If you’re a pet owner, see if you can answer this question: What is the most expensive vet bill you’ve ever received?
No matter how you slice it, veterinarian bills can be astronomical. Even if you have pet insurance or see a vet with low office visit fees, a routine checkup for your pet can cost hundreds of dollars.
At the end of the day, we care about our furry friends, and many of us feel we’d pay any amount of money to keep them safe and healthy.
But how would you feel if you racked up a $1,129 vet bill on a pet hamster you purchased for $20?
TikTok user Elizabeth (@sarahcaceresx) went viral in April with over 28,000 likes on a video about her pet hamster who needed to be taken to the vet.
Her pet hamster, Chele, was sick, so she took him to a 24-hour emergency vet clinic in Katy, Texas.
She purchased Chele from a store for $20, but her estimated vet bill could’ve bought her at least 56 more Cheles.
The itemized list of services Chele needed ended up costing $1,129, and Elizabeth shows the bill in her video.
Viewers can see that the most expensive service Chele needed during his visit was an X-ray study with STAT review, which cost $587.43.
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It also cost Elizabeth $184 for Chele to receive his emergency exam, and another item listed on her invoice, ‘Contingency Treatment & Diagnostics,’ cost $150.
Those large numbers, combined with the medicines and other fees Chele racked up during his time with the emergency vet, is what pushed the total amount over $1,000.
Elizabeth has yet to post an update on Chele, but we hope the little guy is doing alright. He can be seen in another video on her account from 2022 happily eating a strawberry.
Pet owners took to Elizabeth’s comment section to share their stories of expensive vet visits. The top-liked comment came from a user who lost their pet guinea pig, Teddy, after the vet said he needed a $2,500 for surgery with only a 30% survival rate.
@sarahcaceresx He better live up to 10 years #hamsters
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