Quote:
|
Originally Posted by tartisst That's why it pays to have a good relationship with your vet. Our vet had just opened her practice when I got Tyson & Conan (15 years ago). Despite having 3 or 4 vets within blocks of our home, I will drive to her office (about 20 minutes away) because she would do anything for my dogs, and not worry about asking for payment up front.
When Conan died, it was at her office (he was a puppy mill dog with congenital heart problems) she cut open his chest and hand massaged his heart to try to get it started again. I know that the Lord allowed it to happen that way because a) He knew that I would not be able to handle coming home and finding Conan dead and b) I know that my vet went above and beyond duty trying to save him and all that could be done to save him was done. Despite all of her efforts and time and medicine, she did not charge me for anything related to the office visit. All she asked me to pay for (and days later mind you) was $99.00 to cover his cremation and the urn for me to keep my boy at home and that was what the cremation place was charging her.
I've called her in the middle of the night with questions and she has sent out broadcast faxes trying to help me find Coty. She has also agreed, if it comes a time when one of my dogs needs to be put down, she will come to my home and do it in a loving environment so that we would never have to face doing it in her office.
That's the kind of relationship I want to have with my vet. Just not some "show me the money" type who really has no interest in me or my pet.
Just my 2 cents worth. |
Yeah, I have a good relationship with my regular family vet also. We have been going there for over 2 years with about 8 different animals. They don't usually let people charge, but she lets us.. and gives us discounts.
But the vet that turned this woman down was an emergency vet. She said that it wasn't her fault.. that the people who owned the clinic had certain rules or something. I think that if people don't have the money to pay for certain things right then and its an emergency (not a family vet) they could atleast give our family vets a call and see how good our credit is with them, and if its good they could work out a payment plan with people.