Additional charge for intact dogs?

That's actually pretty laughable, from a logical standpoint.

Well to be fair the rate of compliance for licensing any pets in a lot of cities is pretty abysmal, regardless of the cost or reproductive status of the pet.

Yes, and it reeks of BSL. In Tucson you can have your dog altered for free IF it's a pit bull.

I didn't qualify when I had an intact female shepherd, even though we were waaay under the poverty level at the time. Why? Well, she was the wrong breed of course! But it's okay if people have whoops litters as long as they're shepherd and chi mixes. As long as it's not a bully.

The weird thing is they didn't have an income cap on it either. So I could have been making $100,000 a year and still had my bully altered for free.

If it was really about lowering the overall population of unwanted dogs, there would be spay neuter assistance for all breeds and mixes.

I don't understand. This is a pit bull and Rottweiler specific rescue. They are working to reduce the number of dogs they'd be taking in.

:hail::hail::hail:

I use a breeder vet. She's 100% fantastic, has done my dogs right every time. She sometimes gives me discounts and while her prices aren't the lowest out there, they're extremely reasonable and for her amount of experience and expertise, it's a bargain.

Oh! I missed the part where you said it was privately funded by the rescue. In that case it makes sense. In Tucson it was funded by the county, which made it have that BSL stink.

I've never heard of vets doing this... seems weird. And of course odd. You can obviously tell if a male is neutered or not but if I popped Pepper in front of somebody, how would you know if you're supposed to charge me extra or not? Weird.

I've never heard of vets doing this... seems weird. And of course odd. You can obviously tell if a male is neutered or not but if I popped Pepper in front of somebody, how would you know if you're supposed to charge me extra or not? Weird.

I don't know about a low cost place that doesn't keep records, but at least in a "regular" clinic they'd ask about sex on their info sheet. Nice to know if you have an intact female or not when you're trying to decide if she's in heat or if something bad is going on. Lol

Yeah, but let's say you're making an appointment and you discover it's more $$ for the appointment and for vaccinations and stuff if you have an intact dog... if they ask you if your bitch is intact or not, and you know saying "yes" is going to cost you more money... are you going to be honest?

Also on the subject of records, my old vet clinic has Auggie down in their records as being intact. He hasn't had balls since he was eight months old. And somehow Payton who first came to them when he was 13 weeks old is down as being neutered. what what what

I guess I think of low cost clinics not having a building - more like vaccine clinics at, say, TSC. Do they take all your information like that, or just briefly examine, then poke?

I guess I think of low cost clinics not having a building - more like vaccine clinics at, say, TSC. Do they take all your information like that, or just briefly examine, then poke?

Are these only low cost clinics we're talking about? I thought Fran said her vet charges more for intact dogs... I thought we were talking about just vets in general doing this.