Dog drug may cost more
PA Wellington Dog owners may be faced with an extra fee of between $2 and $8 a year because the Government has dropped its subsidy on the hydatid dosing drug, Droncit. The chief executive officer of the National Hydatids Council, Mr Kees Kasper, said that the fee for city
dogs, which only needed to be treated once or twice a year, would probably rise $1 or $2. The fee for farm dogs, which had to be dosed every six weeks, might rise by as much as $7 or $B. Mr Kasper said that he was dismayed at the Government’s action in dropping the subsidy of $1 million a year at a time when hydatids had
almost been totally eradicated. He said that hydatid control programmes had been going for 23 years, and within three years the infection could be completely eradicated in New Zealand. Mr Kasper said that he was a little worried that the extra cost might encourage people to opt out of dosing.
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