A week ago we took our cat to be seen. She was very sick with anemia and very low body temp. The vet, in a very, very hard sell tried to get us to put her down, saying that the cost would better be spent filling our oil barrrel this winter. It cost 91 dollars to walk in and would have been over 400 if they treated her overnight, up to 822 if they gave her a transfusion, which they said she needed. My girlfirend almost was swayed. Vets are authority figures and they have the power of an expert, which can very much influence a person, even about such a big choice. \r
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I didn't care for the options...pay a great sum on the spot (they won't bill or do installment payments) or kill the beloved pet. Mercenary! A price tag on a life. I refused to have the dear animal killed and we took her home.\r
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The cat lived the night and in the morning I took her to our own vet. She was nursed back by caring folks in the office we would have taken her to if it had not been a Sunday when she was so ill. T
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