[Rhetts_mama]

What does one truly expect an emergency vet to do when someone shows up with a dog? Not defending the practice, but I can fully understand why someone would refuse treatment of a dog they have never seen before with someone who "forgets" their credit card. I'm sure they have learned the hard way that many of these pet owners promise to run out to get it (while the dogs are being treated) and just don't come back. It sucks that they have to refuse, but I do understand. I'm wondering if Tanisha would be so understanding of someone coming to pick up a dog from her "forgetting" forgetting their wallet and letting the dog go home with them with the understanding that they will bring the money by later. For some reason, I don't think so.

Now, if it were me, I would be calling everyone I knew and asking them to go over to my house and get my credit card, call the vet and give them the information over the phone rather than wasting time. But again, that's just me. My regular vet has my cc info on file, along with a list of people who are authorized to seek emergency care for my pets in the event I'm not around.

So let us recap: After being told by a vet that her dog would most likely need a c-section, she decides to have the dog labor at home on the off chance that the puppy would suddenly be much smaller and the pelvis much bigger. The dog then starts passing green fluid. Can someone enlighten me? In people, green fluid means either an infection or that the fetus has passed meconium in to the fluid due to distress- I would assume it is the same with dogs.

Only after the green fluid shows up does she get concerned enough to go to a vet. Without her money. Now, presumably she knows she is going to an emergency vet 45 minutes away. Presumably one would think that , knowing your girl was likely to require a c-section, one would have an emergency plan in place including method of payment. I know, I know, I am making presumptions about what a normal caring person would do...

After showing up at the vet without any $$, she gets miffed that the vet won't see her. She now presumably returns home (another 45 minutes) then returns to the vet again (45 minutes again) so the c-section can be performed. The dog has now been in distress for well over 2 hours. If that isn't animal cruelty on her part, I don't know what is.

Some people really should be horsewhipped.