New Kitten Costs?

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Hi
we have a neighbour who has kittens and offered us one.
Was just wondering how much (roughly) it would cost for desexing and vaccinations
Thanks :-)

hi the vaccinations are about £50 for the full course two jabs and neutering is around £40- £50 for a boy cat and about £60-70 for a female cat max depending on where you live i dont know about south of england this is the prices where i live in yorkshire, but cats protection can sometimes give you a voucher for cheaper or free neutering may be worth looking into, but both of these dont need to be done till the kitten is about to go outside for jabs at about 5-6 months and neutering at around 4 months girl and five months boy so time to save up for them

£40-£50 for boys, £80-£90 for girls (locally, you've got to phone around where you are). Hard to get it done under 6 months around here, too. I wouldn't let a girl out before they're fixed. Local CPL offers help with neutering.

£20+ for cat carrier

luckily mine came with jabs already done! But I would think £30-£50 for kitten's first lot.

£5/week per cat for other ongoing running costs, we find (mostly food).

You can get cheap cat carriers in wilkinsons and argos.

We've recently had ours done:
£70 for jabs (in two parts)
£20 for micro chipping
£45 for male neutering

Have a look on the local vets website, ours has all the prices listed.

In Surrey/Berks borders it is £100 for the two jabs, neutering costs £60/100 boys/girls.

Add in Cat litter at £10 per month, Food at £5 per week minimum not forgetting toys/ litter trays/bowls/beds/pet carrier/flea & worm treatments it can add up to a fair amount.

Thanks all - I know the ongoing costs add up but thats not too bad :-)

Just have to arrange to go see them now

Kids will be delighted

Neutering is around £80 here, £20 to chip (we had both done at the same time).

Please make sure you get insurance if the cat is going to be going outside, as we found out this week 'vet bills can be huge if anything goes wrong', we have had our cat for 18 months and have spent getting on to £1000 on vets bills (£500 of thet in the past week after he was hit by a car), i have now insured our cat .

Definately get them insured, we have spent over £500 in the past 5 / 6 weeks since we got our kitten(s), one had to be put to sleep. Vaccinations should be done about 9 weeks and 12 weeks as by about 9 weeks they loose the immunisation from their mum. We got ours from the RSPCA and paid £80 for them each, but basically this covers the cost of the 2 lots of vaccs, chip and nutering. I think your best bet is to ring the vets you would use and see what their charges are.

If I had my time again with our cat I would have just given my pin number to the vets.

Oooooh... they'll love a kitten!

Jabs cost £60.00 where I live (London) yearly. Neutering was about £50.00 too, I think. Ongoing costs are very cheap. You can buy worming and flea treatments in Wilkinsons so please do not be conned into thinking that it would be best to come from the vet.

And if your cat will be an indoors cat, you may want to purchase some little nail clippers for cats - we didn't do ours until 6 months and he hated it. Try to get him/her used to nail clipping as early as possible... you can YouTube how to do it. The vet charges £16.00 a pop to cut his nails!