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I recently had to choose between these two options: 1. Removal of splinter from pet cat's eyeball: $1,650 2. Removal of cat's eyeball: $1,400 Blew out my
by BLKNSLVR 6y ago
I recently had to choose between these two options:
1. Removal of splinter from pet cat's eyeball: $1,650
2. Removal of cat's eyeball: $1,400
Blew out my pet budget for a long while. I have the photo that the vet ophthalmologist took - they were cool enough to send it to us.
- dkersten 6y agoOh wow. I’m sorry for you and your cat, that seriously sucks.
- BLKNSLVR 6y agoDespite adding a month to the mortgage, it was a good news story. Cat full recovered within a day or two, and the joy my kids get from this gosh darn cat makes it worth the expense. (just as long as it doesn't make a habit of getting eyeball splinters - freaking gross). Very thankful to have the means that enable a spur-of-the-moment $1,650 expense not affecting too much of the future. I'll have to write the story of this cat one day.
- dkersten 6y agoGood to hear that everything worked out ok!
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoApologies if it's insensitive, but I'm curious what the financial cost of "putting cat down and acquiring new cat" would be; mere intellectual curiosity.
- BLKNSLVR 6y ago$50 to get a vet to put a cat down. And roughly the same amount to get a desexed, flea-treated moggy from a shelter.