Making decision about treating cat's jaw cancer

CountingDown
Fri, 14 Sep 2018 01:44:39 +0000

^^^True – Our sweet girl was hit by a car at age 6 and had numerous injuries (broken bones, temporary blindness, collapsed lung, etc.). We paid for four days in doggie ICU and I nursed her at home (and work) for a month afterwards as she healed. No question about what we would do, though we did tell the specialty vet we had a budget (and amazing how the bill came out to exactly that amount…).

We did draw the line at a doggie ventilator – $1500/day and not a good survival rate when a dog came off of one. If she needed a ventilator, she was suffering, so that was our line in the sand. But she was a very young six yo, in excellent health – and she recovered beautifully and lived another eight years. You’d never know how injured she was.

We did have a running joke about how she used up her Doggie Training 529 account after the accident.