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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Wishing your friend's aunt good luck with her precious gift from heaven. the poor little thing must have been miseravle with all that milk.
As for the surgery. I would guess that most vets do know what anesthetic to use, and one could ask what they use, and discuss it with them, but not "tell" them.
I recently took my Lil Bit in to be neutered, he has a heart murmur. When I went to get him and to pay the bill, it was more than what they had quoted so I questioned the difference in price, and they told me that they used a more expensive anesthetic because of the high risk.
IMO if I did not trust my vet, I would not take my babies to him, but I would never try to tell them how to do their job. |
It's good that you trust your vet. That is important. However, this woman has no vet. She has a pit bull and I think she gives the shots to it herself. She was not even aware of heartworms until these recent discussions regarding the little one that she found.
She is of the mind that she has rescued the dog and it now has a better life for it. Which is true, but only to a point. She will not spend much money (as would most any of us here, as needed) and we were talking about that very thing when I was advising my friend. When I told her it would cost more for the proper anesthesia, she said...and I quote "She won't do that"...I volunteered to pay the extra and also to pay for the prescreening bloodwork before the spay because she won't do that either. Sooo....my concern is that since she doesn't have a vet, if she takes a stray dog in deplorable condition to '
a' vet and she doesn't want to spend any extra, then it is my belief that the dog may not make it.
So yes...you wouldn't take your babies to a vet you didn't trust....but then...this is a situation that is a far cry from 'normal' and very much different to
your situation. I'm trying to make sure she knows how important it is to ask for certain things that you already know but she doesn't. I am simply trying to help save this little life, not tell a vet how to do his/her job.