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Apparently about $110,000, since who’ve not needed to start spending down our investments yet. The largest expenditure we are facing in the next 10 years will probably be replacing our two heat pump systems which I estimate will amount to about $30,000.
Is this correct, as in Twenty-one Thousand Dollars? I know that veterinary expenses have skyrocketed, but..
Not at all unusual. We spent approximately $20,000 for the last 2 years of our one dog's life. When a dog requires a speciality hospital, costs mount up fast. Friends were left with a $10,000 bill after their dog's week long fatal illness.
Not at all unusual. We spent approximately $20,000 for the last 2 years of our one dog's life. When a dog requires a speciality hospital, costs mount up fast. Friends were left with a $10,000 bill after their dog's week long fatal illness.
I just got an estimate on getting my 17 year old cat's teeth cleaned. We are on a waiting list. We have to pay for specialty anesthesiologist. Last time I had her teeth cleaned at that animal dental clinic in 2022 and she had three small teeth pulled I think it was $1,600. The new estimate is $4,000.
It's a difficult decision with her Stage 2 kidney disease she could potentially live a few more years. However, she often seems to be circling the drain (and rallies over and over).
I don't want her to be in pain with her teeth on top of everything else she is dealing with. We have her pain from arthritis mostly under control. We have to be careful with any meds due to the kidney disease and so it is a balance and rebalance and rebalance. I want her to get all her additional years as she is still enjoying food and birds and her brother and mother ....
Fear is this $4k dental is repeated again next year. I am so many thousands into my two current cats.
Vet fees have soared. I have insurance, but, you feel lucky when it actually pays off (it covers meds, but, not supplements and then there are the existing conditions such as bad teeth with my rescue cat being pegged as preexisting (and that's his entire issue, but, I keep the insurance for down the road - old age).
I'm not going overboard either as I put my Maine Coon down in 2017 when the Bloodwork and his behavior indicated he was not long for this world (it was obvious and one of the male vets stepped in and explained in great detail making the decision easier). Do not want them suffering unnecessarily.
Wilie, I wouldn’t want to put a 17 year old cat under anesthesia at that age. Chances are she will die before she gets a toothache.
The Vet showed me the progress of the resorption issues. Bunny should have been gone a few times and she hangs in there. If they don't need to take any teeth out it will be easier on her. She is a Snowshoe and they do live to 20. I do not want her alive and suffering to that extent and I would have to put her down (because I did not address the issue).
I doubt this specialist will even do the procedure if Bunny is too weak to survive it by the time we get there. I am also going to run all of this by my regular Vet (who we see Mar 23 and who will be going out on Maternity leave this summer). Between the dental specialist and the anesthesiologist they should make the right call; the dental specialist also practiced general Vet medicine before specializing (and she is no spring chicken - plenty of experience). She will go in with up to the minute bloodwork (at least up to the 7-14 days bloodwork).
I do see it as possibly the last shot of getting her dental squared away and comfortable.
Bunny is my comfort cat from my accident (I got her about a year later). Without her I likely would not have slept as well as I have for the last 17 years.
Pets, like humans, can have their greatest expenses in their last few days on Earth.
Unlike humans, you can end their suffering humanely when there's nothing else that can be done.
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