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Pet lovers/owners
Just to make you all aware that we have unfortunately had to have our long term cat put to rest but although it was the very last thing we both wanted to do it's not as simple as you may think.
To soften the blow for me the wife and our pet we contacted our local vet to try and arrange this to be done at our home so the cat would be at least be more comfortable and relaxed which was explained to the vets and we were willing to pay additional costs for this service.
The vets answer was no they did not have enough staff to cover this and the first appointment they had at the vets was Tuesday (over 4 days away) the importance of the euthanasia was stressed to them over and over! On hitting this brick wall with our local vet whom we were registered with we rang around surrounding areas in the hope that some vet could or would do the humane thing but unless you are registered with them they cannot help you and they are not taking on any more as they also had a shortage of vets, the last couple of days has been horrendous having to ring around trying to find a helpful vet to put our much loved poorly cat to sleep it was like trying to find a dentist or a doctors surgery to treat us!!!
Surely these highly skilled and well paid vets go into this profession as animals lovers that should pull out all of the stops to be supportive to the pet owners and humane when really necessary???
We are both livid still with our local vets where our pet has been registered for years and treated for a good part of this year.
This is not a rant but a warning to pet lovers/owners that vets are really not there for you or your pet in your hour of need, in fact a 10 minute out of hours appointment would have been suffice!!!!
