For the love of our pets- We do these things.

Can't imagine the cost of all that !

My dog had Hemoragic Gastro-enteritus, was in the animal hospital for three days on IV and meds, cost me nearly $2,000.

One of our cats had crystals and a urethra blockage, four days in hospital with IV and meds, cost me $900.

We've got a couple of Burmese cats (Floyd & Zep).

A couple of months before we returned to the UK Zep swallowed a bobble of a Santa hat on his Christmas mouse (don't ask) and it got stuck. Lots of vomit & loss of appetite gave us the clue something wasn't up as he normally eats more equestrian style than feline. AUS$1400 later he was back to normal.

Then a few months after we moved back to the UK Floyd decided it was his turn to swallow something he shouldn't have. Luckily by this time we'd got pet insurance as it cost us £1400 including a couple of overnight stays in the local animal hospital. The vet nurse there told us she'd never seen a cat cut open to retrieve swallowed objects in 20 years on the job.

2 weeks ago Floyd decided to repeat the process by attempting to eat bits of a swimming kick board. I asked if while they were operating they could insert a brain and a zipper but apparently that's not possible ...

Talk about dumb animals ... or is that dumb humans for putting up with them

Scott

My female cat Shadow, a calico, gets laser treatments for arthritis every week :-)