Dunno if this is allowed but, if anyone could help me with my cat, that’d be wonderful.
Here’s a link to my gofundme: www.gofundme.com/spkfgk
Thank you for your time.
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Thank you for your donation, @justinator ;v; Much appreciated
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Sell some cards!
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I HAVE been @_@; but there’s only so much I have that I can sell.
There’s some on my Ebay if you wanna help that way, by all means.
Ohhhh, hope they sell 
Good luck!
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Today they had their surgery - it has come to $1100 since Knight’s teeth are being reabsorbed by her body. Much higher than the original estimate.
I’m gonna put up more items on my ebay, but any donations towards it would be wonderful.
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I wish I could get off that cheap. Spent over $1600 last year, $500 this year and more to come.
Yes, I know I’m foolish. Tell me something I don’t know.
I don’t think it’s foolish to care for a pet.
Anyway, end bill was $1527.15. I paid $790 today so I’m just hoping to get a hand with the rest.
So many of my younger years, even with little kids in the house, I had to go without pets because of the expense and the extra responsibility:(
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Wise and responsible choice. Too many people don’t make that same choice and the pets suffer for it.
In general, if you have pet, you should keep in mind veterinary care costs, otherwise don’t take a pet if you can’t pay those costs when he needs it. So I think it’s very good what you do.
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The problem with this mindset is that circumstances change.
I have a bank account where I deposit money every fortnight for future vetenary costs. This particular surgery simply exceeded the amount that I was both quoted and the amount I had stored for future expenses.
I take them to the vet yearly for checkups. Knight’s teeth were perfectly fine a year ago, and have degraded extremely fast. NOTHING could’ve prepared me for this.
That is why I am running a donation drive to get a hand with this unexpected bill. It is no different than, say, if a tree fell on your house and your insurance bill was sudden and ridiculous. Things happen.
There are many pet medical policy’s that cover appx 3,000.00usd dental or 100% of accident related pet dental expenses. I’ve paid yearly but the monthly for such a policy is only 20.00 or so for an indoor pet. (30-40 for outdoor).
It’s a small amount to pay for the peace of mind that your pet will always be taken care of.
This won’t help your current situation but future wise it will.
Skinst, link me to your ebay page and i will see if i can help or pm me any secrets/fa english cards from flashfire on OR japanese promos/cp4/best xy cards you have for sale. … i myself am catching up on bills inc. a nightmare of a vet bill w my late cat Akamaru. His teeth were bad, then 3 months later he had sudden heart attack, over the course of 1 weekend passed away. I live in the USA and got care credit (like a credit card but for vet/medical only). The final bill was $2300.00 i am still paying it off and have another year or two before its fully paid off. But it was necessary.
I actually took out vet insurance a while back, but, the first time I attempted to claim they didn’t cover it. They ALSO required you to actually have the money in your bank account before they paid it back, so it didn’t really help at all.
So I got kind of burned a few times :x So I decided it’d be better to just pay it. It sucks but that’s Australia for you v_v;
My ebay store is in my signature 
Thank you. I have CP3 and CP5 (sadly not CP4 sorry ;
but yeah. Best of luck with your own bill there. :c Sorry to hear about your cat.
I am surprised you would vouch for pet insurance @KingPokemon. Everything I have read about it pretty much sums it up as a scam/ripoff. I have read of all the issues getting things covered and getting payments from it. Surely it works out for a few people here and there, but obviously insurance companies offer it because they are profitable in doing so. Over your life you will have several pets and I would be shocked if 95% of owners didn’t end up better off going with no insurance on any of them vs. insuring them all. Same goes for electronics, appliances, cell phones and any other items you should be able to handle an expense for out of pocket. Insurance is best reserved for where legally required, (loaned car or house, liability on vehicle, medical). One thing these all have in common are that one claim can cause bankruptcy and/or be life altering amounts of debt.
It is a bit unpleasant to think about, but every pet owner should have a number in mind. Whatever you could/would be able to spend to save that pet (or provide it required medical/dental care) you should always have set aside as a part of your emergency fund. It sounds harsh to think that way, but to take it an extreme for demonstration… Obviously no normal person is going to spend $50,000 to perform a risky operation on a cat to save it’s life given the vet saying it has a 10% chance to make it through. Now down from there everyone can set their own level and obviously it would be case by case. I don’t have a firm number myself, but I have 2 cats and 1 dog. I have enough in the bank that anything they can possibly get themselves into I would be able to cover that would be reasonable. I also have enough if a water heater goes, car accident, health keeping me away from work for a few months etc. and everyone should. If I was faced with a potential bill from them requiring me to completely drain out my emergency fund pushing me into any debt, it is sad to say I would just have to move on. There are 1,000,000+ healthy pets every year put down in shelters in the USA and I would just have to save one more of those. Sad thing is, my number would probably approach 5 figures, and I have seen otherwise healthy, young pets put down because their sh*tbag owners couldn’t come up with $500 to save their lives.
@skinst it is good to see that you aren’t falling into the camp of owners who would put a pet down over a small expense, but honestly this is exactly what an emergency fund is for. “Things happen”, yes that is why we must plan for them and be prepared.
All insurance (auto, life, medical, home owners/rental etc) is an overall losing proposition. After all, shareholders like us in insurance companies need a profitable return. For many of us our 401ks or retirement income depends on it.
I would think cat insurance would work for people who can’t afford to pay a bill for an unexpected episode. I mean what’s better? Have the animal go untreated and have to be put down because of that lack of treatment cause you don’t have the funds or ante up monthly for a policy to prevent that from happening?
Again, you can’t plan for every single thing. As I said before, I do set aside money every fortnight for future vet bills. The amount was simply something I could not have foreseen, the vet could not have foreseen, and in general could not have prepared for.
Assuming that one can plan for every single thing comes across as a bit arrogant, tbh 
Anyway, update: Knight is doing very well but isn’t eating too much. Hoping to change that.
I work in pet care and it definitely is pretty unpredictable. There was a case a week or two ago where I had to do an emergency transport job because someone’s dog tried digging under their colour bond shed and sliced it’s nose up. Ended up costing the owner $1400 in vet bills for the night.
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