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[quote=Anonymous]Our young, healthy dog was diagnosed with a rare gastro issue and had we known what we were going into, I would have made vastly different decisions.

The emotional, financial and physical toll it took on our family, not to mention the horrible end, would have changed my mind if I could have looked in a crystal ball. The vet bills, the food and medicine expenses (i.e. simple day to day) were astronomical. I felt as if I was a large part of Chewy's profits.

But I empathize with anyone who is going through it. The vets make it seem like "We'll just do an X-Ray, or this procedure, or that procedure, and then we'll have some answers." In my experience, that was rarely the case. And I was made to feel (at least at the beginning) like a terrible pet owner if I did not just go along with a $5K expense.

I think that's the good and the bad of advanced veterinary medicine. Back in the 80s or even 90s, the neighborhood vet would have drawn on their limited knowledge or rare or complicated diagonosis and said, "We've done everything we can to make them comfortable." Maybe that's oversimplifying it, but I'm not sure knowledge is power in the prolonging of animal life era we're in now. Especially when it comes to the expense (not only financial) of it all. [/quote]

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