Posted on 02/21/2012 1:38:32 PM PST by iowamark
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All I have to say is a child’s prayer was answered.
I’d have that vet’s head on a stick *and* my dog back.
Kindness? I don't think she really had a choice. She should just be happy someone was willing to do what she was unwilling to do and the dog lived.
So who the heck's ashes did she receive?
We've cremated all our dear, lost pets and I've often wondered about the, um, integrity of pet cremation businesses. Do they just fill little bags with the right sized scoop of a group cremation?
“”Pay out all this money and there’s a 20% chance that she’ll live or euthanize her, so it was hard,” said Gossett.”
That hardly sounds like she was “unwilling”.
She trusted the vet’s grim [and apparently incorrect] prognosis and got stabbed in the back for her trouble.
That’s why you get the *body* back.
Not ashes, not *nothing*. Then there’s no question what happened.
Funny, that’s the same way I look at people that take their animal to a vet to get them euthanized.
They are getting somebody else to do what they aren’t willing to do.
“So who the heck’s ashes did she receive?”
Possibly the local woodpile.
Cremation is totally unverifiable - unless you witness a DNA test.
A little more reading up on it, and it turns out Lola was attacked by another dog owned by her owner — who then left her to die with strangers performing euthanasia.
I’d say Lola is lucky to have survived the unsafe environment and to have gotten a second chance of life in a home where, one hopes, she won’t be viciously attacked by other pets.
Actually, this sounds like fraud and the basis to abrogate the release she signed. The vet could be looking at a lawsuit if she is of such a mind.
I think the 2nd woman should’ve had pity on the little girl and given the dog back. IMO.
Crying..scaring dog. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who was willing to do what she was unwilling to do?
The vet said pay ($X) and have a 20% chance of recovery, or pay ($0), and the dog will be put down.
She was unwilling to pay ($X). The dog survived.
So who paid ($X)? Nobody.
The vet gave her dog to “Second Chances”. The dog lived, despite not paying ($X), and the vet then gave her dog away.
Note that the woman was charged for cremation fees.
The vet is scum. The dog obviously did not need ($X) to have a chance to survive, since it survived with ($0) paid. Also, the family was charged for the euthenasia and cremation of their pet.
What did it cost the vet? A bed for the night, $2 for food and water, a phone call to “Second Chances”, and printer ink and paper to print up a phony bill for services not rendered to a family in grief over having to put their family pet down.
I would NEVER leave any dog or other pet to be euthanized. I would never leave them in their last moments with strangers. The times that I’ve had to do it, I’ve held them in my arms, and spoken quietly to them. Then I take them home. I did leave one with the vet for cremation, but I’ve never done that again. It felt wrong.
This is the way I view it, too...
CA....
Gotta wonder.
My husband’s elderly uncle’s body was found in the woods outside the Tri-State Crematory while what everyone thought were his ashes rested in a beautiful urn on the mantel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1828385.stm
If indeed her vet actually lied to her. She may be lying about the vet.
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