@snowberry, or anyone else… I’m not at all against alternative medicine, it just depends what is wrong with the animal. Some things cannot be fixed with alternative medicine. I also took my cat to a vet, he had a fibrosarcoma and the vet told me it would be about $1200 dollars for the surgery and treatment and also that there wasn’t much hope. That particular cancer kills between 50 and 80 percent of the cats that get it. The only option was surgery and I went for it. No biopsy, against the advice of my vet, just get it out, as soon as possible. I questioned whether or not my vet was capable of doing the surgery, how many she had done, if she really knew what she was doing; she got kind of bent out of shape about that but in the end admitted that maybe it was beyond her abilities so I found a oncological veterinary surgeon who came highly recommended and had him do it.
This was my sweet boy Casper
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You think I didn’t love that guy? I sure as hell did.
Don’t even get me on the subject of Bugsy, he was my baby.
He had the surgery at 8 and died, at the age of 21, curled up in the crook of my elbow, while I slept one night. He lived that long because I stood up to one vet and trusted another. It is a matter of doing both, not letting one’s preconceptions and ideologies interfere with what is best for the animal. Not letting one’s attachment to standard treatment or alternative treatement, one way or the other, get in the way of what is best for your animal. Alternative treatments are a good idea in some circumstances and a very bad idea in other circumstances.
I don’t mean to attack anyone or anybody’s beliefs in what kind of medicine in good or bad but you are responsible for your animal.
Again, this is a subject I can tend to get little worked up about and I don’t mean for it to be personal in any way. I am just arguing my position with a little more enthusiasm than may be warranted. Please forgive.