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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you feel about euthanizing an ill animal when expensive surgery that may or may not work is the alternative? I was shocked when we brought our cat with a recurrent urinary tract blockage to the vet and our ONLY OPTION was $10,000 surgery. We ended up choosing to sign rights to him away and per those conditions, the office refused to tell us what happened. To this day, this is one of the most absurd experiences I have ever had. In retrospect, I wish we had just taken him elsewhere.[/quote]

What do you mean that you signed your rights away? You don't even know if they euthanized the cat?[/quote]
Nope, they gave us the option of taking the cat home to die in pain, fork over 10k for essentially a sex change operation (we had already paid $2500 for the initial, unsuccessful treatment), or we give him up to them and they do whatever they could to save his life, but would never tell us. F'ing crazy, right? Poor cat. Sure left a bad taste in my mouth re. Vets. [/quote]

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