Why don't animals have emergency rooms?

• chaolin wrote on 2011-09-22 23:52

  Quote from Hiccup;596145:

  I always wondered about why there were none...... would make good money.

  
  
  Only if there's sufficient demand and the population makes enough money to pay for such an expense. Sadly, this is considered to be a luxury in any country...
• Cucurbita wrote on 2011-09-23 01:39
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  Cynic, I hope your pet is okay!
  
  I've never had a pet myself, but I have strong love for my future pet. Kinda like how a dad love his unborn child in the womb.
  
  Err, something like that.
  
  I hate people who talk about pets as if they have less value than humans. Economically speaking, its true, but they're sentient beings capable of emotions and thought, and most importantly, they're family.
  
  People (like my parents) don't really understand this. Thinking of pets as a far lower being.
  
  But its my understanding that there are emergency treatment facilities for animals too. Probably just not as frequent as ones for humans. If you think about government funding there's not much you can really do about it.
• TA wrote on 2011-09-23 02:04
  They do have them here.
• Cynic wrote on 2011-09-23 07:23
  Even if we had one nearby (the nearest was about 40 minutes away) and had the money, I don't think it would have mattered at that point. Kurt couldn't even eat anymore, let alone walk by the end of the night. His organs had been in overdrive for the past some days and were failing. Animals don't have the kind of care available that we have-- there's no defib units or organs transplants, which I imagine we still would have wanted, even if it put us in major debt.
  
  It's my fault for not thinking he was really doing bad early off; he had been sick for awhile. I only noticed him being a literal walking skeleton 2-3 days prior.
  So.. at the immediate time, there was nothing we could have done. It was just a matter of waiting until he passed away.
• TA wrote on 2011-09-23 07:57

  Quote from Cynic;596325:

  Even if we had one nearby (the nearest was about 40 minutes away) and had the money, I don't think it would have mattered at that point. Kurt couldn't even eat anymore, let alone walk by the end of the night. His organs had been in overdrive for the past some days and were failing. Animals don't have the kind of care available that we have-- there's no defib units or organs transplants, which I imagine we still would have wanted, even if it put us in major debt.
  
  It's my fault for not thinking he was really doing bad early off; he had been sick for awhile. I only noticed him being a literal walking skeleton 2-3 days prior.
  So.. at the immediate time, there was nothing we could have done. It was just a matter of waiting until he passed away.

  
  
  You're wrong Cynic. There's much better animal care than you think.
  
  I had one dog with liver problems and you probably could have bought a small house with the money I invested in him to give him a regular life (it of course isn't about the money, it's to say I would have done anything for them)... he was doing good. But both of my dogs (that were like my precious babies) were murdered x-mas of '07 by some bastard that poisoned them with strychnine. Meatballs with green pellets sprinkled on them laying in the backyard near the dog bowls...
  
  People are horrible. I was on a vacation at the time and they were left at my boyfriend's mother's... she was only gone 3 hours and when she came back they were dead in her backyard. Ugh...
  
  I didn't even need to dredge all of that back up.
  
  All I'm saying is.... there is good animal care out there. There are vets that will come at all hours of the night only given a moment's notice, and they are skilled professionals that truly care about animals. There are defib units and there are organ transplants. There are a lot of things you don't know about. I know that first hand. You can't just go around being angry at the world because something bad happened. Don't take out your frustration on the world. There really are good vets out there...
• Cynic wrote on 2011-09-23 08:16
  I called and asked the other day to see if there was anything that could have been done. We have no such place with that kind of care over here.
  
  For cats and dogs? Yes, there probably are things like that. But not for Rats, and certainly not anywhere in this area.
• TA wrote on 2011-09-23 08:37
  Well, they're... rats. I mean, I don't wanna sound mean, but obviously there will be support for more mainstream pets more widely available in more areas.
  
  But considering how most scientific research is done on mice and rats, I imagine there is probably quite a lot of treatments for them, if you can find the right people. Cause there's certainly organ transplants for rats.
  
  You probably would have had to of flown the little guy somewhere to have it done though, if it couldn't be done locally. Probably not a lot of Vets are going to be specialized in non-mainstream animals, but I know there's several exotic animal vets around here. Those guys are usually more experienced with less common things, like even if you had a platypus or something.
  
  Did you ever find out what it actually was though? I think if it were me, I'd still want an autopsy done so I could find out why it happened, and possibly prevent the others from becoming ill as well if it's something infectious or something you need to take precautions against with your others (shots, cleaning, whatever, depending on what it may be).
• Cynic wrote on 2011-09-23 09:12
  I wasn't trying to blame the world, by the way. Probably should have mentioned that in the prior post. If I had been smart enough to figure it out at-least a week, more likely 2 weeks before, then it may have been my areas fault for not having the proper tools to handle such situations. But it's purely my fault right now, since there was nothing any Vets could have done within the time I finally figured it out and now.
  
  We buried him the other day, so no. I really can't imagine it being anything but a tape worm, and I'd prefer having his body as it is right now. It wouldn't change the fact that I screwed up and he's dead, so yeah. I think it's nicer for him right now being buried with his favorite hut in the back yard.