Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
A good friend of mine, who is a retired vet told me about a time (about 20/25 years ago) when she and her husband (also a retired vet) were working out costs at the practice they ran. He was a specialist orthopaedic surgery and brought a lot of money into the practice. She was a rabbit specialist and brought a lot of interesting cases into the practice but not the same kind of income. One morning, whilst they were both doing theatre work, they compared timings and earnings. One particular surgery, she was doing a rabbit spay, very fiddly and time consuming (rabbit uteruses are miniscule), he was doing a repair to a spinal problem in a dog. They spent the same amount of time doing the surgery. Her surgery brought in £100, his brought in £600.
When I first started using that practice for neuters, I observed that they were about 20% more expensive than the local vets, but went there due to the rabbit specialist doing the surgery. I can understand why the practices that were offering vaccinations/neutering as loss leaders have stopped doing it as even charging the reasonable cost is not the most lucrative of work.
