Maybe granmother can help or the owners of the male yorkie --- On Mon, 2/14/11, carol lopez <[email protected]> wrote:
From: carol lopez <[email protected]> Subject: Re: RE: [Chihuahuas] Ok I need some help with this breed emergancy To: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 8:04 PM 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 > > >
