Most Vets will keep your dog if you can not pay the bill. The Vet will then find her and the puppies a home. Any money that he get's for them is absorbed by the bill......It's better then letting them all die.
Keeping her home is going to be to risky, and very unsafe for all of them, if the Vet said she definitely needs a C-section. -------Original Message------- From: carol lopez Date: 2/14/2011 11:13:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RE: [Chihuahuas] Ok I need some help with this breed emergancy My credit is shot but might have a chance threw my credit union I am going to give that a try On Feb 14, 2011 6:32 PM, "Joan Croft" <[email protected]> wrote: > My vet accepts CareCredit. My dentist accepts CareCredit. Go to > carecredit.com and see if your vet is listed as taking CareCredit. If you > put the bill on CareCredit you have a certain amount of time to pay it back > INTEREST FREE. Check into that.very important. > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Liz Bickel & Irv Weinberg > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 12:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Chihuahuas] Ok I need some help with this breed emergancy > > > > > > 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 > > >
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