Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Anything for Kitty: Would You
Spend Thousands of Dollars to
Keep Your Sick Pet Alive?
- The Situation
- A vet detected a terminal heart condition in
the cat (Kitty).
- Her owner just to promise that the cat will live until his
30th birthday.
- The cat only have 2 years half of live
- The procedure: twice a day pills, the
bimonthly visits to the veterinary cardiologist.
- The Dilemmna
- Just because we can extend a life, should we?
- As animals became increasingly viewed as
members of the family, the reluctance to
euthanize began to enter veterinary medicine.
- Many owners are willing to spend significantly on veterinary
care: In a 2010 survey of more than 1,000 pet owners, 32 percent
said they’d be somewhat to very likely to spend $5,000 on a
single treatment.
- The Treatment
- Initially for Kitty, a chest tap would buy her
several months of easier breathing
- The chest taps increased in frequency—once,
Kitty needed three in a month
- Yet even as the taps went up to every other month
- The vet said: it was not fair to the animal. The animal
doesn’t know anything about the last three months.
- The Decision
- The vet said that when the animal gets very sick,
particularly with a terminal disease, The owner should
consult the list for your own need, are not prolonging
the animal's suffering
- Kitty List: watching the street from the window, jumping on us
when we went to bed, to sleep perched on our backs or sides;
and wolfing down the food as soon as I dumped it in her bowl
- In the last week, Kitty collapsed and her
owner go to the emergency vet.
- Her owners decided let her go
- The Conclusion
- Before intervening in the life of a living being, we must
stop and identify if it will be very painful and will be worth
going through all this.