From:
Cecilia McNamara
Date: 2002-10-18 03:40:53 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Just lost another ferret
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3DAF82C5.82EA5C9F@sympatico.ca>
There are so many incidence of faulty care that can be understood and so many that cannot. We have had both. In one instance (we almost lost three and did loose one on this day due to improper care so we found out) the vet just gave me a blank look and said "I'm sorry for your loss" and left the room. Needless to say after we had left with our dead cat and paid the bill a day or two later we were pretty mad and wrote a letter to the vet with no flames and asked
about the whole thing and told the story from our perspective. She never answered. We never went back. The vet we use now is a triple crown vet. The whole office has an undercurrent of warmth and helpfulness. Time after time - we foster cats and have many ferrets - sometimes 20 or 30 animals in the house - we are in there with situations. They have kept animals all day to see what's wrong and not charged me. They have put animals to sleep on an emergency basis
and never charged me. They have given me bags of lactated ringers and needles to sub q some and never charged me. They call to see how things are going. It just amazing. I love it.
Sometimes vets get jaded and just loose touch I think.
Cecilia
mjanke@miamiferret.org wrote:
> I personally would have expected the vet to take care of a burn that happened under his care at no charge. This borders on negligence... in my opinion.
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> In my case, my 19 year old Peanut (cat) died during dental cleaning and removal of a couple bad teeth. We knew he had a slight heart murmur, but did x-rays and a ECG prior to be sure he would be OK to have this done. My vet exercised the utmost care but he stopped breathing and passed away during the procedure. We had no choice but to try because his teeth were so bad that he couldn't even eat. I paid for the extensive pre-surgical bloodwork, but that was all.
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> Author wrote:
> The surgery went very well, but during recovery he was burned severely by a heating pad. (As a matter of fact, my personal opinion is that he nearly died of heat exhaustion during the recovery. He was panting like crazy but the vet said that was normal). A reconstructive surgery was needed to repair the severely burned skin and I was charged $130.
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