! Soo much cheaper! Id get your friend to ask the vet about them, alot of vets recomend them round here.
My friends pony has cushings and her treatment from the vets was £100 a month too but... there is something you can get from the pharmacy, some pills you can get a vet to write you a prescription and go and pick them up its like £8 per box and they work wonders! Soo much cheaper! Id get your friend to ask the vet about them, alot of vets recomend them round here.
£100 a month, yikes!! Is that for peroglide?? My horse is on peroglide- my vet sourced the human drug for me, which is much cheaper than the horse drug. One 1mg tablet is costing me roughly 88p. Thankfully my horse only needs half a tablet per day.
Unfortunately, I think you'd be very lucky to find a sanctuary that would take on a horse that needs that much money spent on it.
Hi
My friends pony has cushings and her treatment from the vets was £100 a month too but... there is something you can get from the pharmacy, some pills you can get a vet to write you a prescription and go and pick them up its like £8 per box and they work wonders! Soo much cheaper! Id get your friend to ask the vet about them, alot of vets recomend them round here.
Thank you. As far as i'm aware the drug has no human equivalent i.e it can't be bought in a pharmacy, but it's worth a try
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Unfortunately, I think you'd be very lucky to find a sanctuary that would take on a horse that needs that much money spent on it.
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what about some of the horse sancturies down south, i think there is a redwings and a few others! Its only a few hours in a horse box if they would take him
This is an unfair assesment of the owner, whom you dont know from Adam. I know of people who own horses who do insure, and they have all the wordly goods... but the horses lead a rough and misrable life.
I hardly know anyone from Adam on this board I still give my view.
I couldn't afford to spend 5k on my horse tomorrow if it came down with an illness, insurance is mandatory for someone like me, turning it in to a santuary when times get tought simply increases the strain these places are under. I think extended forethought is required when considering taking on a horse... inc having to spend £100 a month which really is only £25 per week - some people pay more than that on suppliments.
BUT you can pay insurance for years and once they get beyond a certain age i.e. 15 plus - you can on a lot of policies get accident only, not illness, and cushings tends to show up late in life.
I doubt i could justify spending £100 a week, out of my own funds, for my horse, given i have 4 others to support. i have 2 horses now that are slowly creeping towards the point when they are uninsurable. and one donkey beyond that and another one getting there soon.
Given I don't have private healthcare for myself, you sometimes DO have to call time on economic grounds. Not because you want to but because you are not a bottomless pit.
Healthcare rationing is happening now for people, so it's not surprising that for animals it is even worse. Most charities cannot/will not take on a horse that is going to cost them buckets every month.
I doubt i could justify spending £100 a week, out of my own funds, for my horse, given i have 4 others to support. i have 2 horses now that are slowly creeping towards the point when they are uninsurable. and one donkey beyond that and another one getting there soon.
Given I don't have private healthcare for myself, you sometimes DO have to call time on economic grounds. Not because you want to but because you are not a bottomless pit.
Healthcare rationing is happening now for people, so it's not surprising that for animals it is even worse. Most charities cannot/will not take on a horse that is going to cost them buckets every month.
I hope you find help at some stage, I think red wings is a good one, again depending on amounts of £ signs, but for others to comments on insurance yes hinsight is good but heh ho, we only human and things happen, that life. I hope all goes well big hug.
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