My vet is also fairly expensive but I do live in California where everything is expensive. Over the years his consultation fee has gone up from $28.00 in 1997 to $41.50 now. That's an incerease in $13.50 in only 7 years. I looked this up from Storm's vet records.

When I first adopted Storm he was very sick and had a lot of things wrong with him but they were all treateable. I spent almost $300.00 on him back in 1997. I'd hate to think what it would have cost today. He has been worth every penny that I spent on him though and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.