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I think the issue isn't the price but whether the cat is 'worth' spending the money on.
We bought a cat, £5 from a farm, a couple of weeks later it got out and run over. Night time dash to vets etc, >£200 to save it's life. Only pet we had that we hadn't got round to insuring, did we pay up yes we did.
The punch line top this is that a few years on the cat move sin with the next door neighbour (buying a Border terrier might have been a factor)! Most expensive cat we've ever had.
We bought a cat, £5 from a farm, a couple of weeks later it got out and run over. Night time dash to vets etc, >£200 to save it's life. Only pet we had that we hadn't got round to insuring, did we pay up yes we did.
The punch line top this is that a few years on the cat move sin with the next door neighbour (buying a Border terrier might have been a factor)! Most expensive cat we've ever had.
miniman said:
anonymous said:
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I’m sure it is a vary fair price for the work undertaken. I question the sanity of spending it on fixing an animal which will, at best, have a wobbly and tiresome existence.
Having worked in Kuwait in the early 80's a friend of mine brought back a dog the family had adopted. Cargo hold BA flight followed by quarantine at Heathrow for several months with weekend trips for the kids to see fido.
Come the day they collected the pet took him home and on its first road crossing the dog looked the wrong way and was run over.
Lesson to be learned ..........don't buy a LHD dog.
Come the day they collected the pet took him home and on its first road crossing the dog looked the wrong way and was run over.
Lesson to be learned ..........don't buy a LHD dog.
Vets bills are ludicrous, I think in a similar way to the US healthcare system they assume everyone is insured so just charge what they want to.
Came home from work one evening around 5 years ago and my 2 year old Birman had somehow dislocated his front paw. (no idea how as he's an indoor cat)
Rushed him to the emergency vet. $1800 later he was home and seemed fine. 3 days later it had popped out again. Different vet said he needed his whole arm amputated. $3500 later he was home healthy but with an arm.
2 months later I decided to move back to Europe (From Sydney) another $2k in flights for the cat.
This was 5 years ago and I don't regret spending the money at all.
The one thing which did annoy me was when I asked a local vet what it would cost here (Poland) for the same operation he said less than 500 pln (100 GBP)
Vets bills are extortionate however you can't put a price on a life (And they know this)
Came home from work one evening around 5 years ago and my 2 year old Birman had somehow dislocated his front paw. (no idea how as he's an indoor cat)
Rushed him to the emergency vet. $1800 later he was home and seemed fine. 3 days later it had popped out again. Different vet said he needed his whole arm amputated. $3500 later he was home healthy but with an arm.
2 months later I decided to move back to Europe (From Sydney) another $2k in flights for the cat.
This was 5 years ago and I don't regret spending the money at all.
The one thing which did annoy me was when I asked a local vet what it would cost here (Poland) for the same operation he said less than 500 pln (100 GBP)
Vets bills are extortionate however you can't put a price on a life (And they know this)
t in the neighbour i hate's garden jumare said:
I think the issue isn't the price but whether the cat is 'worth' spending the money on.
We bought a cat, £5 from a farm, a couple of weeks later it got out and run over. Night time dash to vets etc, >£200 to save it's life. Only pet we had that we hadn't got round to insuring, did we pay up yes we did.
The punch line top this is that a few years on the cat move sin with the next door neighbour (buying a Border terrier might have been a factor)! Most expensive cat we've ever had.
Bit what if it had been £2000???We bought a cat, £5 from a farm, a couple of weeks later it got out and run over. Night time dash to vets etc, >£200 to save it's life. Only pet we had that we hadn't got round to insuring, did we pay up yes we did.
The punch line top this is that a few years on the cat move sin with the next door neighbour (buying a Border terrier might have been a factor)! Most expensive cat we've ever had.
I like our cat but I don't "love" him in anyway. If it was £2k for a leg off or the injection he'd be off to sleep.
I'd remortgage the house for my dog though. She's my favourite child.
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