xtsho
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One of my dogs got really sick, wouldn't eat and would throw up anything including water and was in pain. She couldn't even walk. Took her to the emergency pet hospital because my normal vet wasn't open due to reduced hours because of Covid. With this Covid stuff you have to wait in your car and they come and get your dog. They called my cell phone after about a half hour and said it would be $800 to run some tests and do some x-rays of her lungs and stuff. Gave them CC number. An hour later they called and said it was really bad kidneys shutting down and that I should think about euthanasia. I said no way and that I'm going to wait and take her to our normal vet as soon as I can get in. I asked them if they could do anything for the pain and they said they'd give her a shot for the nausea and some pain medication to take with us.
Ten minutes later they call again and want another $110. Give the cc# again. Then they bring the dog out and give us a bottle of Gabapentin for the pain. Her nostrils were completely plugged which I hadn't noticed. The stupid girl that brought my dog back to the car just said "I tried to clean them out but she was being hard to deal with. You might want to take care of that". Take care of what? I just paid almost $1000 and they didn't even clean her nostrils so she could breathe properly. I was livid. But kept my mouth shut, took my dog, and got out of there.
That was last Wednesday. I stayed up for two days giving her water and pedialyte with a syringe and feeding her food I liquified in a blender using a meat injector. She got better and now she's barking, pooping, peeing, and eating like the pig she is. Those idiots would have killed my dog if I had listened to them.
Anyway, she's out roaming in the yard and doing great. I can't believe how incompetent that quack shop was. I could have saved the money and just did what I did but we didn't know what was going on. She basically got sick from something and couldn't keep anything down so she got severely dehydrated. It's amazing that such a simple treatment saved my dog when the idiots at the animal hospital couldn't figure it out.
Here she is today out roaming in the yard. I'm so happy. I'm a grown man but I'll admit that I cried more than once during the ordeal. She's my baby and I thought she was going to die. But she's alive not dead no thanks to that damn animal hospital. So it's a brutal story with a happy ending. I love my dog.
Ten minutes later they call again and want another $110. Give the cc# again. Then they bring the dog out and give us a bottle of Gabapentin for the pain. Her nostrils were completely plugged which I hadn't noticed. The stupid girl that brought my dog back to the car just said "I tried to clean them out but she was being hard to deal with. You might want to take care of that". Take care of what? I just paid almost $1000 and they didn't even clean her nostrils so she could breathe properly. I was livid. But kept my mouth shut, took my dog, and got out of there.
That was last Wednesday. I stayed up for two days giving her water and pedialyte with a syringe and feeding her food I liquified in a blender using a meat injector. She got better and now she's barking, pooping, peeing, and eating like the pig she is. Those idiots would have killed my dog if I had listened to them.
Anyway, she's out roaming in the yard and doing great. I can't believe how incompetent that quack shop was. I could have saved the money and just did what I did but we didn't know what was going on. She basically got sick from something and couldn't keep anything down so she got severely dehydrated. It's amazing that such a simple treatment saved my dog when the idiots at the animal hospital couldn't figure it out.
Here she is today out roaming in the yard. I'm so happy. I'm a grown man but I'll admit that I cried more than once during the ordeal. She's my baby and I thought she was going to die. But she's alive not dead no thanks to that damn animal hospital. So it's a brutal story with a happy ending. I love my dog.
