Quote Originally Posted by jenn_librarian View Post
I'm really surprised that the vet would be so resistant to keeping an animal alive if their only problem will be the elimination and the owners are willing to manually express her to keep her healthy and happy.

Makes you wonder what he'd do if it were his pet.

Hoping for the best for Emma.
I think that maybe he's just not used to owners having this type of motivation; many pet owners wouldn't want to do it and would choose to euthanize instead, so maybe he's just had so many that want to give up, he's not even sure how to handle the cases where they DON'T want to give up.

Regardless, he is going to give them the treatment they want, since they are paying him for it, after all. But the way my MIL makes it sound is that he still is against manually expressing her.

I don't manually express her now; I believe my MIL goes up a few times a day and rubs her belly and it does it on its own, it isn't even too hard she says. She's still looking for diaper ideas though, as I said she tried some the other day but since Emma's spine is still broken and tail hasn't been amputated, she's obviously still in some pain, not to mention she would have to get used to wearing the diaper, NO animal would like that at first because they're not used to it. I'm sure the baby diapers will work fine, she will just have to get used to them after the amputation.

I agree they do need a second opinion, but this clinic is offering to work with them financially and that's really important to them, because these bills haven't been cheap for this girl!! Not many clinics in the St Louis area will work with lower-income families, most won't even accept post-dated checks, much less payments!