Vets...what a ripoff!

>Why not just let the animal suffer through ignorance, then march out and get a
>new one as the fancy takes you? <sheesh>

I'm the one who suffered when I had to pay!

>BTW LOLO, I have it in mind that you are a wind up merchant with that name.
>But I will add this for your perusal: The £25 I paid for a scent gland tumour
>on a gerbil, was on a gerbil from the RSPCA costing nothing :o) Does money
>matter when something is in pain?

I see it more like getting breast implant....it's a LUXURY


Euh

Je poste ceci à l'insu de mon plein gré

> Your attitude that only rich people should have pets is classist at best,
> & in all cases wrong. If one applies your attitude to humans, then it is a

Wrong? Shall we judge, then? It's MY opinion. You're entitled to yours.
Still, here, we're talking about taking responsibility for what a person
takes on. In this case, a life. Not personal convictions.

> good thing that many people die because they can't afford the cost of
> medicine -- they shouldn't even have been born if they couldn't take care
> of themselves better than that. Or children should be taken away from poor
> people if they are unemployed or marginally employed & can't afford the
> $500+ a month it would cost to insure the smallest American family.

Do you really think that? Oddly enough, people on welfare do get medical
care, while someone who is NOT on welfare, but makes only just more than
what the cut-off margin is, is denied that benefit. For that matter,
welfare recipients also get the food debit card, while the starting-out new
graduate from university usually has to live on very little although they
may be employed. And having children IS a choice. But we're not going
there in this thread.

> Really, your attitude is deplorable, & avoids the greater reality that in
> a growing number of regions, veterinarian charges are criminal.

Deplorable? It's unfortunate you feel that way. Perhaps working in
large/small animal rescue may show you what happens when people who should
never have pets acquire them and then can't afford to keep them. That's
what's criminal. And is often punished as such. And, again, vets provide a
service that costs. Period. Do you complain when your mechanic charges for
a brake job? No, not when YOUR life is on the line because of the safety of
the brakes. And, if one can't maintain or insure a car, one simply doesn't
drive.

I would have thought that, as a proponent of 'rights' of all sorts, you
would also advocate the 'right to healthy, pain-free existence and health
care' for animals. Too bad. They can't advocate for themselves,
unfortunately, so I guess it'll fall to those of us who care.

Y.