Does this strike anyone else as wrong?

[Kuroneko97]

...This reminds me of that South Park episode "Douche and Turd."

But honestly, some other animals and humans have gone more hour or even days without help for their injuries. I've been hurt before for that long (although not as serious). And as someone else said, you see a cat writhing around, you think maybe he has something on him. Cats act strange if you put tape on them. I've seen it. I've done it to previous cats for the lulz.

Cats act strangely for many reasons. And one could assume many of these reasons before thinking "Hm, this cat may be hurt." Yeah, America doesn't seem right anymore. Let's go to Antarctica and live with the penguins. Maybe we can give the penguins blow jobs and they'll pay us in fish.

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

Food for thought. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but cancer treatments often cost in the millions per year, and that's lots of people getting lots of treatments. From a pure, cold, logical standpoint, a businessman wouldn't let out a cure if he had one because it would significantly reduce his profit. Now, it's entirely possible that this is true, however preposterous. I still don't believe it, but the idea has struck me as a possibility.

Why preposterous? It's a fact of capitalism, and in any coutry pretty much run by capitalism you can expect this. There's probably several cures discovered already, it's jsut that we would never get to know about them because it wouldn't be "good for business" to release these cures, since they would reduce the profits of private pharmaceutical companies.

This is why medicine shouldn't be allowed to be a completely privately owned business, and a major area where capitalism FAILS big time...

 

[BlackWidower]

So she actually went to jail? That's ridiculous. Did it make the papers? It should. Any self-respecting journalist would cover it.

 

[robodukky]

It certainly strikes me as wrong. I mean, wtf is with the vet calling animal abuse for taking a pet in to get fixed. I know lots of other people have pretty much said this and better, but I thought I should just get my opinion out there.

 

[BabyRaptor]

very, very wrong.
...that never should have held up in court. Many people leave cats alone at home for upwards of 12 hours a day while they're at work. Four hours alone does not constitute abuse.

Hasn't gone to court yet. The Vet visit just happened a couple hours ago, so presumably he'll be reporting her tomorrow when those kinds of people are awake.

 

[Stryc9]

That's almost as stupid as the one about the guy in Oregon who got 5 years for swerving to hit an already dead poussum on the side of the road, which he somehow missed. How'd he get busted? Some animal rights hippie was behind him and saw him swerve so they called the police.

 

[ecoho]

Got a story for you guys. I want to know if anyone else thinks this is whack.

My best friend just called me in tears. She's had a pretty rough couple weeks...Her mother had a heart attack, and she's been staying at the hospital with her.

Missy has a cat. I have no idea what kind of cat, but it's one of the ones with really long fur. Since she's been staying in the hospital with Mom, her boyfriend and I have been dropping in daily to let the cat out and check food/water. When the boyfriend went over there tonight, the cat was acting weird, like it was in pain. So Boyfriend goes to the hospital to sit with Mom and Missy takes Kitty to an emergency vet in the area.

Diagnosis: Busted abscess. The Vet gave her this long speech about how Kitty was going to be OK, it wasn't anything fatal...Then informs her that the cat had been "left hurting" for over 4 hours, and thus he had to report her for animal abuse.

So let me see if I have this straight. The current US health care policy is "If you can't afford insurance, or the company denies you for some BS reason, just die quickly" and any attempt to change that is regarded as evil and an attack on our very foundation. But an animal left in a bit of pain for a few hours is abuse and worthy of jail time? (I know it wasn't long, because I was over there around noon to give Kitty lunch, and he was perfectly fine.)

lol sue that basterd and fast you will win soooo easily. hell that wont even go to court theyll give your what ever you want in a heart beat cause what they just did is a no no

 

[BabyRaptor]

So he sees the cat's in pain and just leaves it? He should be the one being charged, but i don't understand how the fuck the vet knows all this. Did you/he/she say "we left the cat after we noticed it was in pain for a couple of hours" to the vet? I imagine that's why she's being charged with abuse then.

Her boyfriend noticed that the cat was in pain, called her and she came home and took the cat to the Vet. I'm assuming she explained all this to the Vet when trying to explain why she didn't notice the situation sooner.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

The American healthcare system is an absolute joke. Go Australia.

 

[General BrEeZy]

um. not cool people. or person.
wow thats nowhere near abuse. abuse is throwing your cat onto a hot stovetop knowing that its very hot and will hurt it. abuse is not whacking your cat several times on the head for attacking a fellow house cat viciously. and while were talking health care, if we become required by federal law to have health care and lots of people cant afford it, then theyre just creating more problems than theyre correcting. ah f**k this health care stuff, i hate talking about this stuff. i just hate a lot of things right now so i'll just shut up and get offline for awhile. goodnight.

 

[stormcrow5]

God thats stupid how can they do that, if u go out to work/school for a day leave home ur pet is perfectly fine then during the day it hurts itself and u get home take it to a vet, you would get in shit for it? just WTH how the hell they come up with this crap

 

[zehydra]

"So let me see if I have this straight. The current US health care policy is "If you can't afford insurance, or the company denies you for some BS reason, just die quickly" and any attempt to change that is regarded as evil and an attack on our very foundation. "

That isn't the current US health care policy.

And attempts to change the current policy have only been regarded as "evil" by a few extremists with loud mouths.

 

[SkyeNeko]

i think that vets a dog person >> ANYONE who has had cats know that 1.) they survive if you leave them at home. Ive had to leave my cat home for a bit more than a day (ample food and water than she doesnt finish) max a couple times a year. shes not stupid, she wont go get herself into trouble. 2.) its a cat. like above, shes not gonna go tell you shes hurt, or even let on. from what ive read they dont even die in public. cat could be throwing up blood in the corner of the laundry room and you wouldnt know what happened. i mean OBVIOUSLY she didnt mean for it to get hurt. not like she stuck a knife in it and ran to the vet 3.) note to self: refrain from stoopid accusations when you become a vet

 

[Hisshiss]

Got a story for you guys. I want to know if anyone else thinks this is whack.

My best friend just called me in tears. She's had a pretty rough couple weeks...Her mother had a heart attack, and she's been staying at the hospital with her.

Missy has a cat. I have no idea what kind of cat, but it's one of the ones with really long fur. Since she's been staying in the hospital with Mom, her boyfriend and I have been dropping in daily to let the cat out and check food/water. When the boyfriend went over there tonight, the cat was acting weird, like it was in pain. So Boyfriend goes to the hospital to sit with Mom and Missy takes Kitty to an emergency vet in the area.

Diagnosis: Busted abscess. The Vet gave her this long speech about how Kitty was going to be OK, it wasn't anything fatal...Then informs her that the cat had been "left hurting" for over 4 hours, and thus he had to report her for animal abuse.

So let me see if I have this straight. The current US health care policy is "If you can't afford insurance, or the company denies you for some BS reason, just die quickly" and any attempt to change that is regarded as evil and an attack on our very foundation. But an animal left in a bit of pain for a few hours is abuse and worthy of jail time? (I know it wasn't long, because I was over there around noon to give Kitty lunch, and he was perfectly fine.)

I feel like this cant be the whole story, I mean even with the given that its nearly impossible to even know since people ynow..sleep, go to work, go places. And animals not telegraphing themselves nearly as well as people, those are a given though.

That being said, as bad as "left hurting for 4 hours" sounds, that's not all that unlikely, even by human standards, especially considering how long it would take to even notice the cat was in pain. Hell, I was having really awful Esophageal Spasms for a good 7 or 8 hours before it was decided we should go to the hospital, to the point I was in tears, and I don't recall the doctor mentioning anything about abuse.

I would have to guess they explained the situation wrong and left him thinking they actually stared at the cat for 4 hours after they noticed symptoms, as suggesting that not being around the cat for 4 hours is somehow worthy of animal abuse charges would be stupid.

 

[EllEzDee]

So he sees the cat's in pain and just leaves it? He should be the one being charged, but i don't understand how the fuck the vet knows all this. Did you/he/she say "we left the cat after we noticed it was in pain for a couple of hours" to the vet? I imagine that's why she's being charged with abuse then.

I think you're misunderstanding what happened. They came home, cat appeared fine. Then they went back 4 hours later and the cat was no longer fine, so it was taken to the vet. The vet is complaining that the cat was in pain during the time when nobody was home and nobody knew that it was suffering.

OT: I'm pretty sure the vet's claim here is ridiculous, but it couldn't hurt to check local laws just to verify that.

Nope, i think i've got it right.
"When the boyfriend went over there tonight, the cat was acting weird, like it was in pain. So Boyfriend goes to the hospital to sit with Mom and Missy takes Kitty to an emergency vet in the area."

Meaning, the guy goes there, sees it's not ok but still leaves it alone. Then the girl takes it to the vet like 4 hours later.