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kelsie123186 · 06-25-2007, 03:51 PM

Okay What do you guys think?

I noticed Bailey had been throwing up every once in a while in the last few days and last night my boyfriend woke up and saw her throwing up again so today we decided to take her to the vet (whom we really like and has been great with our little bailey) Well our usual vet wasnt availble until later and we really wanted to get her in earlyer so we agreed to see the resident doctor instead.
He looked at her and checked her temp yadda yadda yadda and then said he would be back with an estimate. While we were waiting, our usual vet came in to see her (she really likes our little one) and she gives her a quick look over as we chit chat with her and tell her shes been throwing up. She tells us that shes sure shes fine and the doctor will probably just give her something to get the acid out of her stomach and maybe some special food and then we would be on our way. She leaves the room and the resident doc came in to give us the estimate. He starts telling us its going to be $540.00 because he wants to do exrays of her stomach yadda yadda yadda. We werent expecting it to be that much and naturally we were both shocked. My boyfriend left it up to me and feeling pressured by the vet I left Bailey there and my boyfriend and I went to get my checkbook from home. We felt like maybe we were getting taken advantage of, after all dogs throw up all the time and most people dont even bother taking their dog to the vet . We are just really cautious with her because she is super tiny 1.9lbs. Well once my boyfriend and I get in the car we decide to call the office and talk to our regular vet and ask her if she thought all this was neccesary. After all, she looked at bailey and told us that she just thought he would prescirbe something to get the acid out of her tummy and some food. So my boyfriend calls her and she basically tells him "exrays are an important diagnostic tool" so basically she is now backing him up on this. Even though this isnt what she would have suggest had we seen her. I ended up sending my boyfriend back in to get bailey and he tells the vet tec that we are just going to keep an eye on her for a few days and we will bring her back if anything goes wrong. Then the vet tec whispers to my boyfriend "im sure shes going to be fine"

Im not sure were going to go back there anymore. We feel like they were trying to screw us over, we arent sure if we should just go back to our original doctor that we like and ONLY see her, or if we should just change vets all together. We feel like when we called our vet to ask her if we should do what the other doctor suggested we probably put her in a bad situation because HE is the resident doctor so he is her boss. She has to support his decisions. Well what do you all think? Where they trying to screw us over?

06-25-2007, 03:51 PM	#1
kelsie123186 YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: nevada Posts: 323	Vet trying to screw us? Okay What do you guys think? I noticed Bailey had been throwing up every once in a while in the last few days and last night my boyfriend woke up and saw her throwing up again so today we decided to take her to the vet (whom we really like and has been great with our little bailey) Well our usual vet wasnt availble until later and we really wanted to get her in earlyer so we agreed to see the resident doctor instead. He looked at her and checked her temp yadda yadda yadda and then said he would be back with an estimate. While we were waiting, our usual vet came in to see her (she really likes our little one) and she gives her a quick look over as we chit chat with her and tell her shes been throwing up. She tells us that shes sure shes fine and the doctor will probably just give her something to get the acid out of her stomach and maybe some special food and then we would be on our way. She leaves the room and the resident doc came in to give us the estimate. He starts telling us its going to be $540.00 because he wants to do exrays of her stomach yadda yadda yadda. We werent expecting it to be that much and naturally we were both shocked. My boyfriend left it up to me and feeling pressured by the vet I left Bailey there and my boyfriend and I went to get my checkbook from home. We felt like maybe we were getting taken advantage of, after all dogs throw up all the time and most people dont even bother taking their dog to the vet . We are just really cautious with her because she is super tiny 1.9lbs. Well once my boyfriend and I get in the car we decide to call the office and talk to our regular vet and ask her if she thought all this was neccesary. After all, she looked at bailey and told us that she just thought he would prescirbe something to get the acid out of her tummy and some food. So my boyfriend calls her and she basically tells him "exrays are an important diagnostic tool" so basically she is now backing him up on this. Even though this isnt what she would have suggest had we seen her. I ended up sending my boyfriend back in to get bailey and he tells the vet tec that we are just going to keep an eye on her for a few days and we will bring her back if anything goes wrong. Then the vet tec whispers to my boyfriend "im sure shes going to be fine" Im not sure were going to go back there anymore. We feel like they were trying to screw us over, we arent sure if we should just go back to our original doctor that we like and ONLY see her, or if we should just change vets all together. We feel like when we called our vet to ask her if we should do what the other doctor suggested we probably put her in a bad situation because HE is the resident doctor so he is her boss. She has to support his decisions. Well what do you all think? Where they trying to screw us over?