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Originally Posted by Mr. Mistoffelees
Please explain here.
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The cat was found on Sunday morning curled up in the bottom of the corner of a closet and unwilling to move. Not even for food. He'd hiss whenever we neared. After finally being coaxed out, he was very slow moving, had half-open eyes, and was drooling.
Because it was Sunday, only an emergency vet was open. We took him in and the diagnosis was that he has a completely blocked urethra. The fix included flushing the blockage out, inserting a catheter so he could piss (this is why he was fucked up...he had a lot of piss inside of him), and keeping him overnight. Being an emergency vet, they charged up the asshole for this ($1400 in total). They wanted to keep him even longer, but we declined and instead took him to a regular vet for the next day to keep an eye on him + remote the catheter. This vet is a friend of Tits' mother and, as such, seemed to only charge for materials, just over $100 for a couple of days.
All in all, the price at the emergency place were certainly ridiculous, but they sort of have you by the balls when you walk in. In the end, he's middle-aged and this issue isn't one that should recur (so long as he's on a new diet, which doesn't cost much if any more than his old diet), thus the justification for spending $1500. That, and the price was incremental. It was $100 to walk in the place, then another $500 for them to figure out what's wrong, then another $500 to fix, and then $2-300 of random shit. Again, by the balls.