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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One more vet gripe. I have paid way too much at
times and the meds really are too much. I spent $1000 one year while all the vet
did was treat for a post surgical ear ache, (another place did the surgery) and
repeat visits back for the ears and he failed to find the real problem
which caused me to take my Basset for emergency spinal surgery. The surgeon and
hospital stay was $4000, but at least that vet saved my dog. Before that I had
tried a vet closer to home and took him in for a "wellness" check-up with full
blood panel, urinalysis, dental and one extraction I knew nothing of. They said
he had a broken tooth. Maybe he did. That was maybe 5-6 years ago; over $600.
The first vet I took my baby to seemed to make it come out to what he
needed for the month. His tech mumbled once that the meds were too much.
So, I now take my boy when he is sick, which he hasn't been since I took him off
some of the extra shots and the pesticides they were giving for worm
"prevention". I do some natural treatments and had an holistic vet visit last
year. He is 11.5 and being a partially disabled dog with spinal injury, I
don't give his system any more vaccines to fight than his 3 yr rabies shot.
He won't likely live for another one. I went from taking whatever the vets said
to doubting some, to taking it into my own hands. My boy is fine to date. No
more awful heaving and diarreah. I'm not sure how I would raise another pet in
the future, but I would think for
myself. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>