Dont you think this has gone on long enough?

[Maureen Collinson]

Originally Posted by Lucifus

Im still waiting to hear if PDSA treat reptiles as i don't believe they do but theirs no mention of it on the site.

As meko said if i was dumped with a £600 pound bill that would be impossible to pay. I dont have £600 worth of items and id probally be paying off that for the next 3 years. I doupt many people could afford that much either.

The PDSA does not treat reptiles.

Mo.

[Fangio]

Originally Posted by Maureen Collinson

The PDSA does not treat reptiles.

Mo.

That's a shame.

[tplatts98]

why should you think about vet bills when you buy reps not every animal has to go to vets it is only when idiots get them. i have had dogs, cats, horses and lots of other animals and reptiles when i was younger and they only ever went to the vets for the buster jabs that the need when they are young. so their is a really high chance that you never after go to the vets if you look after them correctly.

[sparkle]

Originally Posted by Meko

So Sparkle.. you have £600 lying around to treat your dog for cancer? or £2000 to treat your cat who got ran over and you found out your insurance direct debit hadn't been paid for some reason?

Or when i found out Rio had cancer and if i didn't have the money i should have just given him away?

my opinion is that your opinion sucks.

SO MEKO... nice to see an emotional over reaction from you... and of course taking things to extremes... if you read my whole post you will see what my issue IS.. and its not finding 2 grand thats for sure...


since when did i have a dog anyway...

i have insurance on my animals.. and i check monthly the DD has been paid since I was a mortgage advisor i am well aware about Direct debit issues but you actually get 2 months grace for insurance... or at least GOOD insurance..

and YES i have plenty savings hunny

dont you remember i saved a water dragon this year that cost me £500 and no i didnt have insurance for her..

wasnt even my animal..i took her on paid her vet bills.. got her a tank with all the stats and uv..from my OWN money...

i dont drink( well very rarely lol).. dont smoke .. dont go holidays...dont do drugs and make sure i am careful with all my household bills.. that way i always have plenty back up financially..i dont have a credit card.. dont buy designer clothes...

so i can afford to keep and treat ALL my animals actually..

if i had to find 2 grand meko to save a cat... i could... but thats not the issue is it....

however,... to explain further

not have 2 grand is one thing.. not to have 30 quid for a consultation is another..

thats what i was talking about

the fact the animal cant even be taken to be SEEN once.. thats not forgivable in my books...

can we play the my opinion is your opinion on my opinion sucks game..

oh no silly me..

its bed time

night night x

[Faith]

I dont agree we far from have £600 laying around to pay for vet bills but for large bills like that 99% of vets will do payment plans.
As for the boy in question, no he shouldnt be allowed to keep pets if his parents cant afford to take them to the vet or at least sort it out so that there is money set aside for minor treatment, we are talking about a consoultation and maybe some baytril or a fecal test, no more than £60 in a decent vets.
Whats that the same price as a pair of trainers

I do honestly believe that if you cant afford vet treatment at the time your pet is ill then, you should take advice from people who have dealt with the same problems in the past.
People have been known to sell their whole collections on here when they recieve a huge vet bill.

For people with one or two reps insurance is available, but for people like me and the OH who have over 100 reps no insurance company will take us, the only one that will wants to charge us more than the vet bill would cost if something was to go wrong with one of them.

For once (mods dont fall over) i agree with you.

[Tina]

What if someone, when they buy their pets (whatever they may be), has a good income and can afford any vets bills that come along or can afford to pay for pet insurance... but then they lose their job?

Would someone say 'they shouldn't have bought a pet' then?

Similarly a child may be bought a reptile (or whatever) by their parents at a time when their income is fine, but circumstances change... as they are doing for an awful lot of people at the moment... should the child's pet be rehomed because it may need vets bills the parent may not be able to afford at some time?

It's not black and white... there are always grey areas which need to be considered.

A vet worth their salt would never turn a sick animal away because someone can't pay there and then... payment plans can always be discussed.

My son is 12 and he only gets £5 a week pocket money... out of which he has to buy pinkys for his snake and food for his gerbils. But if they ever became ill I'd foot the bills because I see them as much my responsibility as his as he is so young. Not all kids have parents who will unfortunately.

[sparkle]

Originally Posted by Fangio

That's a shame.

its a pain.. but then again i guess it would be difficult to have an exotic vet paid and on call all the time if they didnt get enough reps in....

[Meko]

Originally Posted by sparkle

SO MEKO... nice to see an emotional over reaction from you... and of course taking things to extremes... if you read my whole post you will see what my issue IS.. and its not finding 2 grand thats for sure...


since when did i have a dog anyway...

i have insurance on my animals.. and i check monthly the DD has been paid since I was a mortgage advisor i am wellaware about Direct debit issues but you actually get 2 months grace for insurance... or at least GOOD insurance..

and YES i have plenty savings hunny

dont you remember i saved a water dragon this year that cost me £500 and no i didnt have insurance for her..

wasnt even my animal..i took her on paid her vet bills.. got her a tank with all the stats and uv..from my OWN money...

i dont drink.. dont smoke .. dont go holidays...dont do drugs and make sure i am careful with all my household bills.. that way i always have plenty back up financially..i dont have a credit card.. dont buy designer clothes...

so i can afford to keep and treat ALL my animals actually..

if i had to find 2 grand meko to save a cat... i could... but thats not the issue is it....

however,... to explain further

not have 2 grand is one thing.. not to have 30 quid for a consultation is another..

thats what i was talking about

the fact the animal cant even be taken to be SEEN once.. thats not forgivable in my books...

can we play the my opinion is your opinion on my opinion sucks game..

oh no silly me..

its bed time

night night x

your arguement would have had much more substance if you hadn't edited the part out about not keeping animals if you couldn't afford vet bills a WHOLE 3 MINUTES after i posted.
Your opinion sucked, you changed your opinion and then tried to argue so your argument is as sucky as your opinion.

[Lucifus]

Originally Posted by tplatts98

why should you think about vet bills when you buy reps not every animal has to go to vets it is only when idiots get them. i have had dogs, cats, horses and lots of other animals and reptiles when i was younger and they only ever went to the vets for the buster jabs that the need when they are young. so their is a really high chance that you never after go to the vets if you look after them correctly.

Exactly.

What i mean however is maybe people don't deserve to keep the animals. But what right do we have unless they are being kept in extremely dire circumstances to tell them they don't deserve them. People come here to ask for help only to be told that they don't deserve to keep animals at all. It doesn't make us look good at all and we are adding distress to a situation that is already stressful.

Friendly advice and gentle reassurance to take them to the vet is what is needed. Not "Omfg wtf bbq you dont deserve to keep animals".

Also maybe i dont deserve to keep animals because i cant afford a £600 vet bill, my student loan/grants come to a total of £4500 a year. What right do people have to tell me i dont deserve to keep them? Especially since a good portion of keepers are students.

[Faith]

Originally Posted by tplatts98

why should you think about vet bills when you buy reps not every animal has to go to vets it is only when idiots get them. i have had dogs, cats, horses and lots of other animals and reptiles when i was younger and they only ever went to the vets for the buster jabs that the need when they are young. so their is a really high chance that you never after go to the vets if you look after them correctly.

Why would you think about insurance when you buy a car?
Its not only when idiots get reps that they need the vet, for example every time we move our royals viv, even if its from one side of the room to the other you can bet she gets an RI, she has been checkedover by a vet countless times and its down to her stressing.
We then take her to the vet get her baytril.
Or what about parasites on live foods for lizards?
Its a very sweeping statment your making, basically your saying that only owners that are idiots end up at the vets.