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Eight years ago it was discovered that my cat had been born with extremely small kidneys with the potential of renal failure. The vet's recommendation was 1) give Tate saline shots twice a day for the rest of his life or 2) take him to a university for d…
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Eight years ago it was discovered that my cat had been born with extremely small kidneys with the potential of renal failure. The vet's recommendation was 1) give Tate saline shots twice a day for the rest of his life or 2) take him to a university for dialysis once a week for the rest of his life at an astronomical amount of money. Well, after tormenting Tate with saline shots twice a day for a week, we felt Tate's quality of life was not worth living. Instead, we did extensive research and put Tate on a diet of ocean fish, and only ocean fish. Tate flourished and was healthier than he'd ever been. The vet keep insisting that Tate would die within a week. Tate lived for eight months more and died because a coyote killed him.

I guess I would be charged with animal cruelty because I not only disagreed with my vet's recommendation, I ignored it. If it happened now, that vet could turn me in.

This is not a black and white area. Vets could work with clients who had the money to cover the cost of taking care of a pet a few years ago, but are now barely making ends meet. If vets cared so much about pets, then they could do something more than charge $94 for a vet visit which includes nothing but seeing the vet. Maybe they could allow their assistants to give shots and charge only for the shots. If everyone cares "so much" for the animal, that "what's important" is the animal's welfare, then everyone involved can own up to a little responsibility toward caring for that animal. Read Less