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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 697006" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I'm coming up on getting clobbered on vet bills as well. Both cats will be needing their vaccinations. Both need dentals. Thomas needs his gunky left ear professionally cleaned out. No infection or mites, it just gunks up. I clean it regularly, but periodically it gets beyond where I can handle it on a household level. With the dentals, assuming no extractions are needed, I'm looking at the vet visits costing around 650 each, depending on what, if any,, blood work has to be done.</p><p></p><p>And that's routine maintenance stuff.</p><p></p><p>Then you get Thomas'colon blockage due to megacolon and an ER visit and spending the night getting enemas , and winding up on laxatives for the rest of his life. That ran about 500.</p><p></p><p>His "mystery vomiting" episode, where he got horribly dehydrated, his electrolytes got so out of whack that his heart and renal function were affected, and he ran a 106 fever and had to be put on an ice mattress.</p><p></p><p>That, with the 4 day hospital stay and never figuring out what was wrong with Thomas, cost me 1200 dollars. </p><p></p><p>Squeaky's only had 2 majors. One was the surgery to remove her deformed, blind eye. 800 dollars there. That was expected. Her other? Flagrantly blowing a jump and tearing a muscle in her right hind leg. All of us thought Squeaks had broken her leg, and she was so uncooperative about the whole thing that the vet wound up knocking her out to do x-rays and a thorough exam. 400 dollars there. Not planned for.</p><p></p><p>Luckily, I have very good credit and credit cards with open lines of credit. But yeah, pets are expensive, especially as they start to get older. Add in special diets and it adds up quickly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 697006, member: 1963"] I'm coming up on getting clobbered on vet bills as well. Both cats will be needing their vaccinations. Both need dentals. Thomas needs his gunky left ear professionally cleaned out. No infection or mites, it just gunks up. I clean it regularly, but periodically it gets beyond where I can handle it on a household level. With the dentals, assuming no extractions are needed, I'm looking at the vet visits costing around 650 each, depending on what, if any,, blood work has to be done. And that's routine maintenance stuff. Then you get Thomas'colon blockage due to megacolon and an ER visit and spending the night getting enemas , and winding up on laxatives for the rest of his life. That ran about 500. His "mystery vomiting" episode, where he got horribly dehydrated, his electrolytes got so out of whack that his heart and renal function were affected, and he ran a 106 fever and had to be put on an ice mattress. That, with the 4 day hospital stay and never figuring out what was wrong with Thomas, cost me 1200 dollars. Squeaky's only had 2 majors. One was the surgery to remove her deformed, blind eye. 800 dollars there. That was expected. Her other? Flagrantly blowing a jump and tearing a muscle in her right hind leg. All of us thought Squeaks had broken her leg, and she was so uncooperative about the whole thing that the vet wound up knocking her out to do x-rays and a thorough exam. 400 dollars there. Not planned for. Luckily, I have very good credit and credit cards with open lines of credit. But yeah, pets are expensive, especially as they start to get older. Add in special diets and it adds up quickly. [/QUOTE]
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