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Oculus Spirit [80998]
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A guy who works for me has a dog that has cancer.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:26 PM
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for the second time. And diabetes. and is blind. The dog is 17. SEVENTEEN.
Dude is putting this dog through chemo.
I'm probably one of the biggest dog lovers around, so I cant say that I blame the guy I know. I understand why he would want to keep his dog alive as long as he can. But what veterinarian encourages this to happen? Or even allows it?
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Man, my dog was 6 and the vet said we could try chemo but
Mar 2, 2021, 12:29 PM
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ultimately, it probably wouldn't help. She had one that kills almost ALL the dogs, very little chance of survival, HIGH chance of very expensive vet bills.
I wouldn't have done it anyway. I just don't see doing that to a 17 year old dog, it is 5 years older than I ever expect to keep a dog. 12 years is a damn good life for most dogs.
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Yup, I agree with you.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:31 PM
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I like to think I'm pretty far on the right side of the dog lover bell curve too, but when things happen to a pet that require major expenditures, I'm certainly not immune to applying a cost/benefit analysis that's definitely a lot more fiscally conservative than one I would do for a person.
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I love my dogs...
Mar 2, 2021, 12:32 PM
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but if you ever hear me call them my "kids," or "fur babies" - please shoot me.
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The love of cats is SO WEIRD to me
Mar 2, 2021, 12:35 PM
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Sorry Beefsteak. But those cat people on Reddit and Imgur literally ruin the main pages and the things they post are outright cringeworthy.
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that sums it up quite well.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:37 PM
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You could have taken those words right out of my mouth actually.
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It's becoming harder to love mine
Mar 2, 2021, 12:43 PM
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I don't know when it happened or why, but sometime over the past year a switch flipped in my head and I'm having an increasingly difficult time justifying keeping dirty animals in my house that are constantly in my way. I've already banned them from the boat, and quite frankly, it has been 10000X more enjoyable with out them.
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No-way...nuh-uh to dogs on my boat.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:50 PM
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Only thing that would change my mind would be a pontoon or a center console with virtually zero upholstery.
We have friends with no kids and a lab that they bring out on their boat. The first 10 minutes of every tie-up are spent maneuvering this massive swim ladder into place and strapping it to the swim platform so the dog can get in and out of the boat, and the upholstery throughout the boat is just a series of claw holes.
I'll be happy to see my pups when I get off the water and they'll be happy to see me.
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Surprisingly, I've only got one little tear from a claw
Mar 2, 2021, 12:56 PM
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My breaking point was spending an hour pulling dog hair out of the scuppers and unclogging every drain. That, and the ~45 minutes it took me to wash the mud and stuff out for even a 10 minute boat ride with them. Oh, and the fact that they'd bug the #### out of me constantly while I'm just trying to cruise and drink a beer. The constant need for attention was a lot cuter when I had almost unlimited free time.
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Oculus Spirit [80998]
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I don't mind my dog in the boat too much.
Mar 2, 2021, 1:23 PM
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But he's hard headed, ill trained, and doesn't listen. So that causes a problem when its just me trying to deal with him going apeshit barking at pelicans, dolphin, or other dogs.
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Its not even a cost thing to me.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:40 PM
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But it sounds like it is for the vet. The dog has lived a full life around loyal, loving owners. I think that's pretty much all a dog wants. That, and I'd imagine, to not be in pain.
I always thought when a dog loses its quality of life, that its time to do the compassionate thing and humanely put them down. I mean that's more than we give our closest loved ones.
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It's amazing to me how rip-offy so many vets are.
Mar 2, 2021, 12:47 PM
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When my large dog was a couple years old, a babysitter left the gate open and he got hit by a car, shattering his front right leg. Wife freaked out, too him to emergency vet who gave him narcotics and put him in a splint until he could have surgery in the morning (and I should have seen warning flags when the vet was in Brentwood).
They put a plate in his leg and we got a jaw dropping $4000 bill.
A month or so later, one of the assistant coaches I was coaching lacrosse with was a vet, and I asked him about it...."Dude, that would have been $400 in my office". Still pisssses me off.
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This. If it is a big dog, especially, at 17 he/she/it is in
Mar 2, 2021, 12:48 PM
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pain
*I didn't want to assume the pronouns there
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Seems like it's a fine line between a vet who cares too much
Mar 2, 2021, 12:45 PM
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and one that doesn't care enough. We've gone from one that just throws some pills at whatever you say is wrong, to one that wants to do an MRI for a swollen paw. I'd like to find a happy medium, but not sure if it exists.
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17? He needs to put the dog down.
Mar 2, 2021, 1:12 PM
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I love my animals but can’t spend crazy money on them. Poster my cat I posted a few months ago that he was disoriented and had some issue. Called the vet and they wanted to bring him in for all types of blood te$ts. I never brought him and now he is close to normal again, he still has a little crook to his head when he runs but is fine in every other way.
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Sounds like someone I used to know....***
Mar 2, 2021, 1:49 PM
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