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.No one has the right to force you to spay or neuter your dog. I have had spayed dogs and unfixed males....no big deal. They are dogs....Recently my eldest daughter took her old mutt to the vet to get a growth removed from the side of his leg...It was a plumb size growth held on by a tiny strand of flesh.....$900.00.............I hate vets...It took him 5 minutes and another 5 minutes to stitch up the incision. YEP - the smiling vets are the worst...
No big deal when our shelters are killing thousands of dogs and cats across this country every year????
No big deal when dogs run in packs and kill and maim children????
No big deal when our tax dollars go to run these shelters and pay for vet services for the ones they try to save??????????????
No big deal when unvaccinated animals pose serious health risks to our communities????????
I guess I'm just weird. I love my pets but they are not children (I have a couple of those as well) and I wouldn't give my life for them and would never expect anyone to do anything for them at no cost because I couldn't afford it. If I can't afford them I don't have them...see what I did there? I waited years after moving out of my parents house to get a pet. I waited until I had bought a house of my own (hence no problems with "mean landlords who hate animals"), and was financially secure before I even CONSIDERED taking on a pet. Once I put over $3000 worth of vet bills on a CC and spent years paying it off because I chose to take some extraordinary measures with a pet, but didn't berate the vets themselves for not doing it for free. What a load of BS THAT is. I make the decisions, I choose what I can and can not do financially. Whatever that means for my pet it's all on me. And whatever happens to your pet is all on YOU.\
I waited a little longer to have kids, for the very same reasons. I'm annoyed more people don't.
If you can't afford to fix your pet you shouldn't have one BUT that said- there are so many ways to find free and low cost neuter and spay. Google around in your area. Unfixed dogs are problems for themselves and they create too many puppies and we are killing dogs in shelters by the thousands hourly
I read the article which stated that the family offered to pay the vet $3.50 a week to cover services and the vet refused. Strangely enough the vet was more willing to incur the cost of temporarily housing and putting down the dog. I wonder why vets can't be as flexible about payment as human doctors? Some payment is better than nothing. Nearly every people hospital has some program for the indigent.
Funny how "care" is so subjective.
If you do the math, it would take the family 3.3 years to pay off the cheaper surgery of amputation. This family clearly could not provide adequate care for this poor dog.
If they can't afford to have the dog spayed/neutered, how on earth are they going to CARE for it?<>
here;s your clue:
The cited link can be followed to the source of the article, which is in New Zealand. "Fixed" down there is not being used as a euphemism for "castrated" in this case it means "repaired", as in broken leg fixed after dog was run over. Sheesh.
"Read for content"
If you can't afford to fix your pet you shouldn't have one<M>
The stupid is strong in this thread.
Maybe it's a language problem. In New Zealand "Fixed" means "Repaired" as in "The Vet eventually fixed the dog's broken leg."
I do, however, agree that people who own pets should be responsible for their proper medical care, which may include the cost of sterilization.
What a shame! I didn't see a timeframe in the article, but it looks like this poor dogs leg had been shattered a couple days before any surgery happened. And the 19yo boy, well, it looks like he really loved this dog, just didn't have the money to pay for an extraneous surgery. Definitely a rough patch for him and the dog, but so glad the public rallied around them...
Since this thread has been resurrected, I'll post this for future reference.
Many rescues will help with vet costs for an owner. Some have an outreach program that does exactly that. The rescue I volunteer with has paid for amputation surgery. Other rescues will take a dog into their program that needs medical help, get the dog treated and adopt it out. Of course in this case the owners have to surrender the dog to the rescue. Usually rescues prefer the dog stay with the owner but if it's not being cared for appropriately or the owners won't be able to provide the appropriate aftercare, they will ask that the pet be surrendered to them before helping.
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neuter and spay should be free
