Crystal, those prices are quite a bit lower than here.

Example: An office visit is $40 per pet. I take in at least 3 at a time to get the multi pet discount, so that drops to $36.50 PER PET. Take it from there.

Vets around here won't sell you the heart worm preventative UNLESS you get the heartworm test, at least every other year. They try to get you to do it every year. Dogs and cats alike. Heartworm is prevalent here, and is a year round issue, in spite of our winters.

I was told that if you use the prevention year round, and can prove it, and the pet then develops heartworm in an annual / bi annual test, the prevention company will pay for the treatment. This was earlier this week, I had to take in 3 for their annuals: Sugar, Sparkle and Ebony.

My cats are indoor only, and I've stopped doing TNR, so I don't have any cats coming through here, so we (the vet and I) decided they don't need the Feline Leukemia shot anymore. That saved me a bit of money.

And yes, you can take your pets to PetCo, or PetsMart for the weekly clinics. I don't think I'd take a cat, too likely to get away from me and dash through the store! As for the dogs, myf riend took hers last month; and they all caught kennel cough. Since her dogs don't go anywhere (mine go to doggie playgroups etc) she and her vet decided that had to be the place they caught it. So all the moeny she saved going to the clinic, got spent on treating the kennel cough; PLUS a bit MORE money. Sigh.