How much do you Value your pet?

kneemos

Watching "Supervet" and he has a cat with a five grand leg operation.
Would you pay or send the cat to the farm?

Penny Tration

Paid a grand for my dog to have an op on her knee at tthe start of the year. Would do it ten times over if needed.

Pumpkinseeds

I'd pay it and not regret a single cent of it.

twinytwo

The mother would get thrown out before the dog....

/thread

To Elland Back

I have pet insurance for my beloved dog because I never want to have to make that decision

heldel00

Blood transfusion, couple of nights with the vet, follow up visits, injections ... Have a fair bit spent already and all cos some aul prick of a farmer was throwing poison around willy nilly!
Easy to say "no I wouldn't" but when you see them at their lowest you'd do anything

RosyLily

Pay whatever amount. He's worth every cent.

The Backwards Man

Would depend on what quality of life they would have after it for me.

I only have my dog two weeks today but I'm entirely in love with her and can't imagine ever not giving her anything she needs.

/sap

Rubberchikken

We'd do everything possible for Westie. She's a star;)

Pumpkinseeds

Pet insurance does give fantastic peace of mind. One of ours arrived as a very ill stray and needed the better part of 2 grands worth of treatment over the first 18 months he was with us. Ever since then we got insurance for the others as each of them arrived and moved in. The thing with pet insurance is that you want to get it as soon as you get the pet so that they're covered for as much as possible. I don't have health insurance for myself but I'dn never be without it for our pets.:)

kenmccarthy

Wouldn't think twice about it, if I had or could get the money I'd pay it!!!!! See the big dog(chief) last week needed a 5K hip replacement...owners didn't want to pay...good ol supervet came to the rescue....few weeks after the op he was runing around like a puppy/ brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Uncle Ruckus

Same here. I love my pets.

Lucyfur

Love my furries and no amount of money would be too much!

Manach

A: more than most people.

My name is URL

5 grand for a leg operation on a cat seems too expensive. I wouldn't pay that much out of my pocket for what is essentially an untested operation with no guarantee of success and fair chance that the animal will be left in a lot of pain. Doesn't mean I don't value my pets, and thankfully they're insured so I won't have to make the decision not to have them treated due to costs.

cloud493

I love my rabbits and would give them anything I can to make them happy.

kenmccarthy

Wouldn't think twice about it, if I had or could get the money I'd pay it!!!!! See the big dog(chief) last week needed a 5K hip replacement...owners didn't want to pay...good ol supervet came to the rescue....few weeks after the op he was runing around like a puppy/ brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

kenmccarthy

Wouldn't think twice about it, if I had or could get the money I'd pay it!!!!! See the big dog(chief) last week needed a 5K hip replacement...owners didn't want to pay...good ol supervet came to the rescue....few weeks after the op he was runing around like a puppy/ brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

kenmccarthy

Wouldn't think twice about it, if I had or could get the money I'd pay it!!!!! See the big dog(chief) last week needed a 5K hip replacement...owners didn't want to pay...good ol supervet came to the rescue....few weeks after the op he was runing around like a puppy/ brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Penny Tration

This thread makes me happy.


Gave my dog a big cuddle after reading the first page. She bit my nose :pac:

grey_so_what

Love my Kitty's....

Insurance all the way, it is expensive but they are my little buddies!! xxx

grey_so_what

Jingle_Balls wrote: »

This thread makes me happy.


Gave my dog a big cuddle after reading the first page. She bit my nose :pac:

Love this post!!....:D:D:D

kenmccarthy

Apologies for resending,getting the hang of new phone!!!!!mea culpa!!!! Just watching tonights episode on ch4+1, that supervet guy is brilliant, certainly NOT cheap but he is something else

Ruu

Spent a small fortune on a foster cat that we were looking after a few yeas back. She had a tough start to life but we got her eating again, nearly ready for adoption but got sick again. After exhausting every other avenue, we had to let go. Would happily do it again for the other two are taking up my chair so I have to stand.

smurfjed

As an expat, I have considered moving the wife and dogs to France for 6 months in order to avoid Irish quarantine laws... So i guess that you can say that i would do anything for them

SillyMangoX

I would do and already have had to do anything possible to keep my pets alive. After my cat was hit by a car last year, I had to stay with him 24/7 as he had an indwelling catheter and couldn't pee at all. So for 6 weeks I wasn't getting any more than 2-3 hours sleep a night except rare occasions where someone might mind him so I could go to bed for a few hours. It was tough going and still is with him, and have payed almost a grand in vet fees since it all, but if I had to go back and do it all again I would in a heartbeat. It's worth it for the pure love and affection you get back out of them. After all he's been through, numerous surgeries, tests, procedures and treatments he still greets me every day with a purr and a snuggle, and wants nothing more than love and a bit of food. If he wasn't happy then I would be prepared to call quits even after everything but to see how happy he is day in and day out, even when he's sick, makes me know it was all worth while.

Woshy

We moved from NZ to Ireland and paid a lot of money to bring our cat with us. It was worth every penny. He's currently lying on my chest, purring away. Loads of people said we were mad and we should just give him away but that's not the kind of people we are. That cat is my first baby - even after having a real baby he has a very special place in our family.

He did have to have 3 very expensive operations while we lived in NZ but we had insurance so we were reimbursed for most of the costs. We would have paid for it without hesitation though.

grey_so_what

Ruu wrote: »

Spent a small fortune on a foster cat that we were looking after a few yeas back. She had a tough start to life but we got her eating again, nearly ready for adoption but got sick again. After exhausting every other avenue, we had to let go. Would happily do it again for the other two are taking up my chair so I have to stand.

I was trying to watch Masterchef and I got howls eveytime the music came on and the ***deep voice*** of the presenter....

Ended up scratching necks and arses......:pac: to get to hear the finish!!....

DEFTLEFTHAND

SillyMangoX wrote: »

I would do and already have had to do anything possible to keep my pets alive. After my cat was hit by a car last year, I had to stay with him 24/7 as he had an indwelling catheter and couldn't pee at all. So for 6 weeks I wasn't getting any more than 2-3 hours sleep a night except rare occasions where someone might mind him so I could go to bed for a few hours. It was tough going and still is with him, and have payed almost a grand in vet fees since it all, but if I had to go back and do it all again I would in a heartbeat. It's worth it for the pure love and affection you get back out of them. After all he's been through, numerous surgeries, tests, procedures and treatments he still greets me every day with a purr and a snuggle, and wants nothing more than love and a bit of food. If he wasn't happy then I would be prepared to call quits even after everything but to see how happy he is day in and day out, even when he's sick, makes me know it was all worth while.

Is that him in your avatar?

Woshy

smurfjed wrote: »

As an expat, I have considered moving the wife and dogs to France for 6 months in order to avoid Irish quarantine laws... So i guess that you can say that i would do anything for them

Where are you located? You probably don't need to quarantine at all if you go through the UK. As I said, we brought out cat from NZ via Heathrow and loads of places have agreements with the uk. He got signed off there and then as UK/irl have free movement of animals we just brought him on the ferry to Dublin.

While we were waiting to pick up the cat, pets came in from Aus, America, Canada and Grenada - no quarantine needed

Chunners

Funny this thread should be started tonight, Just got back from the Blue Cross getting my kitten his injections and there was a woman there with her own cat, we were chatting while queuing and she was telling me she is homeless the last 7 years and has lived on the streets and in various hostels (the current one she has been in the last year), her cat has no ears because it had cancer so had to have them removed and all this happened while she was homeless so she had to runaround everywhere trying to get treatment for it while, at times, trying to find a roof over their heads and get this, the cat is 21 years old. I couldn't believe that all that crap is going on in her live and still her cat is one of her primary concerns. Seriously you could just tell by looking at her how important the cat is to her. My oldests cat is only 3 years old and I love her to bits, she is like my shadow but I can't imagine how strong the bond between will be if she lives to 21 or how gutted that woman will be when her cat passes away. I'd imagine it will be like losing a child.

SillyMangoX

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is that him in your avatar?

Indeed it is, the little Dude monster

kneemos

Woshy wrote: »

Where are you located? You probably don't need to quarantine at all if you go through the UK. As I said, we brought out cat from NZ via Heathrow and loads of places have agreements with the uk. He got signed off there and then as UK/irl have free movement of animals we just brought him on the ferry to Dublin.

While we were waiting to pick up the cat, pets came in from Aus, America, Canada and Grenada - no quarantine needed

It's a Rabies quarantine afaik.Some countries don't have it.

sh1tstirrer

Any vet reading this thread would have Euro signs in his/her eyes. Anyone that spends 5k on a cat would want their head examined unless they have more money than sense.

Woshy

kneemos wrote: »

It's a Rabies quarantine afaik.Some countries don't have it.

It's worth you looking into anyway - we had to vaccinate the cat for rabies a certain length of time before we left and then there was no quarantine.

We had to go via the UK though and have him cleared there.

lynchieboy

This country is f**king mad, €200 for drinking water no way! €5000 for a cat's leg no prob WTF?

Cantremember

FFS. A job for Fleet Admiral and the steel toe cap.

Teyla Emmagan

Paid 1800 for my cat's back leg. Leg healed perfectly and he got another 5 brilliant years out of it. Worth every penny.

Mind you I got pet insurance as soon as they would insure him after!

LoganRice

My parents don't see animals the way myself and my brothers do, it is sad

Lucyfur

Ruu wrote: »

Spent a small fortune on a foster cat that we were looking after a few yeas back. She had a tough start to life but we got her eating again, nearly ready for adoption but got sick again. After exhausting every other avenue, we had to let go. Would happily do it again for the other two are taking up my chair so I have to stand.

My husband regularly stands to watch football or work on the PC cos one of our cats has claimed the computer chair for herself

Wibbs

They can become for many people(inc myself) like another member of the family. Stands to reason. In many ways the history of modern humans is very closely tied to the history of domestication/pets. First it was dogs. Which was one helluva stretch at the time; "here Ug. What Og? I reckon we should bring one of those huge snarly howly huge fcukers with teeth into the family, they're cuddly. Og, you need fcukin sectioning you do, your missus will never go for it and she's dead bleedin right". But we were quids in, they helped us hunt and protected us at night. That was when we were cavemen. Then we got all poncey and up ourselves and settled down to do a bit of farming. All went well, the dogs looked after the livestock, but rats had a field day with the stored grains. Cue our cats. "here Ug. What Og? I reckon we should bring one of those hissy, snarly scratchy fcukers with teeth into the family, they're cuddly. Og, even after a couple of thousand years you still need fcukin sectioning you do, and your missus still won't go for it and she's dead bleedin right. Naw it was her idea Ug. Damn thing hates me but purrs all over her". and again we were quids in and so were the cats. And that's before we get to horses, camels and elephants(brave bugger who tried that first), even cheetahs.

As a species we seem programmed to bond with our animals and they in turn bond with us and it's healthy for both of us. It has been shown in many studies that petting our furry friends is mentally and physically good for us. And that goes both ways. Our dogs, cats and other furries get the same benefits. Though just one thing, dogs don't like being hugged. It's not in their vocab of affection signals. The majority of dogs will lick their lips when hugged, a sign of discomfort. Many don't like being patted on the head either.

hfallada

When we first moved into our area. The running joke of one of the neighbours was that she had 3 dogs in 3 years(all pedigree). The first died of medical complications, the 2nd she run over and third is still alive.

When we first got our dog, she told us to buy pet insurance as its worth it in the long run. I think with her experience, she is an expert at whether its worth it or not

Teyla Emmagan

Oh, and I have a friend who spent 5k getting her dog back from Brazil. She got him over there (with her Irish boyfriend) and was afraid to leave him when they wanted to come back to Ireland because he's a bit disabled and she was afraid he wouldn't find a good home. After months of quarantine and a fortune in tests, finally the dog arrived in the UK and she had to fly over to pick him up. Of course dogs aren't allowed on as foot passengers on the ferry (and there must have been some reason he couldn't be flown to Ireland) so they had to hire a car just to bring him on the boat. And then go back with the frickin car. After all that she falls in love with another guy and moves to Australia (the plan is a year or two). She didn't want to upset the dog, so he lives with boyf No 1 in Ireland and she skypes the dog daily

dockleaf

Wibbs wrote: »

T

Though just one thing, dogs don't like being hugged. It's not in their vocab of affection signals. The majority of dogs will lick their lips when hugged, a sign of discomfort. .

Why on earth does my dog climb up my legs any chance she gets until I pick her up? Then if I reach down to her, she uses her legs to push herself against my arms and climbs up to my chest and wriggles into me. She only stops wriggling when I put my arms around her and hold her. Then obviously tries to lick my face off! She's nuts.

cloud493

Animals are the best. They're always happy to see you, never yell at you or get pissed off with you over nothing, usually very affectionate.

Wibbs

sh1tstirrer wrote: »

Any vet reading this thread would have Euro signs in his/her eyes.

They already have. Vet costs have gone through the roof in the last twenty years. And I'm not talking about cutting edge stuff where one might expect to pay the big bucks, I mean simple stuff.

Pet insurance has a lot to do with it. One hand shakes the other. Ah sure insurance will cover it = prices keep going up. It also adds to dubious practices like mandatory annual vaccinations to keep you in the loop. So your average dog who lives to say 12 years could have 40 plus vaccinations, yet your average human who lives to 80, might have 5 or 10 at most? GTFO.

Never mind that many vet practices pimp dry food for dogs front of house. Dry food that is basically weetabix with "meat" flavouring. For an animal that is still to all intents and purposes an apex predator and carnivore? Sure dogs will survive on such a diet, but it's not near optimal, yet vets will back it? They tried similar on cats, but they will just waste away on such a diet.

Hell we even have dog and cat dentists now. Eh WTF? Almost entirely down to the crap diet(like in people). Wild dogs and cats may break teeth, but don't show tooth decay or tartar. And that's before we get to doegy breeding and inbreeding and that ain't just the puppy farmers, the "good" breeders are the most guilty. How many wolves have been observed with hip dysplasia, or buggered joints, or tendons? That would be none(and wolves are actually quite narrow genetically). Yet many breeds suffer this, never mind DM, blindness, deafness etc. And don't get me started on the "benefits" and near gospel of neutering male dogs. /rant

Wibbs

dockleaf wrote: »

Why on earth does my dog climb up my legs any chance she gets until I pick her up? Then if I reach down to her, she uses her legs to push herself against my arms and climbs up to my chest and wriggles into me. She only stops wriggling when I put my arms around her and hold her. Then obviously tries to lick my face off! She's nuts.

oh sure DL they vary. Just like people, but in general they don't like it. It could also be your doggie channeling her inner puppy. Jumping to you to lick your lips for food, the hug is secondary kinda thing? Constriction of the body can be a calming thing for dogs, recalls pups being squished together with other pups. It's apparently how those anti stress dog jackets work. Funny enough I've read that wolves among themselves "hug" each other more than dogs do. It's more a paws and legs thing than full on body hug though.

Ranchu

Wibbs wrote: »

They tried similar on cats, but they will just waste away on such a diet.

There's loads of good quality dry food for cats. What are you on about?

sh1tstirrer

Wibbs wrote: »

They already have. Vet costs have gone through the roof in the last twenty years. And I'm not talking about cutting edge stuff where one might expect to pay the big bucks, I mean simple stuff.

Pet insurance has a lot to do with it. One hand shakes the other. Ah sure insurance will cover it = prices keep going up. It also adds to dubious practices like mandatory annual vaccinations to keep you in the loop. So your average dog who lives to say 12 years could have 40 plus vaccinations, yet your average human who lives to 80, might have 5 or 10 at most? GTFO.

Never mind that many vet practices pimp dry food for dogs front of house. Dry food that is basically weetabix with "meat" flavouring. For an animal that is still to all intents and purposes an apex predator and carnivore? Sure dogs will survive on such a diet, but it's not near optimal, yet vets will back it? They tried similar on cats, but they will just waste away on such a diet.

Hell we even have dog and cat dentists now. Eh WTF? Almost entirely down to the crap diet(like in people). Wild dogs and cats may break teeth, but don't show tooth decay or tartar. And that's before we get to doegy breeding and inbreeding and that ain't just the puppy farmers, the "good" breeders are the most guilty. How many wolves have been observed with hip dysplasia, or buggered joints, or tendons? That would be none(and wolves are actually quite narrow genetically). Yet many breeds suffer this, never mind DM, blindness, deafness etc. And don't get me started on the "benefits" and near gospel of neutering male dogs. /rant

Correct, I know what you mean being a farmer and having a daughter working with a vet specializing small animals.

PucaMama

id do anything for my dogs