If you got the cash, go for it. Best not be tax payer money.
Their money, they can spend it as they like.
“Jones is improving every day.”
He’d better be improving after $150,000.00.
Brachycephalic consequences.
People create “cute” dogs who suffer for their looks.
Good on Trupanion.
My dogs have it.
People like this give me the creeps. IMO they represent what’s wrong with our society as a whole.
I’ve had pets, I have pets. I love them to pieces. But when you can’t distinguish between a human life and an animal, you have some real problems of the psychological and spiritual variety.
Take a guess at where this couple stands on abortion.
This story reminds me of a stand-up comedian’s routine about his hamster that got sick, and his wife took it to the vet, racking up a $180 vet bill. “To cure that hamster, it cost 8 hamsters.”
Probably a puppy mill dog they got at a puppy boutique. Those are inherently unhealthy dogs bred from genetic nightmares.
Recently seen on a bumper sticker:
My vet drives a Porsche. For details, ask my dog.
RIDICULOUS!!
Over ten years ago, I spent $1,200 for emergency surgery on Norman the Wondercat (see my FR homepage). That was a real stretch, but it was worth it. He recovered completely, and is now 16 years old. He’s sitting next to me as I FReep.
I cannot imagine going to the lengths with any pet that these people are going to. First, I don’t have anywhere near that kind of money; second, I wouldn’t torture any animal with the kinds of procedures that dog is being subjected to.
My other cat Betty (again, see my homepage) died a couple of months ago. She was 14 and had stopped eating. I took her to the vet, who had me force feed her food and medicine, and later kept her at the clinic during her last few days. It cost almost $500 did her no good. If I had it to do again, I would have made her comfortable and let her go in peace instead of torturing her during her last days.
A cat or dog is not a person. You have to know when to let go.
There’s an easy solution to the cost...
It’s called “new dog.”
I have had clients with four thousand dollar vet bills and monthly medication bills for their pets that run into hundreds every month.
It happens a little at a time. First the vet says, we can do some labs, just a couple of hundred dollars. Then saying the labs are inconclusive, a few x-rays, and of course the anesthesia to get the x-rays, there is a quick four hundred. Then well there is the mri, the quick little surgery and pretty soon your talking real money.
I firmly believe that there are vets who play this game with vulnerable people who are then saddled with bills and interest payments.
You can spend as much as you want to. Human level health care is available for pets. Life has value - repairing it costs other lives in terms of work hours; honest question is whether it is worth your own years to give a pet more months.
It’s their money. They can do whatever they like with it.