Today I just pay $400 to have my dog cut open for no reason. My dog, Charlie, has a big lump around his neck. The vet said it could be parathyroid cancer and suggest us to have the lump removed. We made appointment with the Vet for the dog have the surgery today. After the vet cut open Charlie, he found out it is not a parathyroid cancer. The high calcium in Charlie’s body maybe cause by some other cancer. Since the vet already open Charlie, I would expect him remove the lump even it is not a cancer tumor. It turns out the doctor just stitch up the opening without doing any operation. I am $400 short, Charlie has a wound around his neck and suffer from the pain of the surgery, but his condition has no change. I should ask for a refund from the vet for doing nothing useful.
When we picked up the dog, the vet suggest the dog take more test to diagnose the problem. He suggested us to do X-Ray, CAT scan or even MRI and those tests are expensive. More diagnosis means more money for the Vet, I can see why he suggest further treatment. But to us, what is the point of knowing what kind of cancer he has. My dog is 13 years old, it is almost at the end of its life. Even we know where the cancer is, we won’t let the dog to go through the painful and expensive cancer therapy. A dog won’t last forever. If Charlie die naturally in a painless way, it would be already be a blessing for him and for us.
I have been suggesting taking Charlie to SPCA to put him to sleep. Pat strongly disagree my idea. She said she would send me to SPCA before sending Charlie. I don’t quite understand why people are so attached to their pets. It is just an animal. Wouldn’t it less trouble or sometimes even cheaper to simply get a new one. It is kinda like buying a new computer to replace your old computer. All pets have to go at the end, so you can’t avoid feeling sad when losing your pet, it is just the matter of sooner or later. What is the point of extending the ownership when it brings you more trouble than joy? The owner should just bite the tongue, put it to sleep and suffer a brief moment of feeling bad instead of a prolong period of feeling bad.
Sorry for your dog. Unfortunately for you Horace, I agree with Pat.
Since your dog is 13 years old, it is long before the mass production of dogs as CBC Market Place reported here, horrible horrible.
http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/how_not_to_buy_a_puppy/main.html
What Market Place exposed truly make most people, including me, disgusted.
Yo, don’t make me sound like a yeh maan lo poh — thanks =) – wife
那獸醫明顯是騙財了,在加拿大有否渠道可以投訴。
若我家貓兒病了,我可會用一切方法醫治牠們,對我來說牠們不止是動物,而是家中一份子了。
uncleray: 我就是想破頭也不明白﹐為什麼有人會當寵物是家中一份子﹐而不是家中的一件東西。
你死哪,不要被pat看到你這樣說 :)
這是沒有絕對的對或錯的事,我也不會去嘗試說服你同意我了。其實,十年前的我也想不到自己會這樣子。