Nature & Animals Dog had an emergency surgery

HoiceNJuicy said:
Pet insurance sounds like a good investment when you hear of someone's dog or cat having an extraordinary incident, like the TS's pooch (glad he's gonna be fine).

I worked out the math, all ballpark of course, because my wife and I have had five dogs over 23 years (some of those dogs overlapped). I picked a middle-of-the-road monthly rate for pet insurance, which apparently climbs in price over the years like everything else, and I determined that of the handful of health emergencies that would have been eligible for coverage, we'd still be out several thousand dollars in premium payments.

The insurance industry generally does quite well for a reason (except in Florida these days, but that's a different story).
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I appreciate the breakdown on this. In my opinion, the insurance just spreads out the pain over years.
 
mjmj said:
And thats why these places exist, because people pay it with no questions. These cocksuckers are turning the pet industry into the health industry, and people actually think they care about anything but milking every penny they can.
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Selfishly I didn't blink an eye but I agree with you. I think 20 years ago, you just let the dog die. Our culture makes animals family and I'm okay with that personally.
 
Red Beard said:
Selfishly I didn't blink an eye but I agree with you. I think 20 years ago, you just let the dog die. Our culture makes animals family and I'm okay with that personally.
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There are plenty of vets that will save your pet and not fuck you dry in the process. But they’re usually not as flashy or easy to find as the crooks.
 
mjmj said:
There are plenty of vets that will save your pet and not fuck you dry in the process. But they’re usually not as flashy or easy to find as the crooks.
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I live too remote for that lol
 
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Red Beard said:
I'm sure cats are cheaper as they are a lot less maintenance. The big things are torn ligaments, broken bones, and stuff like this. I don't think cats have those issues commonly.
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Yeah, with cats its usually a bail bondsman you need to keep on tap.

Glad Rosie is ok. Maybe stop feeding her acorns though.
 
Glad you saved her mate. It would have been quite a blow and a miserable Christmas otherwise.
 
Glad you caught that before it got any more serious. Emergency vets are financially exploitative but it's because they can be. A positive outcome is all you can hope for, and that it doesn't cost you a Buick. I've been in that situation and it didn't go so well. Paid about 4k to find out we had to put our big boss Maine Coon down. And this girl who is now our old momma of the new clan is the one we adopted the week he passed.

She just had a big cancerous cyst removed a couple weeks ago. It had been growing on her back for a couple years. We were assured it was benign and harmless. It got bigger, they said the same thing. They told us we could have it removed but it would be purely cosmetic. So I watched this thing continue to grow with our vets telling us to leave it alone. I never liked that, it was obviously going to keep growing and in my estimation, you don't want put off a surgery on an aging animal (she's 8 now) that seemed inevitable to me.

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The lump never seemed to bother her. But once it got bigger than a golfball I said fuck this, it's gotta go. Sure enough after it was removed the growth was considered abnormal and the biopsy confirmed it was filled with cancer. They cut big clean margins, said the cancer was all contained in the sac they removed and are confident they got it all. She's taken the post-surgical and donut way better than I thought she would and finally got to take the donut off a couple days ago. The wound is healing well and she's back to being a cat and licking the shit out of everyone. The fur will grow back eventually.

The vets dropped the ball on this. My vets are very good and thorough typically but they should've known better that this was a likely outcome, and expressed it to us. We got lucky only because we went with our intuition despite them giving us dissuading advice. Surgery and biopsy only cost 2k, we lucked out there too. Cheers to not losing pets around the holidays, or any time for that matter. Been through it twice and it blows. Only a new kitten can cheer us up lol
 
Red Beard said:
What's up boys????


When it rains, sometimes it pours.

Last Thursday, I got home from work and my pup, Rosie got sick.

At that point, I chalked it up to anxiety as I was doing some work on my home camera system.

She was all good over the weekend and Friday when I was off, but when I got home from work on Monday might, same thing happened.

At that point, I figured she once again got anxious as I was building my closet and all the hammering, screwing, and banging might have upset her.

Tuesday is where it got real!

I come home from work Tuesday night and she got sick three times in matter of 1 hour. I knew this was something else. I called the emergency vet and explained the symptoms (vomiting, still drinking/eating, and still going to the bathroom) and they recommended she been seen.

Around midnight Tuesday night into Wednesday she threw up and I swear she started acting completely normal again. We decided that we'd keep our eye on her and call our vet on the morning.

At 4 am when I got up for work she was laying by her water dish so we gave her some water and within twenty minutes, she threw up again.

At this point it was decided to take her to the emergency vet about an hour away.

A little over $1500 to diagnose the issue and they said it was a foreign object in her intestines!

The vet recommended surgery so that is what we did. $7000.00 later she is now home resting and the thing they pulled out of her was either an acorn or a chunk of wood.

Cliffs: Read every word as this is all your Christmas gifts.

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Wish Rosie best of health .
Your vet prices are insane though.
 
Red Beard said:
Selfishly I didn't blink an eye but I agree with you. I think 20 years ago, you just let the dog die. Our culture makes animals family and I'm okay with that personally.
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Treating pets as family is good. Exploiting it to milk people for money isn't.
 
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Glad your dog is doing well. Hearing stuff like this made me give my dog a big hug.

little fucker thinking he's getting steak now lol
 
Red Beard said:
What's up boys????


When it rains, sometimes it pours.

Last Thursday, I got home from work and my pup, Rosie got sick.

At that point, I chalked it up to anxiety as I was doing some work on my home camera system.

She was all good over the weekend and Friday when I was off, but when I got home from work on Monday might, same thing happened.

At that point, I figured she once again got anxious as I was building my closet and all the hammering, screwing, and banging might have upset her.

Tuesday is where it got real!

I come home from work Tuesday night and she got sick three times in matter of 1 hour. I knew this was something else. I called the emergency vet and explained the symptoms (vomiting, still drinking/eating, and still going to the bathroom) and they recommended she been seen.

Around midnight Tuesday night into Wednesday she threw up and I swear she started acting completely normal again. We decided that we'd keep our eye on her and call our vet on the morning.

At 4 am when I got up for work she was laying by her water dish so we gave her some water and within twenty minutes, she threw up again.

At this point it was decided to take her to the emergency vet about an hour away.

A little over $1500 to diagnose the issue and they said it was a foreign object in her intestines!

The vet recommended surgery so that is what we did. $7000.00 later she is now home resting and the thing they pulled out of her was either an acorn or a chunk of wood.

Cliffs: Read every word as this is all your Christmas gifts.

Pic of Rosie aka Bugz:
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I hope she makes a full and swift recovery. :)
 
whocares said:
Glad you caught that before it got any more serious. Emergency vets are financially exploitative but it's because they can be. A positive outcome is all you can hope for, and that it doesn't cost you a Buick. I've been in that situation and it didn't go so well. Paid about 4k to find out we had to put our big boss Maine Coon down. And this girl who is now our old momma of the new clan is the one we adopted the week he passed.

She just had a big cancerous cyst removed a couple weeks ago. It had been growing on her back for a couple years. We were assured it was benign and harmless. It got bigger, they said the same thing. They told us we could have it removed but it would be purely cosmetic. So I watched this thing continue to grow with our vets telling us to leave it alone. I never liked that, it was obviously going to keep growing and in my estimation, you don't want put off a surgery on an aging animal (she's 8 now) that seemed inevitable to me.

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The lump never seemed to bother her. But once it got bigger than a golfball I said fuck this, it's gotta go. Sure enough after it was removed the growth was considered abnormal and the biopsy confirmed it was filled with cancer. They cut big clean margins, said the cancer was all contained in the sac they removed and are confident they got it all. She's taken the post-surgical and donut way better than I thought she would and finally got to take the donut off a couple days ago. The wound is healing well and she's back to being a cat and licking the shit out of everyone. The fur will grow back eventually.

The vets dropped the ball on this. My vets are very good and thorough typically but they should've known better that this was a likely outcome, and expressed it to us. We got lucky only because we went with our intuition despite them giving us dissuading advice. Surgery and biopsy only cost 2k, we lucked out there too. Cheers to not losing pets around the holidays, or any time for that matter. Been through it twice and it blows. Only a new kitten can cheer us up lol
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That sounds like a nightmare. I always wish our pets could just give us little phrases to tell us what is going on before it becomes a thing. We put a lot of trust in vets and I don't always think they do what is best for our pets.
 
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