Posted by NCWayne on January 07, 2009 at 03:07:43 from (166.82.169.10):
In Reply to: O/T Farm Dog's posted by 37chief on January 06, 2009 at 19:56:28:
I know what you mean. At one time I had 6 to 8 dogs around here all at once and they never got taken to the vet for anything. Other than the ones that got "taken" at a young age by getting in the road they all lived to be a ripe old age. I believe the oldest was going on 13 and half cripple from two gunshot wounds( recieved in her wonderings, and which I had treated) when she wondered off somewhere to die.
Thankfully back then we had a local vet that was an older guy who cared more about the animals than the money so he treated both the pet and the anuimal right. Like when dad took a cat in for it"s "shots" at Mom"s insistance. Doc told him there were X number of shots he "could" give and it would cost X amount but the cat really only NEEDED these two or three in particular and they weren"t expensive. His words were there"s no need to spend $50 in shots on a 50 cent cat. Yet he was also the type of guy that did whatr was needed when needed. Like the time one of my brood got shot and it broke the bone in her left rear leg. I couldn"t afford alot of "care" at the time so I ask him to just set it and do what he could as cheap as possible. When he got in the leg during surgery he took it upon himself to put in a metal pin needed to support the brake until it was healed even though it cost alot more than I could pay. He did the "extra" work free of charge, for the sake of the dog, and then he also went back in and removed the pin free of charge. You couldn"t ask for a better man thn that.
My next experience with the same vet hospital some years later, was after the father had gotten out of the business due to age and health problems. I took in one of the brood with a tumor on her neck. That visit cost me over $100 for them to tell me simply that she had a tumor (that I knew)and that they needed to put her to sleep (for X amount of course), even though it wasn"t really bothering her. I brought her back home and she lived another 6 months just doing her thing as usual until she died in her sleep one night. She was nearly 14 at the time.
I think society nowdays has forced the issue of "animal rights" on people along with the thought that animals are people too for so long that some actually believe it (the PETA people for instance). Granted I love my dogs like they were family but in the end I still remember that although I do treat them right, they are animals and not human.
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