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Cats307 · 03-29-2017, 09:42 PM

My daughters rag doll cat ate thread and was wrapped around his intestines. The vet said he has to have surgery to save the cats life but he was booked and couldn't do it. This was at 11 this morning. We all called every vet in town and out of town. Not one vet would do it. There is a ER vet here so she took him in when they opened at 5:00 tonight. She paid them $2400 up front for surgery. The cat had to wait 7 1/2 hours for surgery.. 13 hours after the vet said had to have it right away. Don't vets have some sort of code of ethics? She was willing to pay more because it was a emergency. That's just awful to let a animal suffer. Now they said it might not live anyways. That was after they took her money of course and let it sit for 7 hours!

03-29-2017, 09:42 PM	#1
Cats307 Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: Fargo Posts: 230	What's up with vets not willing to do Emergency surgery? My daughters rag doll cat ate thread and was wrapped around his intestines. The vet said he has to have surgery to save the cats life but he was booked and couldn't do it. This was at 11 this morning. We all called every vet in town and out of town. Not one vet would do it. There is a ER vet here so she took him in when they opened at 5:00 tonight. She paid them $2400 up front for surgery. The cat had to wait 7 1/2 hours for surgery.. 13 hours after the vet said had to have it right away. Don't vets have some sort of code of ethics? She was willing to pay more because it was a emergency. That's just awful to let a animal suffer. Now they said it might not live anyways. That was after they took her money of course and let it sit for 7 hours!