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M.C. Mullen - 09 Jan 2004 17:41 GMT

At long last we got rid of the ear mites Micky - the shelter cat - had (now
the dog has them!).
The vet got mad at me today for refusing to pay his bill! He more or less
kicked me out of his practice and did not say good-bye ... :-(
He said that the dog had given them to the cat, but the opposite is true.
And I *did* show the cat to the vet within the two weeks I got the cat at
the shelter. (That's in the contract.) The agreement was that I'd get a
healthy cat for quite a good amount of money. Well, he didn't earn anything
from me -sorry about that - but then a cat got a loving home and he didn't
treat it right at the beginning. The ear mites have gone only after I talked
him into giving the cat two injections. This I have learned from two other
vets, thankfully. This vet is renowned to be looking for money first of all.
Why do I write all this? Well, I'm frustrated with the vet and also I'm
going through one of the low passages of owning pets. But when Micky comes
and cuddles up beside me in the night, purring, then I have to say: it's
worth it!

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Carola

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Kalyahna - 10 Jan 2004 01:58 GMT

> This vet is renowned to be looking for money first of all.

Is this the vet that runs the shelter from which you adopted this cat? Or
just the vet -for- the shelter, or a private vet? If there's someone higher
than this vet at the shelter (or at the practice, for that matter), lodge a
complaint. Shelters don't exist to make money. Anyone working or
volunteering for a shelter who's forgotten we exist to help animals should
get out of the shelter until they remember why they got into it in the first
place. And it's -never- for the money.

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M.C. Mullen - 10 Jan 2004 07:09 GMT

| > This vet is renowned to be looking for money first of all.
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| get out of the shelter until they remember why they got into it in the first
| place. And it's -never- for the money.

It's the vet who has started the shelter and is in charge of it.
He wants to build an extension, so he needs money. That would be OK so far,
but he is known to work 7/24, and he's known to be expensive. What annoyed
me is that he didn't just talk to me normally because I would have
understood his position. But he shouted at me and gave me the blame where it
was not fair. I would have expected more from an intelligent person, but
then vets are only people too - and I hit his sensitive spot: money.

Carola

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