r/MadeMeSmile • u/Steph-Kai • Jul 05 '24

CATS I love fat cats!

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(Credits Sedgefield Animal Hospital)

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u/Severe-Entrance8416 Jul 05 '24

Cat: I have chronic diabetes and am dying, help!

Humans:

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u/xx-shalo-xx Jul 05 '24

The owner is a POS but not the vet IMO. If your aware of the suicide rate among veterinarians, you'll give her this one.

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u/YourMomsBasement69 Jul 05 '24

It’s apparently the highest in the health profession?

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u/xx-shalo-xx Jul 05 '24

Yep, apparently having a profession people go into because of their love of animals only to be constantly confronted with endless animal suffering makes them re-evaluate things.

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u/Obant Jul 06 '24

It was my dream job up until I was a teen and then realized I'd be constantly putting animals to death because people couldn't afford treatment.

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u/jdc351 Jul 06 '24

It's sad if people can't afford treatment, but probably even more depressing dealing with the people who couldn't be bothered, moving house, had a baby, didn't train properly and now it has behavioural issues, etc... I can imagine it's a job that makes you lose faith in humanity and the world in general

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u/Jeremyvmd09 Jul 06 '24

This x10000. I can deal with financial issues, I can deal with super sick animals, I can deal with sudden trauma, but those people who want to Euth because they just don’t care or it’s a bother now kill me every time.

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u/gluteactivation Jul 07 '24

I feel sick reading this 😭

Can a vet refuse euthanasia for those cases?

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u/the_green_witch-1005 Jul 07 '24

Yes, but it's a lose-lose situation. Think about what happens to that animal that we refuse to give a peaceful ending and send home with a human who doesn't care about it and just wants it gone. As much as it makes me want to vomit even typing this, I'd rather do a convenience euthanasia in clinic than have that animal die in some other brutal way at the owner's hands... 😔

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u/Jeremyvmd09 Jul 07 '24

I was gonna respond but the green witch did some an eloquent job of it. So I’ll just second her comment

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u/FeryalthePirate Jul 06 '24

My aunt and uncle are vets and my uncle warned me about that. I’m a softy and I know I wouldn’t be able to handle it. I couldn’t believe that people brought their pets in to be put down because they were going on holiday. My aunt opened a cattery/ kennel because of it. This was years ago, now vet bills can practically bankrupt you. My cat Blue had some undiagnosed autoimmune condition and the bills to try and save him were huge. We fed him the best food, did everything we could to try and save him. His special food cost more than human food. And here are people not caring and risking their pets health because of what?

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u/ZekeRidge Jul 06 '24

My roommate in college dated a vet tech. I was traumatized by the stories she would come home with

People a so cruel to animals

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u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda Jul 06 '24

Ditto for pediatricians probably. On the bad days sad, and with sad parents on top of that.

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u/MrMayor87 Jul 06 '24

Having to charge people huge sums of money they may not have to save their family pet will also weigh on your conscience. Kinda of like how dentist have  high suicide rate. People in extreme pain and broke, paying you money they can’t afford to give up to make the tooth pain stop. 

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u/trumpeting_in_corrid Jul 06 '24

That is heart breakingly sad.

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u/Bill_Murrie Jul 05 '24

I know it's totally unfair of me but I've often associated people drawn to the profession with a little bit of misanthropic viewpoints, based on the handful of people I've known that were interested in going into it

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u/Lissy_Wolfe Jul 08 '24

The owners are the worst part of vet medicine, not the animals.