Paul demanded Attitude get a second opinion on her nasty URI(he was refusing to give her her antibiotic so she was really bad.) Vet told him my vet had done everything right(which I could have told him and DID.) Vet was all gloom and doom and the only thing that saved her from being put down was me saying that she was my cat and she still had a quality of life and there was no way in heck I was having her put to sleep. I knew in my heart if I didn't go to this appointment I wasn't going to have a cat anymore. Not to mention I'm not putting my cat to sleep because she has a URI. Trying a new antibiotic, hopefully it works. I have never been to such a pessimistic vet in my life. Needless to say she will never be back there, not that I was going to change vets anyways. They were almost bullying us into putting her to sleep, the vet didn't even have his fatality statistics correct. It also didn't help when he said the oldest FeLV+ cat they ever had made it to 6, at my vet they have had 10+ year old cats and one of the vets had an uncle whose FeLV+ cat lived to be 17 and died of old age. I know all cats are different but they said 6 like it was some great number, my vet isn't happy when they make it to 10.
I have never had a worse vet visit in my life. I told Paul I will only consider putting Attitude to sleep when MY vet brings it up not some vet who has seen my cat once, especially considering it was almost like they were trying to bully us into it. My vet is always willing to try something else as long as we are, they were basically telling us that there was no use in doing anything and we should give up. I made him give us a different antibiotic(one we haven't tried before) and we paid and got out of there. I'm still steaming over this. I almost lost my cat. If it wasn't for me going to this appointment they would have bullied Paul into putting her to sleep.
Taryn
I have never had a worse vet visit in my life. I told Paul I will only consider putting Attitude to sleep when MY vet brings it up not some vet who has seen my cat once, especially considering it was almost like they were trying to bully us into it. My vet is always willing to try something else as long as we are, they were basically telling us that there was no use in doing anything and we should give up. I made him give us a different antibiotic(one we haven't tried before) and we paid and got out of there. I'm still steaming over this. I almost lost my cat. If it wasn't for me going to this appointment they would have bullied Paul into putting her to sleep.
Taryn