[LordRanger]

My problem was, the vet medicine was not very good. I worked with many different vets. First it took forever for me to even bring him in to the ER, because the first vet I saw said that Ranger had a slipped disk. BIG difference between a slipped disk and a pulmonary embolism. That's like going into the ER with chest pains, and they send you home with some Ben Gay and tell you to sleep it off. 48 hours later, we figured out that the vet was flat out wrong with his diagnosis. Then, we are in the ER, and it takes forever to get a doggone thing done there. When you are in the ER with respiratory distress, and the internal medicine clinic is familiar with your history, it shouldn't take 16 hours to figure out he needs to be getting administered anticoagulants, sildenafil, blood thinners, etc. to see if that improves his condition. I'm very impressed Ranger even lasted as long as he did (72 hours). Yes, he was done--he was definitely done. But his treatment was not. I don't think it cost him his life--his latest kidney levels were an 8 creatinine and phosphorous too high to measure--but he suffered longer than he should have, because the veterinary medicine was slow and sometimes flat out wrong. That is not a statement about any one vet--that is a statement about veterinary medicine in general.