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My roommate has two dogs, a .5-year-old blonde lab and a 2-year-old pitbull/basenji. A few days ago the lab got parvo something awful from a dog at the park and nearly died, had to be put up at the vet and my rooommate got almost his entire bank account, $1200, sucked dry during the ordeal. She should have had her vaccine for parvo by then, but by his telling the technicians had accidentally omitted it in her last combo. He has said that if either dog got sick (or sicker) and he had to pay any more to get them better, he'd just let them die, because he doesn't have any more money left.

Where do you draw the line /an/? What do you do when a sick animal depletes all the funds you've set aside for it and it becomes a matter of choosing between their livelihood and your own? Do you start selling your things, living on the street, what? When if ever do you just say "fuck it" and let them die?

Let's say for argument that the critter can live a happy and pain-free life assuming they get the treatment they need, so no copouts with "euthanasia is better for them anyways."
>> #fortune Anonymous
hi
>> Anonymous
I spent all my savings on my cat too. $700 down the drain. But if he gets sick again, he's kind of fucked. I won't get a credit card for it.
>> Anonymous
I'm sorry your roommate had to be put in such a position. My answer isn't a terribly useful one and consists entirely of "crossing and burning that bridge when we come to it". I love my cat dearly, and thankfully I've not been in a situation where I've had to make this choice; but I do remember my parents having to. The situation was kidney failure in a circa 15 year old cat. They had a choice of $5000 and hopefully a couple more years or just accept it and euthanise; they chose the latter with the rationale that the cat would have to have meds for the rest of its life, and that wasn't even going to be terribly long, and her quality of life was already greatly diminished.

Was it right? I don't know, but I do remember it being very painful for everyone involved.
>> Anonymous
Our huskey ate some snail bate and almost died, but we got her to a vet in time. I fucking love that dog to death, and seeing her get sick with the snail bate was one of the hardest things I've ever seen. I like to keep the stance that no one should spend hundreds of dollars on animals over themselves, but when crisis actually happens, I would rather save my animal than watch it suffer.
>> Anonymous
Some motherfucker shot my cat through the leg with a crossbow. Cost a fucking fortune in vet bills. It didn't help that it was late on a Friday night and the call out fee was hueg before anything actually got done.
>> Anonymous
I draw the line at a few thousand. Not because that cost would be a hardship for me, but because I would feel like a fool if I spent over $5,000 on an animal. I have had exactly one pet for which I would have spent more. That was an exceptionally smart, well-tempered, loyal cat. The kind of individual that makes you suspect he knows what you're saying when you talk to him. I had an I'm-an-idiot spending limit for him too, but it was well over $5,000.
>> Jo
I love my dalmatian. And so far I have lucked out. She for the most part, wont die. She has been hit by a car three times, jumped out of a two story window, and has eaten an entire box of rat poison. I love this dog to death, but if it came down to it, she is just a dog. I would be greatly upset if she died, but I wouldnt spend my life savings to save her.
>> Anonymous
We've spent around 1,200 dollars on fixing my cat's eye (as well as solving dehydration, ect, he had gone missing and came back .. uh, without an eye.)
I'd say the limit is probably when it reaches like, 4k or something. But it all depends on how much you enjoy that animal. Any more than that and its just craziness, as they must have something HIDEOUSLY wrong with them.
>> Anonymous
$3000 is the max for me, depending on the animal. I own a bunch of animals, and I still will in the future. I can't spend $3000 on every animal that gets sick or hurt.

>>165689
My dad shot a cat with a crossbow years ago.. I hope you don't live on the east coast.
>> Anonymous
Yeah, I think I'd stop at a few thousand. I definately couldn't afford to pay it all at once but luckily for me I have a great vetrinarian who allows payments.
>> Anonymous
About $600, if treatment is much more then it's new animal time.

We don't 'let' our suffering animals die. We either get them treatment or get them put down. Who the hell thinks it's a good idea to just let them die on their own?
>> Anonymous
>>165903
GOD.
(I kid, God's fine with it. He told me so himself.)