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24 hour emergency vet clinics


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Posted by CAS on April 08, 2014 at 10:56:05 from (74.67.149.3):

There is a post about 24 hour emergency vet clinics. I had a bad experience at one last year on Memorial day. My favorite cat(Whitey) had a run in with a possum that used to live near my shop. The cat was about 6 months old and got a few puncture wounds and looked to be bleeding internally and was in shock.
Could not find a vet on call in our area that day(no one answered the emergency numbers). I called a 24 hour clinic in Buffalo, NY. The girl told me to bring the cat in and have $500 in my pocket. Long story short, I took the cat and they told me she needed emergency surgery. The vet gave me a written estimate for $1660. Asked the vet if she could give my cat something for pain and rehydrate her to see if it would alleviate the shock symptoms(it was 3 am). The vet obliged and said she had to go and operate on a dog hit by a car. I overhead the estimate for the dog and it was $1958. Then I decided to leave with my cat. Told the office girl and vet I would pay $200 and that was generous. My cat and I left and it was now 5 am. At 8 am took the cat to my local vet. He examined her and aked to keep her a day or two for observation. The cat was good to go and the bill was $125(not bad around here).
The vet told me a lot of the 24 hour clincs in the larger cities are Wall street fincanced. Profit is the number one reason for their existence. I looked in The wall street journal archives online and found two articles to support his claim.
I will really think twice(maybe more) before I go to another 24 hour emergency clinic in the city.


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