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How much would you pay to save your pet?

mjrpes3

mjrpes3

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More and more advance treatments are becoming available to save pets, who in the past would have been euthanized:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/u...a-pet-but-questions-about-the-costs.html?_r=1

I realize the answer to the question depends a lot on your disposable income. But as costs increase, this almost makes me think twice about getting a pet in the future.... do I want to put myself in this situation where I choose between my pet's life and $10,000?

If so, I would want to force myself to keep a large sum of money on hand as the pet gets older, so I am not unprepared.
 
Flame away, but anyone who would spend 10k on an animal like that is retarded.

And yes I have two animals. And yes I would be sad if they died, but that's a part of life. I would be orders of magnitude more sad if something happened to my daughter. If I had the extra 10k to spend on a pet, I would use it to positively influence her life.
 
Our cat is going through some problems. We set a limit of $500 on treatment. Flat out can't afford to spend more (we're at $400 something so far, between tests and visits in the past two weeks). Though, if the vet said something like "This surgery costs $200 and will fix it" we'd probably go ahead and go over.
 
It depends on the age of the pet and value of the pet. But, to spend $10k on a 12 year old dog or something??
 
Ooph, I love my cat but $10k would be pretty steep. Honestly though, some of this stuff like bone marrow transplants seems a little crazy. It's one thing to put a person through the hell of cancer treatment because they at least can understand why they're suffering. All a cat or dog knows is "damnit, I constantly feel like shit." How much extra life do those treatments buy them anyways?

If it was a one time procedure that definitely cured a problem then I'd be willing to pay significantly more. I would not pay for radiation for a an incurable brain tumor though. Even in people who're getting much better medical care than any pet will ever get the prognosis for inoperable brain cancer is horrible.
 
I had put a max at $1000 up until it took $2000 of treatment to save my basset's life. Well, needless to say the max changed.
 
OILFIELDTRASH said:
Depends on likelyhood of success of surgery, if the animal will resume a nice quality of life, etc..
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This but maybe max $1500.


Then again I've only had my cat for a week so it's not like I'm that attached to her yet. I'd guess my opinion would change over the years.
 
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Depends on also how much you make (percentage of your income). I would pay about 2k but my sister spent 10k on a 10+ year old Jack Russell, but she makes a lot of money! 🙂
 
Depends on how much discretionary income someone has. If someone's a multi-millionaire, I wouldn't be surprised if they were willing to drop tens of thousands or more on an animal. Me personally? I don't have that much discretionary income... so less than $1,000.
 
Max maybe $1-2k depending on the pet's chances for full recovery. There was a crazy woman who I use to work with who spent $16k to fix the hip dysplasia in one of her dogs.
 
you really can't put a hard cap.

IF my puppy needed a treatment that was $500-900 then sure. IF my 9+ year dog needed same treatment then no.
 
depends on the age of the dog/pet and how much longer they have left, but I think i'd drop 2k-3k on her right now at the age of 4.
 
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Don't even want to think about it. Molly (the one on the left) is 12. I've had her for 11 years and I'd probably spend every last cent I had trying to make sure she is ok if I knew it would help.

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mb said:
3 months? Nice. I got 30 days of it... and if I call them they'll extend it to 45 days.
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We got some sort of special deal I believe. Our cat had a sponsor when we adopted him. Only had to pay half the normal fee, got some free supplies and extended insurance.
 
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