Well, least I have one emergency trip I can now laugh at, but it was 20 years ago.
My young female cat, suddenly started walking really low to the ground, and crying. My older sister was over, she said "you need to take that cat to the vet, something is hurting her bad, she's in pain"! Well, TC continuted this even when company left, so I took her to the emergency clinic, with my Visa card that only had like 500 dollar limit at that time. I was just getting established in life back then, and was having a tough time making ends meet.
We'd had cats all our lives, but they were all male cats. Seems Mom would never let us keep a female.
I think this was 1986. Later it got, the more pain she looked like she was in, I looked up the one emergency vet, and off we went. They saw me and TC immediately. They checked her out good, and told me my cat was "In Heat", charged me $100 bucks and sent me home!!
My older sister and I still laugh about that one! I paid 100 bucks to find out my cat was in heat! My big sis got a cat last year, and it was female. When it came in heat, I told her "you need to take that cat to the vet, somethings wrong with it"! We both laughed.
When I had her spayed several weeks later, the total bill was like 65 bucks back then! Cost more to find out she was in heat, than to spay her! LOL
Emergency clinics can be good or bad, but glad to know I'm not the only one that feels they got ripped off. But 20 years later, I can now laugh at my trip, and call it "experience". |