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.
“”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.
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.
I think the 2nd woman should’ve had pity on the little girl and given the dog back. IMO.
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.
The article said she was told the dog was very unlikely to survive and was in a lot of pain. It seems that if she were told the dog could have a "second chance," she would have tried to save it.
Really? The vet led her to believe, if the story is correct, that the dog couldn't be saved except for extremely expensive measures and probably wouldn't survive then. I think this doc was in the business of getting owners to sign over the rights to their pets and then selling them to others. I would sue this doc for misleading me on the condition of my dog and failing to explain what I was signing, he**, she even paid money for a cremation that didn't take place.