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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My unpopular culture opinion is that no one wants to hear about your kids’ sports or your pets. And[b] if you spend over $2k for any one treatment for your pet, you are a fool[/b]. [/quote]

What do you recommend when your dogs tears their ACL? Taking them out back and shooting them?[/quote]

that is a tough one (new poster here) I probably would pay for that.

We had to pay for expensive x-rays and such when our black lab suddenly became paralyzed in her back end. I think the tests and such alone ran us near to $5K (probably included boarded, etc). They discovered several discs in her spine had burst/been damaged.

They then offered the option for a $15K surgery that had a 50/50 shot of working and a 6 week recovery time that would require us carrying our 60 lb+ dog around 24/7. In my mind, we just couldn't justify $15K from our savings for a surgery that may or may not work. And if it didn't work AFTER we spent all that money and time, then we have a lab that needs one of those carts and likely other medical equipment for whatever was left of her life. This sounded miserable all around.

We had a cat at an earlier time that likely had cancer. We'd already paid a couple thousand in tests and had nothing conclusive. We just decided we were done torturing her with tests and let her live until the doctor said she was probably just in constant pain. She made it another year or so and then we said our goodbyes.

Our next cat was an indoor/outdoor guy (he's the only one I have ever had). He was a hunter and apparently a fighter. He had paw injuries, ear injuries, and tail injuries over time. Our vet told us at one point they might have to amputate part of his tail. That booger. Luckily, we just had to treat the injury and his tail remained intact. We've had these cats that seem to cost us more money than they should ;P Our current cat is much less problematic, thank goodness. Only one expensive trip to an emergency vet when he apparently ate something he shouldn't have.[/quote]

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