Sick Animal Panic - Fraud.

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(01-04-2024, 02:27 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Looking back, I sometimes wonder if it was worth spending that much.  The experience, along with the surgeries and ongoing treatments aged him greatly. I guess the reality is when you see your little friend suffering like that, sometimes you'll do whatever it takes to try to get him right again.

Wy wife is a lifelong cat herder/whisperer and is friends with a cashier at a nearby Kroger.  Said cashier happened to mention to my wife that there was a stray cat frequenting her neighborhood that appeared to have an eye issue.  She couldn't trap him on her own and asked my wife for assistance.  So my wife reports for duty and they mange to trap the cat, which I then take to our vet for an exam, shots, etc.  $600 later we're told that he has some sort of neurological disorder that's causing his eye issue, but he's not in pain and there's no risk for further complications.  

We already have three cats and because of their situation we can't bring him inside, so my wife decides to stash him at a local pet hotel to the tune of $19 per day.  He's there until next week when has an intake interview at a no-kill shelter, where he will be adopted at some point.  So all told, by the time we surrender him, we'll be out something in the neighborhood of $1k.  And all for a cat that isn't even ours.