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I keep reading on reddit about people who take their animals in regularly and who spend obscene amounts (200+ dollars) on meds and surgery and all that.
I've never once taken an animal to the vet. If they get injured I wait for them to heal, if it doesn't look like they're going to heal I shoot them.
Am I just a !bumpkins?
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My cat goes to the vet once a year
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My uncle brushes his dog's teeth and wipes his dogs butthole daily and takes him to the vet every 6 months.
My other uncle leaves his dogs outside and lets them kill stray dogs for sport and never takes them to the vet.
Both seem happy.
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yeah if they die they die
they shoulda put in a honest day's work if they wanted healthcare
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i love my dog, she's my friend, so i've spent some money on her at the vet before. she's gotten surgery a couple times, for a big abscess when another dog bit her and getting some rotten teeth pulled, now she's old and i have her on some kinda spendy pain pills. stuff like that. otherwise she gets a rabies shot if i remember to bring her in lol and that's it. i would never pay for a scheduled check-up, and if she gets something really expensive like cancer then
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You ar taking good care of her.
Please. Give her extra pets from rdrama.
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they giving vicodin to dogs now? darn
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actually they give her suboxone i think if i ask for it but she doesn't usually need it. she's on some dog ibuprofen shit and gabapentin.
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If you can't afford to take your pet to the vet at least once a year for shots and a checkup, you can't afford a pet.
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I give my dog flea/tick/heart worm medicine and shots he needs. I would also absolutely pay for something like idk if he broke his leg or something. Anything really if he can have good quality of life afterwards and it's not super expensive. Would never pay thousands just to keep him alive for like 6 more months or with shit QoL tho, would be really sad but that's too much. Also my vet was recently sending me emails for his 6 month checkup and... why? lmao
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they're always emailing me too lol vets try to get money out of you any way they can. right when my dog started getting old, she fell playing in the backyard and seemed like she really hurt herself. crying, wouldn't walk at all, etc. so i threw her in the car and took her to get x-rays. when i went to pick her up my bill was crazy like over 1k, so i asked for an itemized bill. after the x-rays the bastards had shone some healing red light mlm bs for 20 minutes on her without even asking me if i consented to paying for that woowoo shit and wanted to charge me like $500 for the privilege
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Were you able to get out of the extra when you told them you didn't ask for it? thats the type of shit I get worried about when taking mine anywhere. or just getting hosed on a things in general since i have no frame of reference whatsoever to what vet shit should cost lol.
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yeah i just told them i didn't ask for it and there was no way i was gonna pay for it and they took it off my bill. pretty sure they just fleece people like regular hospitals do, where they expect you to just pay and not inspect the bill to see why it's so high.
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that's good at least, its fricked how they take advantage of people who arent thinking straight with their loved ones or pets. cant believe how many do it
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That's to try to get you to sign up for their "membership program" which I guess is them giving you a year's worth of checkups up front and then overcharging you for them. I don't remember but the exact numbers but something like $1500 if you pay them $1000 up front or something.
I'd be more annoyed about that than the MLM bullshit.
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I take him to the groomer and I get him his vaccines bc they're required by the groomer. Sometimes he gets an ear infection and I'll get him meds but it comes back so I don't know why I even bother tbh.
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No
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/u/Petsarevets
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I took my cat to the vet to get the import paperwork needed to bring her over with me when I moved to Europe, but other than that she's only going to the vet for the reverse situation.
My rule is that I won't pay for anything that costs more than the animal, and since she's a cat that means she's worth… $60? (Got her at a rescue cus then I saved money on the sterilization
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