Trent L Taylor, 21. Deceased
Posted on 05/15/2023 11:02:25 AM PDT by LTC.Ret
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Shively police said a man is dead after a shooting at Shively Animal Clinic & Hospital Sunday afternoon.
Sergeant Jordan Brown with Shively police said officers were called to respond to the 2400 block of Dixie Highway around 6:27 p.m.
The call initially came in reporting a fight that broke out inside the business that later developed into a shooting.
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“They killed my Fluffy . . . they’re gong to die!”
“fur baby”
Somebody wouldn’t sell them critter tranquilizers?
always remember, there are no bad guns, just bad owners, the gun wasn't raised right
Trent L Taylor, 21. Deceased
How many of your patrons want miracles for free?
You might be surprised to know.
Some think animal systems are very different from human, and think there is a one shot cure for everything, even cancer. Some think they pay just a small co-pay for their own medical care, which makes them think a couple hundred dollars for tests, treatments, and hospital care for a pet patient is gouging -— never considering they pay every month for their insurance to cover their medical bills even if they never use it and the money is just insurance company profit.
Some are shocked that it takes just as long for a dog/cat bone to heal as it does for our own, and that it takes just as much support by a cast/pin/plate/screws plus quiet time to allow the bone to heal.
Most don’t know or realize that a “simple” dog/cat “spay” is exactly the same procedure as our surgical complete hysterectomy, requiring all the same surgical suite, instruments, anesthetics, suture, and skill as the $15,000-$20,000 surgery on a human patient -— yet many are upset by a $200-$500 total bill, and yes some expect it to be free because the 501C3 donation and grant funded rescue and humane groups will do it for “free” because “they care.”
And it is shocking to hear in one breath how their “furbaby” is like their child, and then in the next breath that no one should have to pay “that much” for its medical care because it’s an animal.
Veterinary medicine is an odd world compared to human medicine -— the same in so many ways, and yet completely different.
Life long farmer here, experience with cattle, hogs, horses, cats and dogs. Yes, I would be surprised to think people actually believe such. People imagine tiny co-pays without insurance? Surprising, for sure. Too surprising.
Thanks for the insight. I’ve never been a pet owner myself, but several family members have been long time pet owners. Fortunately for them, most of the decisions have been when to put down an aged pet that is suffering. My parents had a young poodle that had a twisted stomach and needed emergency surgery. The dog died the next day and the bill came to several thousand dollars, which my parents paid..
My average yearly Vet bill is about 3000 dollars and that’s just for regular check ups and shots.
All the pain meds (some of my boys and girls are getting older) and tick and flea stuff plus heartworm chews and thyroid medication of all things.
I am 73 and my boys and girls take more meds than I do!
For about 8 years running it was about 14,000 dollars a year, (heartworm treatment, hip surgeries, stitches after getting into fights with bears, and all the standard screwups my dogs can do).
I DO NOT BEGRUDGE MY VETERANARIAN ONE SINGLE CENT OF THOSE COSTS, HIM AND HIS ENTIRE STAFF ARE THE GREATEST!!!!!!!!
I wouldn’t trade DOCTOR NICKERSON and TRINITY ANIMAL HOSPITAL for any other doctor or animal (or human) hospital in the world!
Bless you!!! And I’ll bet your Vet would say:
I wouldn’t trade 5th MEB and his boys and girls for any other client or patients in the world!
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