Would you spend a hefty medical bill on your pet?

• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  29 Oct 06, 12:45

  like say $20,000 on some injured stray cat or a pet of your own?
• Cenarious

  29 Oct 06, 12:46

  i will put it to sleep with an injection
• striderz_o405

  30 Oct 06, 07:16

  nope. $20 000 can last me a few years at least
• jetta

  30 Oct 06, 07:20

  Happened to us. $100 here, $300 there, next thing we knew..... total came to $7K.
• skid

  30 Oct 06, 07:32

  $7k for a pet? you have too much money
• T.Ryousuke

  30 Oct 06, 08:27

  Can buy insurance?
• anhydrouscoppersulphate

  30 Oct 06, 13:08

  but animals have a life too and so do chemical substances
• missqi

  30 Oct 06, 13:09

  depends.
  If I canafford it; and I really love the pet; I will.
  But if i have to go to the extent of taking a loan etc etc, then no.
• jetta

  31 Oct 06, 05:54

  Originally posted by skid:

  $7k for a pet? you have too much money

  Hardly. He took ill during our move here. Caught a virus leaving Japan, caught two more on the drive from WA. He wasn't himself for a while. Took him to the neighbourhood doc who prescribed antibiotic after same after same. He wasn't responding and was referred to a specialist. They had to determine what was ailing him so they did test after test after test. Lab tests show that he caught a rare virus and is on human meds. To cut the story short, that's how the bill came to be what it was.
  
• jetta

  31 Oct 06, 05:54

  Originally posted by T.Ryousuke:

  Can buy insurance?

  Yes but we'd gone for years with no health problems until we moved. By then it was already too late.
• pierre^^

  31 Oct 06, 07:16

  i think she is amazing lor, to spend 20k on her pet
  
  its nt up to us to judge whether worth it or not
  
  her pets are surely very xin fu thats for certain