$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'Y')ou guys aren't fooling about Vet hospitals. Last month my indoor cat got her stomach cut on something outside and I had to take her to the emergency room to get stiched up. 5 hours later I got soaked for $400. Now I use to be a insurance adjuster a few years ago and I love the vigorous debate on bullshit charges but these guys have their bases covered. Not all vets are like this including my normal vet but dang, I wonder if the mob has it's hands in this business.
FYI-I had to sign a DNR waiver when they put the cat under to do stitches. Ever wonder how much it costs to give a cat CPR after midnight at a emergency room in Dallas? $750!! If they use the paddles it's $1200!!!
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Venting gripes and annoyances
Re: Venting gripes and annoyances
by duke3522 » Fri 27 Jan 2006, 18:42:02
This kind of stuff really bothers me. The middle and lower classes are slowly being priced right out of pet ownership. Since I got hurt I have always known I would not have very much money or material things, but I have always had the companionship of a good dog. But taking a dog to the vet is now a $150 proposition for shots and heart worm meds. And now that our cocker has gotten up there in years they want to see her 2 times a year. Hell I can hardly afford once a year.
So I have pretty much decided that my male Akita-mix (son of one of my girls) will be my last dog. And I sure am hoping that whatever genes his papa brought to the party help ward off that damn bloat. My two girls, both full blood akitas. were two of the gentlest souls you would ever want to meet. After Molly died Maggie got out one night and now we have Morgan. I think I might have seen his papa once, a shepard mix running with a pack.
But back to the subject. Today our pets become too expensive to own. Tomorrow my house becomes to expensive to heat, the next day my car is to expensive to drive. The next I'm living in the car.
Let me tell you folks, it won't be me because most days I am lucky to be able to walk, but there are plenty off folks out there who don't mind living what most would call a poor life. But cut off the stuff that is importent to us, like our animals and a decent home and there will be trouble.
I have said it before. PO is not a top down crisisbut a bottom up one. Do you want to see how bad things are getting look at how the poorest amongest us live. PO will not suddenly burst upon us because of headlines on the front page, but will slowly creep along reported as the poor getting what they deserve.
Sorry about carrying on.
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Re: Venting gripes and annoyances
by PenultimateManStanding » Fri 27 Jan 2006, 19:14:40
I hear there's people spending $50,000 to have their cats cloned. 
The thought of it makes meOW! 
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Re: Venting gripes and annoyances
by PrairieMule » Fri 27 Jan 2006, 20:07:13
If you give a man a fish you will have kept him from hunger for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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Re: Venting gripes and annoyances
by mgibbons19 » Fri 27 Jan 2006, 20:27:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('duke3522', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'Y')ou guys aren't fooling about Vet hospitals. Last month my indoor cat got her stomach cut on something outside and I had to take her to the emergency room to get stiched up. 5 hours later I got soaked for $400. Now I use to be a insurance adjuster a few years ago and I love the vigorous debate on bullshit charges but these guys have their bases covered. Not all vets are like this including my normal vet but dang, I wonder if the mob has it's hands in this business.
FYI-I had to sign a DNR waiver when they put the cat under to do stitches. Ever wonder how much it costs to give a cat CPR after midnight at a emergency room in Dallas? $750!! If they use the paddles it's $1200!!!
FYI-I had to sign a DNR waiver when they put the cat under to do stitches. Ever wonder how much it costs to give a cat CPR after midnight at a emergency room in Dallas? $750!! If they use the paddles it's $1200!!!
This kind of stuff really bothers me. The middle and lower classes are slowly being priced right out of pet ownership. Since I got hurt I have always known I would not have very much money or material things, but I have always had the companionship of a good dog. But taking a dog to the vet is now a $150 proposition for shots and heart worm meds. And now that our cocker has gotten up there in years they want to see her 2 times a year. Hell I can hardly afford once a year.
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I have said it before. PO is not a top down crisisbut a bottom up one. Do you want to see how bad things are getting look at how the poorest amongest us live. PO will not suddenly burst upon us because of headlines on the front page, but will slowly creep along reported as the poor getting what they deserve.
Sorry about carrying on.
Duke In Indiana
I don't know where you are in Indiana Duke, but I bet we took our cat to that vet. Just to have a stupid cat for the children is one 40$ shot/appt after another month after month after month. They wanted an obscene amount of money to neuter her. I started shopping around and their prices were easily three times the place I settled on.
This is gonna be a bottom up thing. You are right. One family's disaster after another.
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