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Originally Posted by mylittlegirls  You are right, another rescue was mention. They have the same policy, you surrender you pet and they'll do the surgery and put the yorkie up for adoption for a price. Why not let the owner make payment? |
I haven't seen any rescue that will pay for surgery and let the owner make payments. I have seen Vets and Speciality Hospitals have that payment plans options, or they promote Care Credit.
But the problem is, Melody's owners doesn't have any funds to pay anyone back, rescue or vet, so who looses???? Poor Melody.
As far as testing goes, most Vet do have the capabilities to do the simple Bile Acid Test. They can do blood work too, and that will show it anything else is odd. Some Vets do have an Ultra Sound machine, but a U/S is only about 60% accurate in seeing a shunt, and the person read the U/S has to be extremely skilled in looking and seeing shunts, and even then, it's only 60% accurate. A Protein C test can be done too, but has to get sent out. And that's about all that can be done at a General Vet, and to be honest, NONE of those test can say YES there is a Shunt...That's where a Specialist come into play.