Urgent! I Need Help!

[lv4dogs]

I hope you're not scared away or just a troll or whatever. I'd really like some updates on him. I really am sorry I can't be of more help but he really does need to see a vet.

Maybe your vet can work out a payment plan? Sometimes people donate money to the vets and it is put into a fund and is used to help out people in need. Maybe your vet has something like that.
Or a local humane society may be able to help?
A credit card?
Something.
Anything.

[Jessika]

Get him to the vet immediately. Even if you can't afford it, most vets WILL NOT turn away a pet in need of medical care especially in an emergency situation such as yours and most will be MORE than willing to either work out a payment plan or take a post-dated check. If it smells that's a good indicator that infection has already set in. DO NOT let your dog suffer just because you don't have the funds for medical attention!

Thsi is the result of not properly adjusting the collar to compensate for a puppy's growth!!! It's such a shame!! Please tell me also that you DO NOT use a choke collar as an every day collar right??

[angelfaerie19]

First off I want to thank all of you for your help with this. When you are poor it makes things harder than ever. I finally got in touch with the vet and they told me some things I can do with home products until I get the money to take him. In reguards to the ******* who said my dog should be taken away, you know nothing of my family and my pets. We have had animals ever since I was a little girl. I am 19 now and no one in this family has ever abused animals. And, just to let you know, we have bought him MANY new collars since he was a puppy. So lets just keep those kinds of comments to yourself.

[lv4dogs]

Well good luck with him. Please keep us updated.

Did you check with any of the things I mentioned above that may help?

[angelfaerie19]

Yes, when I called the vets I asked them about those kinds of things and they said yhad nothing. And when I told them that we had no money they said that there was nothing they could do unless we had money. There are no payment plans, blah blah blah. What do you expect though? I live in Tennessee. Now I don't know what I am going to do. I don't want this to kill my dog. I've had him since I was 11. I don't want to lose him now because of some ********* vets that don't give a ****.

[lv4dogs]

What did the vet tell you to do?

I know about idiotic vets, In a way you can't blame them they do get screwed alot (lots of people don't pay them back I used to work at one) but then again they shouldn't turn down an animal in dire need. Its a tough call on their part.

[angelfaerie19]

I know that it is a tough call, but we have taken our animals to them for the past 2 years and always paid. Yet they won't let us bring Jax in and work out a payment plan. It just isn't right.

[Majestic]

You might want to call other vets and see if they can take your dog in. Also, you may want to stop by their office and ask instead - bring all records of your dog being taken care of by your current vet.

There're always some vets out there who wants to help and/or get more 'patients'

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I know that it is a tough call, but we have taken our animals to them for the past 2 years and always paid. Yet they won't let us bring Jax in and work out a payment plan. It just isn't right.

You'd think the vet would take this into account and put Jax's welfare before anything else!

[Vela]

First off I want to thank all of you for your help with this. When you are poor it makes things harder than ever. I finally got in touch with the vet and they told me some things I can do with home products until I get the money to take him. In reguards to the ******* who said my dog should be taken away, you know nothing of my family and my pets. We have had animals ever since I was a little girl. I am 19 now and no one in this family has ever abused animals. And, just to let you know, we have bought him MANY new collars since he was a puppy. So lets just keep those kinds of comments to yourself.

You can't ask for sympathy with one side and call people *******out the other. First off your dog never shoud have had a collar on so tight as to cut his neck, if you are 19 you should have paid attention to that. Secondly, if he DID get cuts, you should have taken care of it even by cleaning and taking off his collar BEFORE it got to be an infected oozing mess. Being poor is no excuse not to adjust his collar or clean out his wounds once they happened. That does not happen overnight, period. Just because you have had pets your whole life does not mean they get proper care. If you are 19 you are pefectly old enough to be repsonsible for this situation and calling people ******** because you didn't properly care for your dog in this instance is not the best way to get help. I hope your dog gets better and you are able to help him. I truly feel for your situation and lack of money. Try contacting the local SPCA and seeing if they can help you. You may have to surrender him but it's better than him dying from infection. Good luck.

[dab_20]

when it is a life or death emergency, most vets will take your dog in and help him. they will later work out a money plan with you. good luck, and i hope everything will be ok!

EDIT** glad to hear he is doing better!!

[angelfaerie19]

Just another update for all of you. For the past two days I have been cleaning his neck and putting the antibiotic on it. Since then the smell has gone away, he doesn't scratch anymore, the fever is gone, and it is almost completely scabbed over. I just want to thank all of you for helping me through this.

[lv4dogs]

Glad to hear he's doing better. I hope you get him to the vet though. If it was bad enough to cause a bad stench there is an infection there. Even though it may appear that he's getting better and the smell is gone the infection can still be there it can travel. It can harbor in him (like in the bloodstream & the like) which can be very difficult to treat later on. It's best to pay the exam fee (about $20-$40) and some antibiotics (about $10-$25).

[dab_20]

I am glad he is feeling a bit better. Lv4dogs is right, the infection will get worse if you don't get it professionally treated. I would still try and look for vets that will work out a money plan with you. Good Luck.

[Sampson-my guardian angel]

well said Vela!