Our 17 year old cat has been on antibiotics for two weeks, he is losing 14% of his body weight per week and is down to 5.5 lbs. We have explained that we wish only to keep him comfortable at this point because he is clearly suffering. The Dr. ran tests and informed my husband that he has hyperthyroid. After almost $400.00 home he came with medications that I found out this morning will take weeks to work. My husband & I could not continue to watch him suffer and had him euthanized today. When I tried to find out why it wasn’t explained to my husband yesterday how long the treatment would take, since the cat is clearly starving to death and clearly suffering and can’t afford to lose weight for another two weeks while we wait for the meds to kick in I was told that they are in the business of treating animals not killing them. I asked them to cover the cost of the euthanasia since we would have had him euthanized yesterday had we been given all of the information then. They refused.
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