Your right its in san diego
On Feb 14, 2011 4:02 PM, "carol lopez" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Us davis is in sacurmento ca can't spell that word that lol
> On Feb 14, 2011 12:13 PM, "Liz Bickel & Irv Weinberg" <[email protected]
>
> wrote:
>> Although they aren't in LA, you might want to call the UC Veterinary
>> Medicine Center, San Diego and explain what is going on. You can
>> tell them about Daisy and ask if they will accept payment over time
>> to pay for her required C-section. In my experience, most
>> University, teaching, vet hospitals will do this. However, since San
>> Diego is a drive for you (providing they can work with you
>> financially), you probably will have to schedule a C-section for
>> before she goes into strong, active labor. Give The University Vet
>> hospital a call and discuss everything with them in detail. They
>> usually have a finance department that takes care of extended payments.
>>
>> http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ucvmc_sd/
>>
>> The other possibility is to talk to your own vet again about making
>> payments over time. If you've been a client for some time, he would
>> have to be very cold hearted to just let your Chihuahua
>> die. Especially since he knows in advance what the situation is.
>>
>> A third possibility is to put the cost of the surgery on a Credit
>> Card and pay it off over time (with interest of course). That's what
>> I do if my bills (at vets other than my regular one) exceed what I
>> have saved. I always try to keep at least $2000 set aside for vet
>> emergencies, but the way things are these days, even that can quickly
>> be depleted.
>>
>> Since you still have a few days to get things in order, there must be
>> some way that you can find to delay payment of a
>> huge-one-time-vet-bill and then gradually pay it off yourself over time.
>>
>> I find it sad that more & more vets are becoming more concerned about
>> immediate payment than they are about the welfare of the
>> animals. However, there are still options open for you to be able to
>> be able to pay for Daisy's C-section. Wish you have started to look
>> into this matter weeks ago when she first got bred. Then, there
>> would have been no doubt that something with someone could have been
> arranged.
>>
>> Liz
>>
