We've got a cat that started throwing up Monday night and stopped eating and drinking. Worried, my wife took him to the vet today. $500, an X-ray and some fluids later and they're telling my wife he appears to have a bowel obstruction (fucker eats plastic wrappers) and that he needs exploratory surgery. The cost of the surgery is $3000 - $4300 depending on the extent of the work needed. Being we're in Hollywood and that in the history of estimates, nobody ends up completing a job on the low end of the range, I'm assuming it would cost about $4000 on top of the $500 we've already spent.
My wife's 17 year old purebred just died and this cat is a descendant of that one so it means a lot to her. We're both on the fence about what to do though. My initial inclination is not to spend $4000 on an animal, especially when it can just chew on another wrapper a few months from now and we'll be in the same boat. My wife is also thinking along the same lines. On the other hand, $4000 is cheap enough that it's relatively affordable.
Would you spend $4000 on an animal? Should I? I don't know.
My wife's 17 year old purebred just died and this cat is a descendant of that one so it means a lot to her. We're both on the fence about what to do though. My initial inclination is not to spend $4000 on an animal, especially when it can just chew on another wrapper a few months from now and we'll be in the same boat. My wife is also thinking along the same lines. On the other hand, $4000 is cheap enough that it's relatively affordable.
Would you spend $4000 on an animal? Should I? I don't know.