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    [OC] Was kostet eine Hundekastration beim Tierarzt in 38 US-Städten?

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    1. illusion121 on

      **Data source:** Clinic-published dog spay prices collected from vet clinic websites in October 2026 (via HowMuchVet, a price-transparency project I run). 212 prices across 43 US cities; the chart shows the 38 cities with at least 2 published prices. Each bar is the median per city, number in parentheses is clinic count.

      **Tools:** Python (matplotlib).

      A few things that stood out: the same surgery runs from a $75 median in Nashville to $524 in Boston, roughly a 7x spread. Chain pricing is visible in the data, six Banfield locations in Chicago all publish $492.95. Low-cost shelters pull several Southern cities way down, Nashville, Memphis and Dallas are all under $90.

      Happy to answer questions or make a version for another procedure.

    2. electric_dynamite on

      so if you live in Austin or Houston, you should drive to Dallas to get your pet spayed.

    4. Brave_Ad_9591 on

      Nashville at $75 and Boston at $524 is absolutely wild. That’s more than some people’s rent for a week.

      I was bracing myself when I got my dog fixed last year, but a low-cost clinic in my area did it for around $120 and she healed up perfectly fine. Always feels like a gamble though when the price gap is that massive. The Banfield thing doesn’t surprise me, they’ve got that whole corporate pricing script locked down.

    5. MyUsernameIsAwful on

      Why is it so much more expensive in Pittsburgh than it is in Philadelphia?

    6. phdoofus on

      Go to the local animal shelter or humane society and have it done. They do them all the time and provide spay/neuter/vax services at low cost and who knows you might find a new forever friend while you’re there.

    9. thentil on

      This is way less than I was imagining, my dog’s spay outside Seattle was 570. Of course there were a lot of lines on the invoice, maybe you’re only reporting on one of those.

    10. heiddds on

      Just booked a spay appointment for my dog here in Finland. It’s gonna cost 820€ + meds. I’m very jealous of these prices.

    11. hyouko on

      From Boston; can confirm that’s around what I paid. Though it was a more complicated than usual operation in my pup’s case.

    12. sirguynate on

      When I moved from Washington to Tennessee, I was floored how cheap the vet was in TN.

      I had a dog in Washington that got sick and was 8k for some routine tests and overnight observations, it was ultimately kidney failure. I have a different dog in TN and had to do biopsy’s, multiple urine tests, multiple blood tests to nail down copper storage disease, I paid 2k.

    13. reallytrulytrue on

      There is no way these prices are accurate. ( Worked in vet med for 30+ years)

    16. gingerbears11 on

      These prices are way cheaper than I’ve ever heard of before and I work in vet med.

    19. PlumpyDragon on

      So if I lived in Austin, I should drive an hour to San Antonio and save $350, seems worth it.

    20. Sleep_adict on

      Note that many places it’s free. My county provides 2 free vouchers per family per year.

      But you need to know and go animal control to pick them up.

      Alternatively if you find a stray, you can take it to animal control, they will check for chip/tattoo and if no owner they will spay, do all vaccinations and hold it 7 days quarantine and you have the right first refusal to adopt it.

    21. reedzkee on

      Cat neuter is like 400-700 in Atlanta.

      Is a dog spay that much easier/cheaper or is this data just wrong

    22. Mediocre_Safety5743 on

      The gap between cities is bigger than I expected. A few of those prices look like double what people are paying in other places.

    24. Donny_Do_Nothing on

      I’ve lived in Cleveland, Austin, San Antonio, and now Houston, and let me tell you, I can definitely tell the difference between walking around a city that costs a hundred bucks to spay/neuter a dog, and one that costs over four hundred.

    26. IHaveToPoopy on

      I think you did this data a disservice by not controlling for other variables. The price of a dog spay can vary greatly depending on the type of clinic/care. I think you’d get a more realistic picture of cost based on city if you also broke down by type of clinic. Private practice, shelter, accepts grants from local gov, university hospital etc. also all dog spays are not the same (laparoscopic vs non) and does the published price include anesthesia, meds tgh, etc or just the procedure. I promise a true spay with everything else included at a private practice is not $75 anywhere in the country. – Veterinarian perspective.

    27. artieartichoke on

      What the heck? I’m in Denver and I just paid $225 at a low cost vet, where is my normal vet one at $800? Guess I didn’t look up enough places??

    31. FoxMiserable2848 on

      I know a lot of people are blaming private equity firms and I agree it’s a problem but vet care in general has gone up because the standard of care has gone up. I see it in people medicine where we do things to rule out the 1 in a million which raises cost. We need more farm style vets who get the job done. Yes. The dog that had the unexpectedly abnormal lab or anatomy that wasn’t caught on pre lab or with Tele anesthesia may have a bad outcome but it would be far overshadowed by the amount saved by actually having access to care. 

    32. ayyylmao88962 on

      I paid 1,200 where I live. Could have done it for maybe 500 at another place but I was on a time crunch and had to go to a private equity owned vet clinic. For the most part, in my state, local family owned vet businesses usually charge 300-700 for a spay.

    33. pomeronion on

      My vet charged over $1000 how are these all so cheap? Mid COL american city, normal vet (not private equity). I asked a friend who’s a vet (but not my vet) and she thought the price was reasonable. What am I missing?

    34. anonymois1111111 on

      I’m so sick of private equity. Why doesn’t Congress close the loophole that lets them get away with this crap.

    35. AZdesertpir8 on

      That must be for a tiny dog.. Our last spay was around $1000 for a 70lb Cane Corso in Phoenix.

    36. Superjondude on

      I shopped around and the rates were from $250-$1400. There was an 8 month wait list for the cheapest. The most expensive was my vet at the time. I ended up paying around 350 and switched vets. I am in South Carolina.

    37. Ciarrai_IRL on

      Why TF is Chicago so high on this list? What determines this cost? I knew I’ve been paying outrageous vet bills all these years.

    38. Ivypearl on

      This is stupid it doesn’t include anesthesia, blood work, medications, appointment fees, and all the other stuff they add on. This is not even close to accurate.

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