My dog was acting a bit odd this morning, wasn't eating, wandering around. She's also been coughing for a week as well. So I took her to the vet this morning and the vet also did some blood tests and ruled out tick bite and the usual stuff. It was discovered she has a high temperature of 40.8 and a high white blood cell count which means she has an infection so he asked to keep her there for the day to get the fever under control.
Vet phoned back late this afternoon and said that her fever has gone down a bit but not to normal level, so he wants to keep her there tonight to ensure she gets better. He also wanted permission to do a chest x-ray to see if there's a reason for the coughing because the blood tests aren't showing anything that can cause the cough. But long story short, the bill will be about R2000, and I said that fine.
My colleagues at work heard the bill amount and started saying that they would never pay that much for a pet and would rather put them down. Their attitude was pretty much the maximum amount they would pay is R1000, anything over that just put the animal down.
Do people really value their pets so little that a bill of R2000 isn't worth the love and joy a pet gives you? My dog is 10 years old, and apart from the annual visits to the vet for boosters, this is the 3rd time she has gone to the vet for being ill which averages out to about R600 per year in vet bills.
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