Dr. Liz Walker

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Australian Finance Podcast · Real cost of pet ownership in Australia · 31 Jan 2022 podcast

So you get the baseline stuff done.

You have a check in there for the older animals so that if something is starting to give, you get onto it before it's a catastrophe.

I think that's a really, and it's really budgetable, right?

You can say, oh, I've got $60 a month that's coming out.

For middle-aged healthy dogs, $30 a month.

And for cats, it works out to be about $540 a year or $45 a month for new animals.

And then just over $300 for middle-aged cats and around $450 for older cats.

So I think talking to your vets about what they might have so that it does lock you in.

But, you know, having a relationship with your veterinary practice is a really good idea.

They have all the history of your animal.

And then, you know, you factored it in.

You don't have to deal with the lumps and bumps.

Yeah.

My understanding, and I guess that'll be different, and I'm not an expert on all those commercial terms, but it'd be a year.

I think you'd sign up on an annual basis.

Yeah, so the reason that it's really important is that there's been a lot of, the veterinary services, if your animal gets ill, the cost of it can go very high, very quickly.

I'm really, as a veterinarian and someone who loves veterinary science and thinks the work of our veterinarians is vital for this country, I'm loathe to say that veterinary care is expensive because I don't think it is at all.

The challenge with, but the challenge is that there's no Medicare and we're so blessed in this country as a human, if you get sick, someone will look after you, you know, more or less.

There is no, there's no Medicare.

And so, you know, so the, you know, if you go to an emergency centre and your animal is critically ill, they will do very similar things to that animal to what they do to you if you were really sick.

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