The other day, I took my "free" dog to the vet because she was limping a bit. He said that it was just an inflamed joint and handed me a full bottle of pain meds (for dog not me), with the instructions to use as necessary. Total visit $97.00.
Note to self: do not put "child" proof bottle of 25 chicken flavored canine narcotics on the kitchen counter when canine is on a weight loss campaign.
Upon returning to the house, after being gone 1.5 hours, I discovered the medicine bottle remnants shredded to bits on the floor and no sign of any delicious dog medicine. Doggy overdose. Times 2 dogs.
Off we (Achilles, Nuka, and myself) go to the emergency vet hospital. I had no way of knowing which dog ingested what amount of pills.
Soooo... both dogs were:
- vet scanned AVAH (whatever the hell that is) $73
- E&CC Emergency (what?) $115
- Apomorphine emisis (OK?) $64.20
- Apomorphine 1mg (I thought they did this already...see above) $28.39
- Activated Charcoal (gave them a briquette) $57.80
- Plasmalyte 1L (blood transfusion???) $25.00
- IVF Admin Set-macro (now they are pregnant with something big?) $10.20
$373.59 EACH
The vet recommended that I leave the dogs for observation for 48 hours - the amount of time of possible renal failure. When she added that it would be $800-$1000 per DAY per DOG........................................................................................................................................................................................................I declined.
Yay!!!!! Free dog!!!!
Oh, no! This is why Don says we'll never have a vet bill more than $75, and it better happen on a Wednesday because garbage day is Thursday . . . but he calls her "sweetie pie" . . .
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to time that I can stop swearing at the dog....
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