it really does depend on what types of vet you go to ,eg town /country vets ,i have been ripped off by vets but ive found myself a really great country vet ,i took a stray jill in last summer and she needed an emergency spay ,vet was out and saying ferret was coming round from the op before i had finished signing papers thought then it would be a second mortgage ,but i was only charged just over £35 .so just get the phone book out and ring around