keeping pets can be expensive

[oldpink]

my cat molly was hit by a car on thursday (we think hit by a car)
we noticed whe was just sitting and not going up the stair
and when picked up she was hissing and crying so off to the vets, daughter in taxi with cat £10
vet not in the surgery have to take cat to other place, another taxi £8
have to keep cat overnight to do Xray in morning
X ray not good fractured left hip, maybe nerve damage as well, cat has to stay another night
as she can't go to tiolet without being "Stimulated"

today at 2pm daughter gets call vets closes at 2:30 are we picking her up or is she staying
at the cost of a 5 star hotel room per night I decide to go get her
pay vet bill so far £249 F**** Me this is getting expensive
Taxi to vet and back £14 Taxi to friends house to pick up large cage £10

and not finished yet
Molly has to go back to the vets on Mon to see if she has nerve damage
and can go to the toilet on her own, if not its possible I may still have to have her put down
if the damage is worse that we think just now

£300 so far, Oh well there goes the Nov fun in the sun funds

Oh well its only Money and Molly means a lot to me and the family
whats even more stressfull is we are getting a new kitten tonight
we arranged to take it weeks ago
so now I have to keep molly in isolation in a cage to restrict her movement
and deal with a new kitten wanting to explore
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[Ed Case]

I suspect most of us would feel just as you and spend just as much too. Soft old buggers aren't we !.

[iCraig]

Pet insurance ftw!

[oldpink]

[D O G]

Mt cat was hit by a car this morning, well at leat I think he was. Whoever hit him stopped, picked him up from the road and hid him between 2 parked cars.

He wasn't found for a couple of hours, in a bad state. Took him to the vets, but they had to put him to sleep.

Charge of £193.

Gutted.

Hope yours gets better.

[oldpink]

shit
I sorry to hear that
I could never see an animal suffer, if i hit an animal and it looked bad I'd take it to a vet myself
or at least try to find an owner to inform
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[MarJay]

Hope the OP's cat gets well soon.

To DOG, I can only imagine what it is like to lose a pet, especially when our cat is such an important part of mine and my other halfs lives.

Some People think its strange how emotional people get over pets, but I can totally understand it.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Ouch. Hope your cat is OK.

One of ours was knocked down several years ago (we think, broke her pelvis and it took her a few days to crawl home). Cost us a fortune.

All the best

Keith
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[Nai]

Got scammed IMHO by AXA pet insurance, one of my pups cost me £2500. Nowdays anything I would have paid to insurance for pets I put into premium bonds and a mini ISA and save for their costs.

Thoughts are with you DOG, losing pets is horrible. Will you be getting another one?

[D O G]

[Kickstart]

Hi

You have my sympathy. One of ours (the one mentioned earlier having been knocked down several years ago) was knocked down and killed a couple of months ago. She was a real character and I miss her.

All the best

Keith
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[L4Isoside]

Ouch man sorry to hear of it, our next door neighbours cat was hit alittle while ago as well

DOG im sorry to hear of that also, what a wanker

I'm a dog person but there are quite a few cats around here, sometimes when im working in my garage on the bike etc lying there or what ever and suddenly this cat is almost on top of me Yes that sounds dodgy but oh well. They are cute though, I find them lying in my plant pots and stuff too

[pits]

Our one dog last year hurt himself on a walk, threw a stick for him it stuck in the ground as he jumped on it and caught him in the throat, tore the throat open slightly internally.
Emergency call out on a Sunday evening
Stitches
X-ray
just shy of £1000, thankfully pet insurance covered it

[doggone]

With small animals I think they inflate the charges because they expect you will claim it on insurance.
If I call the vet out to a cow and he's here for an hour I would be shocked if it cost much more than £100

[bikertomm]

Shittt, pretty sure I'm not going to be getting any pets in a hurry!

Get well soon cats
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[FURBAR]

Oi .. menstrating jigsaw puzzle .. fuck off ...

Anyway, last week a family friends cat was killed by two dogs from round the corner ...

The dogs owner said to him .. it's only a cat ...

They had the cat from kitten about 15 years ago ....


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[dodgydog]

One of my greyhounds got hold of a cat (before we got him) cost the rescue centre a fortune for the vets bill.

since we got him we've managed to train him to be a little more cat friendly, ie he doesn't lunge at them now, mostly ignores them when we're out.

Although a neighbour has an expensive cat (£500 he paid for it) and Lennie took a little nip, bout a fivers worth, from it.

working on the newest addition now, he goes mental when he sees a cat, and he's quite capable of catching one. He's another rescue greyhound, that someone paid £40,000 for, then he got injured racing and is now considered worthless.

costs us about £60 a month for insurance on all three greys.


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[deleted111]

T'is true what has been said up there ^

Some may think it's silly but some of us get so attached to animals it's unreal.

I can't remember who said it, but someone once told me 'if you can't afford to keep a dog, keep rats'. And I got really attached the the first rats I had. Eventually they passed and I kept ferrets instead. They were almost like friends to me since I barely leave the house anymore. I'm not a massive cat person, but I understand how attached to animals people can be, so I feel your pain and hope Molly gets better soon!!

I now keep fish. One of them died yesterday and I was quite upset.


Then my girlfriend left me last night and I realised that in comparison I wasn't too upset about the fish. F*cking bitch tore my heart out.

Urgh.

/Rant



All the best.

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[Skudd]

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[MarJay]