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<p class="MsoNormal">Max is my son’s three year old blond tiger cat.
He is much beloved by our bassets, being a houseguest of ours on several
occasions. This past Friday, my son’s wife was getting ready for
work in the morning and found Max unresponsive on the kitchen floor. She
woke my son up (he works nights) and my son rushed him to the vet. Vet
tech says it will likely be around $2,000. My son is sitting in the vets
office crying because they might as well have said $50,000 – they are
just out of college, newlyweds, just trying to make their start in life in a
bad economy. The vet says she will give him $500 credit that he can take
18 months to pay off and discounted down to about $700 total. Anyway, Max
has a blockage and his bladder was filled up and he was being poisoned because
he couldn’t urinate. Xrays and ultrasound showed nothing so they
keep him sedated and work on getting his system flushed out. Max came
home and had to be rushed back to vet several hours later and is going through
same process again – another $400 to $600. Hopefully this will
work. Vet says surgery might be an option, but no guarantee that would
work either and would be about $2,000. They simply don’t have that
kind of money, especially for a “maybe”. We have offered to
help as much as we can, but we don’t have that kind of money
either. It is the first time son has had to make difficult decisions
related to the animals – it has always been dad and I who have made the
tough calls about our animals being pts. Any drool that could be spared
that Max’s second treatment will work would be greatly appreciated by the
bassets and the rest of our family.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alicia, Flo, Gabe and Liz</p>
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