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Originally Posted by crystalsmom  I've had the same vet for 20 yrs and in an emergency you pay up front. We also have another emergency vet that is open 24 hrs a day every day and you pay the day the dog is seen.
Look at it from the vets point of view, in an emergency a good percentage don't make it so if they do all they can and run up a big bill and your dog dies, the people in alot of cases do not want to pay. I don't blame the vet.
I think by understanding people who may want alittle help because they have no other way, it will also lead us to the 'dead beat' who is too tight to spend a penny but I am willing to do that. |
Very true. I think that everyone will acknowledge that there are those people who simply don't "count the cost" before having dog....who don't have the right priorities....who wait way too long before getting help. But there are also those people for whom it is their first dog and simply don't know better, who have suddenly fallen in dire financial straits, or who actually do not have vet care available to them. It's just like anything, if you decide to help, you take the good with the bad. Perfectly understandable if someone decides not to help, if they feel there is more bad than good. That's a personal choice. However, it would be unfair to lump them all together as people that don't care enough about their furkids.