Prevention and protection
- Vaccinations against rabies and other infectious diseases
- Deworming
- Treatment against external parasites
- general health checks
Impact & transparency
What happens, what it costs and what is still open.
We document costs, responsibilities and progress as far as data protection, animal welfare and available records allow. Open points are explicitly flagged.
Current data status
Veterinary costs 23 March to 20 July 2026
One area has been fully analysed so far: veterinary care. 32 individual invoices totalling €3,954.70 including VAT, which corresponds to around €1,000 per month. In addition there are first orders of magnitude estimated by Margo herself: around 150 to 180 cats live permanently in her care and are neutered, at a flat rate of €50 per procedure. In the free-living colonies she estimates around 150 further animals are not yet neutered – for financial reasons. The breakdown can be found further down this page.
What is not yet available: a regular progress report as well as analysed figures for food, transport and materials. We publish these only once they are documented – not as an estimate dressed up as a metric.
Documented period: 23 March to 20 July 2026
32
Tierarztrechnungen
3.954,70 €
total costs incl. VAT
around €1,000
average veterinary costs per month
123,58 €
average invoice amount
765,51 €
VAT included
307,30 €
discounts granted by the practice
Services
Where the costs come from
Care includes both regular preventive services and medical interventions that cannot be planned in advance. In the documented period the following services, among others, were invoiced:
Diagnostics
- clinical examinations
- FIV and FeLV rapid tests
- blood tests
- urine tests
- further case-specific investigations
Treatment
- medication and antibiotics
- pain management
- wound care
- treatment of acute illness and injury
- medical consumables
Inpatient care
- admission and monitoring of sick animals
- catheters and follow-up treatment
- care across several treatment sessions
Identification and documentation
- microchips
- pet passports
- documentation of vaccination status
Concrete
Three real cost situations
What an amount means in practice is best shown by cases actually invoiced.
15 €
Targeted basic care
A single deworming treatment can be invoiced for a modest amount. Such smaller services occur regularly, however, and add up when many animals are being cared for.
145 €
Prevention and identification
For one cat, vaccination, rabies vaccination, microchip, pet passport and an FIV/FeLV test were combined in a single appointment.
361 €
Complex medical case
For one sick cat, an FIV/FeLV test, a urine test, inpatient care, a catheter, blood tests and medical consumables came together.
Context
Why the costs fluctuate
Predictable services such as vaccinations, parasite treatments or tests form an ongoing baseline of care. Illness, injury and inpatient stays, by contrast, are only partly foreseeable.
In the period analysed, individual invoices ranged between 15 € and 439,20 €. Nine of the 32 invoices were at least €150.
The average expenditure of around €1,000 per month describes this specific period. It is not a blanket cost forecast for future months.
Nor does the number of animals cared for alone fully explain the costs. What matters is their state of health, the diagnostics required and the scope of treatment in each case.
Principle
Our understanding of transparency
We publish aggregated figures and traceable examples, without disclosing personal data or medically unnecessary details.
The underlying records contain
- date of treatment
- invoice number
- animal name or group
- services invoiced
- discounts granted
- VAT
- invoice amount
Who invoices and who documents
This statement was issued by the treating veterinary practice to Murka Katzenhilfe e. V. . Margo Animal Care documents the treatments and costs recorded therein at this point.
The overview will be updated once a further, fully checked accounting period is complete. This keeps it traceable which medical services were provided and what actual costs arose from them.
Data basis
Responsibilities
Who decides what
Transparency means not only showing figures, but also who is accountable for them.
Margo
Daily care, decisions about each individual animal, choice of treatments together with the practices, and personal approval of every rehoming.
The initiative
Documentation, cost records, coordination of volunteers, communication and this website. It makes no medical decisions and handles no donations.
Murka-Katzenhilfe e. V.
Donation processing, donation receipts as well as applications, vetting and decisions for rehoming to Germany.
Vets4life and OmniVET
Medical diagnosis and treatment, neutering and the invoicing of services provided. The records from these practices form the basis of the cost analysis.
The precise contractual role of the partner association is currently being confirmed in writing. Until then we describe here only what is actually already practised.
Support us
These costs arise afresh every month.
Around €1,000 a month for veterinary care alone – plus food, neutering and transport. Those who help carry this work make it predictable.