People’s Experiences With Vets

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This tells of others experiences

Vets are now largely trained by big pharma and big pet food. Some do get out with a huge drop in income, to pursue more holistic and animal friendly ways.

Almost daily, people report real horror stories to me. Unfortunately I haven't kept them all. There is a real danger in using vets. I’m including some of the comments that people send me. This is to prepare you for what you may encounter, rather than to slander. If you’re prepared, you’re stronger.

Many sections already have told of others experiences.

A Cat With a Sore Tail

Anne came to me with her cat Cuddles, with a very sore tail. On examination, the base of the tail had the tell tail scabbing of a recent bite. Touching it elicited a swear and a threat to bite me. Obviously very painful!
Anne and her family had noticed that Cuddles had become uncharacteristically irritable about a week ago.
The local vet had advised amputation of the tail. Anne told me that the vet hadn’t even examined the cat the way I had.
An indoor/outdoor cat, with Anne and her family out at work most days, the incident of an altercation with another cat could easily have been missed.
A bite from a cat, with those sharp penetrating canines can be very painful. And a bite on the tail can be especially painful as the tail, like the spine, is rich in nerves.
Unsurprising that Cuddles was irritable!
I treated Cuddles for the bite, the slow healing and any soft tissue and nerve damage. Automatically, this homeopathic treatment cures infection, inflammation and pain.
Cuddles was back to normal in just a few days.

Joyce Writes

I'll tell you about one incident where I thought I needed emergency help fast. It was about 13 or 14 years ago, and actually involved Dorcha--a very young cat at the time. We were living in rural Pennsylvania, where our three cats roamed acres of farm and woodlands all day and night. Dorcha had been missing for a couple of days, and I was getting concerned. I walked around the area calling his name, and just as I was heading up the road to our house, I heard the tiniest squeak of a sound--it could have been a cat or a bird or something else. I looked at the area it came from, a swampy mess that undoubtedly was home to hundreds of ticks, did not see any sign of Dorcha, and continued home. About two hours later I heard a tiny squeak at the front door. I opened the door and there was Dorcha just outside the door. He looked up at me, his eyes widened, and he suddenly fell over on his side, and flipped back and forth on his back several times. Then he got up and entered the house, seemingly fine. But no, he then repeated the same thing:looked up at me, eyes widened, fell on his side and flipped back and forth before getting up. My husband was there too by then; neither of us had ever seen such behavior by a cat before. It was Sunday, so we couldn't take him to our vet, and so we took him to the emergency vet for our area. We got a very young vet (or maybe vet in training) who, as soon as he heard that Dorcha was behind on his rabies shot, told us it was probably rabies. We still refused the shot, and he warned us to keep a close look at Dorcha, because if he started doing anything unusual we would have to euthanize him and get rabies shots ourselves. Needless to say we were horrified, and came home in a state of shock. The next day we took Dorcha to our usual vet, an older man with years of experience and a tendency to avoid modern medicine when possible. We told him what had happened, and when we got to the rabies part he absolutely blew up muttering about the stupidity of modern vets. He told us it was clear that Dorcha had feline vestibular syndrome (vertigo), that it was not at all dangerous, and he might never have it again. The odd thing was that I had had vertigo recently, which is not contagious, and when Dorcha was flipping back and forth I thought that resembled the "Epley Maneuver", which is used for humans who have vertigo. I sure wish I'd known something about homeopathy then!

Ron Writes

I had emailed you a few yrs ago about an emergency I had with my 7yrd-old cat where he was foaming from mouth and having problem breathing unless his head was allowed to remain level to the floor and not elevated to where the foam would obstruct him being able to breath from either mouth or nose. I informed vet about the problem and they insisted on grasping the back of his neck and pulling his head elevated and I didn't think I had time to take him 6miles to another vet and within 5mins they ended up killing him and thought it wise to charge me $45 for their services.
I believed that he had been stung in mouth by a bee since he was always chasing them and thought they would inspect and apply treatment to resolve the swelling but she did neither and just started shooting him up with a diuretic lasix injection which she did 3xs before he died.

Beth Writes

Our 1-1/2 year old male cat was licking his penis raw and peeing blood. After a couple of vet visits and several very expensive prescriptions that did not work and created a whole other level of stress for both my cat and me, we finally found a homeopathic solution which was a fraction of the cost. ….We also completely changed the kitties' diet. Within 2 days you could see in his face and in his playfulness that he was feeling so much better. After weeks and weeks of very expensive very stressful prescription medications, these solutions actually worked! I tried to share the information with the vet who seem to really care about my cat but she was not interested at all and was upset because I stopped giving him the very very expensive prescription drugs and also refused to give him the prescription food that was loaded with all kinds of gluten and grains and just junk. I guess she didn't care about (him) as much as I thought because she was not interested at all in how and why he got better.

Helga Writes

My son's cat got into a fight with another cat. (Afterwards) he was not walking well and seemed to be in pain. This was on Sunday and my son took him to the emergency vet - $800. They could not find anything, but the cat was not better the next day. My son then took him to the regular vet - $300 who found out the spine was cracked above the tail and there was nothing that could be done. Poor kitty had to be put to sleep.
ED - Since when are cracked bones a case for killing?

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