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My eejit dog, earlier today apparently. I already miss him, and it’s only been a week.

Went to the vets today for my dogs yearly booster. Turns out he has cataracts.

Anyone know of a way to get help to pay for it? I have insurance but it covers £1000. This is going to cost to get it sorted the minimum of £4,500 and I can't afford anywhere near that money.

Hexx wrote:I couldn't find the pet thread because "Pet" doesn't return "Pets". Who built that? Bloody hell. So from the Cat thread.

Use wildcards to do stuff like that, to get the pets thread from the word “pet” you would search for “pet*” as it means the word pet followed by anything.

Let the dog out in the garden last night to do her stuff, thought like she had been out there for a long time and so went to check on things and found her out on the lawn ripping in to the carcass of some bloody great pigeon that she had obviously caught!

Had to pull her off it and dispose of the body.

Looked after my neighbour's non-toilet-trained 13 week old basenji last night for a couple of hours. Thought we might be able to ride out such a short time with minimal issues, but within 10 minutes of being dropped off she'd pissed on a rug and done a gooseberry fool in the hallway

Cute as anything though

Pedz wrote:Went to the vets today for my dogs yearly booster. Turns out he has cataracts.

Anyone know of a way to get help to pay for it? I have insurance but it covers £1000. This is going to cost to get it sorted the minimum of £4,500 and I can't afford anywhere near that money.

Not that this is probably much help, but if it comes to it could you do some sort of fundraiser?

I wouldn't even know where to start with something like that. I doubt anyone would care enough either.

strawberry floating hell, unlucky mate. Hope you can get it sorted and the little fella's ok.

It's more a surprise cause he's only 3, so he's not old where it's more likely to happen.

Is it something that needs sorting asap? Or can it wait while you explore other avenues for getting the money together past what your insurance will cover? If its not causing him any pain then is there any other downsides to waiting while you get the money together?

In other news our family got a new dog back in January this year (after having our previous one put to sleep back in February 2016) she’s now just over 6 months old. She’s a rescue dog from the RSPCA due to her tail being illegally docked. Meet Luna, a border terrier crossed with (what we’ve been told) a Lakeland terrier. This photo was taken a few weeks back but she’s not really changed/grown much in the meantime. Absolutely crazy but a pretty likeable dog 99% of the time

Robbo-92 wrote:Is it something that needs sorting asap? Or can it wait while you explore other avenues for getting the money together past what your insurance will cover? If its not causing him any pain then is there any other downsides to waiting while you get the money together?

He's not in pain, but the longer it's left the more chance of him losing his eyesight or eyes. Also increases the chances of complications when operated on, which could lead to blindness, or other problems which could then lead into more surgery. Going to start phoning different vets as well, the one we went to said I'd have to see a specialist in Bristol. I don't drive and I am not taking the dog on a train from near Cardiff to Bristol. So, going to find out of there's something more local.

Pedz wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Is it something that needs sorting asap? Or can it wait while you explore other avenues for getting the money together past what your insurance will cover? If its not causing him any pain then is there any other downsides to waiting while you get the money together?

He's not in pain, but the longer it's left the more chance of him losing his eyesight or eyes. Also increases the chances of complications when operated on, which could lead to blindness, or other problems which could then lead into more surgery. Going to start phoning different vets as well, the one we went to said I'd have to see a specialist in Bristol. I don't drive and I am not taking the dog on a train from near Cardiff to Bristol. So, going to find out of there's something more local.

Hope one of the more local vets can help him (and yourself) out then.

Cheers.

Just seen the kitten my sister bought.

Holy gooseberry fool its cute as strawberry float and has fold ears. I want to steal it.

Apparently my dad's recently adopted a French bulldog because someone he knows couldn't breed it and decided they had no use for it, the bastards.

He's never been a dog person. I'm visiting in two weeks.

Operation Rescue the Rescue is a go

The as yet unnamed kitten is starting to cautiously explore the house but keeps returning to the safety of the extension (where my sister still lives) and keeps running away from everyone except my sister.

The little fella is also difficult to spot as his size and markings (light ginger with light brown stripes) seen to allow him to blend in against the laminate flooring, cats are a tripping hazard anyway but I can tell this one will excell at it.

Ironhide wrote:The as yet unnamed kitten is starting to cautiously explore the house but keeps returning to the safety of the extension (where my sister still lives) and keeps running away from everyone except my sister.

The little fella is also difficult to spot as his size and markings (light ginger with light brown stripes) seen to allow him to blend in against the laminate flooring, cats are a tripping hazard anyway but I can tell this one will excell at it.

My cat tends to follow you about like a shadow and the other week she hadn't followed me into the kitchen for once, I was sorting some stuff out, turned around and stood on her the ninja!!!

Ran off, cat literally no idea about personal space!

poshrule_uk wrote:

Ironhide wrote:The as yet unnamed kitten is starting to cautiously explore the house but keeps returning to the safety of the extension (where my sister still lives) and keeps running away from everyone except my sister.

The little fella is also difficult to spot as his size and markings (light ginger with light brown stripes) seen to allow him to blend in against the laminate flooring, cats are a tripping hazard anyway but I can tell this one will excell at it.

My cat tends to follow you about like a shadow and the other week she hadn't followed me into the kitchen for once, I was sorting some stuff out, turned around and stood on her the ninja!!!

Ran off, cat literally no idea about personal space!

Why is your cat following Ironhide around?

Guess this is the best place to put this. Was just posting some shirts and found a smart looking white yorkie/poodle cross with no tag (why? It had a collar but no tag) out on the street, which was odd. Sort of asked "where do you belong?" And it came bounding across the road to me while a car was oncoming which I gestured wildly to slow almost to a stop.

Kept asking the dog where it's from as if that would help and hear someone shouting in their house. I say "she's over here". Of course they open the door across the street while I was just picking up the dog to drop it off wherever and call some houses. So it immediately looks like I'm some weird guy cradling a dog. I explain I just saw your dog on the street and they ask abruptly in an accent, "who are you?". Well I'm not a bloody dog napped am I, I explained I am just a neighbour on the way to a post box and here is this strawberry floating dog at 11pm in the pitch black.

No thanks or anything just muttered about must have left the door open and stormed off.

What a moron tbh. Dog could easily have been run over or lost or worse. It seemed young and naive enough to approach anyone and he seemed to be in his 20s too. Tag your strawberry floating dog.

Was going to call animal shelter or strawberry float knows since there was no information on the dog despite it being collared, which is weird imo. Even my cat had one of those little scrolls in a pod thing.

Twats.