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If you can, try to find a practice that hasn't been bought up by private equity.
Pumping prices on pet care is another straight up evil thing happening, because people will pay anything for love.
With the result that people who really can't afford it, either go into debt or lose their pets early.
I've no doubt the staff are friendly, and that the vets genuinely care.
I myself was with the same practice for ten years, and the price for the yearly checkup was reasonable.
Until my boy was diagnosed with kidney failure. The care was excellent, and the diagnosis correct, but the price for the bloodwork and kidney ultrasound raised eyebrows.
I went looking. Straight up scam. The place was owned by a group that owned several other vets in the area, all with a pattern of low prices for the basics, and then 5-10 times the "norm" for everything beyond that.
The next practice over charged 1/5 for the same bloodwork, and could have saved me over a 1000€ on the ultrasound.
So, just double check. If you're getting the best price in your area without compromising on the care, good. But if you haven't made sure, you should.
Sweet baby. I’m sure you will make the right decision for her.
One of my cats got a urinary blockage and it cost $5k to clean out his pp.
If you have a male cat, you've got a 50% chance of it happening. And it's either fork up the money or put it down before it goes into full renal failure and cardiac arrest. Get pet insurance.
If you get your male cat to drink more water, then the chances of a blockage go down. If you give them canned wetfood and pour in a couple extra empty cans of water too, they'll drink it all up and stay nice and hydrated!
Ok, this is going to sound awful, but when it goes wrong, take her in your arms and snuggle her for as long as you want and THEN call the vet and arrange her box etc. I didn't when our baby collapsed, I was all organised and stuff instead of sitting down with him.
she is such a sweetie and i know how hard that L was to type. I've had just the type they just get right up ins your heart.
But she's your baby girl
Why not tho. If it's just because of money, I won't protest in the slightest for those morons wanting to
Wild response. If someone is willing and able to afford it, and the animal's quality of life remains reasonable, why?
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