09-08-2018, 03:28 AM
(09-07-2018, 03:43 PM)Catherine Wrote: I encountered something that made me angry. There is a specialist cat vet. My friend's old cat was dying and needed to be put down. We didn't want him to suffer. It was expensive, but for a fee the vet would take the cat into a back room and kill it for you.
If you paid much more money, you could be present when the cat died. My friend just couldn't afford the extra fee so her cat was deprived of her company when he died. That is very wrong! Very mercenary and greedy.
I am shocked and horrified at this! The vet is using emotional tactics to get more mpney out of people! At a time like that, it is nothing less than cruel and greedy. It has shocked me so much to know anyone could do that, who is supposed to be a helper and healer of animals!
I would never use a vet whom I had heard had done that to anyone.
Here, there is no such thing. There would be a "call out" fee if the euthanasia was preferred at home. That would be the same as the out-of-hours fee (I think) There is always a call out fee when a vet attends a patient at home.
But the actual cost of euthanasia is not expensive here.
And there are no conditions (such as insisting on taking the animal to a back room.) The only time that might happen and the human family member was unable to be with the animal when it passed, would be in an emergency situation, when they take them through to the back to try to save their lives. Then yes, sadly that can happen.
