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>>59086<-- stupid.
The following is a story ended by a rant. Skip it if you're in no mood to read such posts. :)
When me and my GF wanted to take two cats from a pound, it turned out one of them had "cat cold" or whatever it's called in english (a common sickness for cats, the typical symptom is sneezing). We couldn't take her, even though we isisted that we would take her to the vet everytime we could. The pound's vet said no. Anyways the other cat was supposed to be pretty much healthy, "only malnourished". Well, after we gave her a shower there was little more than skin and bones to be seen when her hair got un-fluffy. Anyway, she got an injection against rabies, a worm pill (forgive my lack of knowledge on proper english terms) and was judged good to go. We took a cab straight to the vet nearest our home. Now comes the "funny" part.
For one thing, malnoutrition was the least of the cat's worried and I doubt she would have survived more than a week more in the pond. She had sick kidneys and way too much urea in her blood (which explained some of her bad breath). The "one and a half, maybe 2 year old" cat we took from the pound turned out to be (judging by our vet) "3 years minimum, most likely 5 years, judging by the state of her teeth". For about 2 weeks almost the only foood she took was through injections under the skin.
Anyways, we never summed it all up but the cost in dollars would be way over 1000. When thinking about the past, me and my GF sometimes laugh that for that kind of money we could have gotten ourselves a young, healthy cat with a pedigree and all that nonsense. ;) Luckily the vet only charged us for the cost of the medicine she used and never charged us for the visits. During the first visit she joked that there was an "100% off for adopted animals" ;) and later it was kind of obvious that we were visiting her pretty much at least once a day.
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