Finding a Vet (San Antonio, Anton: moving, friendly, drive)

[MichelleSG]

Hill Country Vet is about 2 miles from me. I stopped in there once to ask about something and it seemed very clean and modern, I think the building is pretty new. I don't know any one who goes there though.

Millie, my boxers are dumb as bricks but sweet as pie, I wouldn't have it any other way! If my girl hadn't been a desperate stray single mom I doubt she would have figured out how to hunt.

[Gennaver]

Originally Posted by MichelleSG

Gennaver the best recommendation I have for you is to call up vet's offices and ask if the techs or receptionists there do fostering. Unfortunately with such a high military population here pets get dumped here in volume. I talked to the intake coordinator at the shelter and she gets around 200 dogs a day and said they got even more cats in. If you look on Craig's List there are tons of new 'free to good home, being deployed' everyday. It's very common in military towns, the same problem existed in San Diego (where I moved from). ... Sorry I can't be of more help, good luck!

This is what I've heard on a cat forum too, very, very sad.

My three are adults and already rescue and two are purebred that came with front declaw. I would be horrified if they were dumped or brought to a kennel.

I would rather relinquish them to the rescue site that I adopted them from, (as I signed agreement to in case I can not keep them), than to dump them.

I only am seeking a temporary foster who will not dump my cats and who will return them to me when I return.

The horror stories of abandonment break my heart. I've been a part of cat transports for a rescue agency and hope to continue to foster or transport once I complete my service. Meanwhile I am trying to find a "consistant" foster for my situation. Ideally it will be a person who has no other fosters, (as three is a large crew).

I did contact the rescue site where I adopted them from for their advice and was told that fostering through a rescue site would be far more traumatizing to them than to find a person who will watch them, (if I plan on keeping them, which I do).

Hmmm, from what you tell me, looks like I might have to abandon my three lovelies right here right now here in Chicago rather than keep them for the rest of their lives like I was hoping.

Thing is, people can manage to be in the military with children...my cats ARE my only family.

They've been so special to me and they deserve so much goodness and have had such rough lives in the past, I hate to cause them more trouble...
Sad,
Gen

[AustinTraveler]

If you don't already know, City-Data has a great Pet Forum here that I think you'd all love participating in. Check it out:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/pets/

By the way, CATS RULE.

[MichelleSG]

Sadly some people can't manage children and the military. I distinctly remember an article in the San Diego Union Tribune about a marine couple who had a baby and were both stationed at Camp Pendleton. The husband was deployed to Iraq and then the wife. Neither had any family and the Marine Corps told them their child was not the Marine Corps problem and they had to do something with 'it'. The mother went to the San Diego Union Tribune and did that interview as a last ditch effort. They would not give her an Honorable Discharge so that she could stay in the US and raise their child.
So no, not all people can manage a career in the military and a baby. Military life is very had and comes with a lot of sacrifice, not just for the service member but their family too.

[millie61]

Originally Posted by MichelleSG

Sadly some people can't manage children and the military. I distinctly remember an article in the San Diego Union Tribune about a marine couple who had a baby and were both stationed at Camp Pendleton. The husband was deployed to Iraq and then the wife. Neither had any family and the Marine Corps told them their child was not the Marine Corps problem and they had to do something with 'it'. The mother went to the San Diego Union Tribune and did that interview as a last ditch effort. They would not give her an Honorable Discharge so that she could stay in the US and raise their child.
So no, not all people can manage a career in the military and a baby. Military life is very had and comes with a lot of sacrifice, not just for the service member but their family too.

Spending a year alone while your husband is deployed having to deal with everything and worry about if he is going to come back is not easy. People think that the family left behind is helped by the military !!! now that is a joke.

[Gennaver]

Originally Posted by MichelleSG

Sadly some people can't manage children and the military. I distinctly remember an article in the San Diego Union Tribune about a marine couple who had a baby and were both stationed at Camp Pendleton. The husband was deployed to Iraq and then the wife. Neither had any family and the Marine Corps told them their child was not the Marine Corps problem and they had to do something with 'it'. The mother went to the San Diego Union Tribune and did that interview as a last ditch effort. They would not give her an Honorable Discharge so that she could stay in the US and raise their child.
So no, not all people can manage a career in the military and a baby. Military life is very had and comes with a lot of sacrifice, not just for the service member but their family too.

Oh dear,

That is tragically sad that not one person in their social support could step forward to create a family care plan for them while deployed.

So sad that some people are really alone like that. Pity that it couldn't work out for that young family.

In my own situation my class cohort is 22 people and three of them have agreed to help if things become crisis timeline. Bottom line with my crew is that the agency I adopted them from and also another specialty cat group as well as a rescue transport system are in place but, I desperately do not want to use up their already overtaxed resources.

There is a list of volunteers signed up through "Operation Noble Foster" who have agreed to be temporary fosters for Military personnel who are deployed. However, the Military member must actively seek to find the foster and make arrangements, this is not an "on your doorstep as you are leaving" type of thing.

It is sad for the current rescue system that more poeple do not know about this to search for a foster or to be a foster.

Wishing for the best and trying to plan for the best outcome.

Appreciatively,
Gen

[AustinTraveler]

Please get back on topic:

Finding a Vet.

Thanks,

AT

[googie2525]

I've taken my cat to Dr. Radicke over at the Lincoln Hights Animal Hospital for the past 8 years (Basse and Broadway). He's a very nice guy, BUT the place is always very busy and usually packed, so you're not going to get an hour examination. He does genuinly care for the animals though.

Lincoln Heights Animal Hospital

[Gennaver]

Originally Posted by AustinTraveler

Please get back on topic:

Finding a Vet.

Thanks,

AT

Oh,
Thread drift, should I delete?
Gen

[MichelleSG]

Sorry about that AT!