my 16 year old cat I've lived with since she was a kitten, is having several health problems, and I took the afternoon off work to get her into the emergency pet hospital...
mostly because she's dehydrated, and constipated.
I can tell you that waiting in a cold waiting room for 5 hours, to trade a paycheck to find out that she's slightly anemic, dehydrated, etc and to get her an enema and clean out her pipes... was an awfully expensive way to accomplish what the vets didn't want to do, but evidence proved was necessary.
Old age has caught up with her, as it catches us all, and starts shutting down the healthy organ systems
You simply can't pay people to do what you already know needs to be done, and the vet didn't want to do an enema without a 600 dollar xray first. I told her, you will get me to pay for it if you guarantee it's needed. She took me up on that, and I didn't pay for the xray as in my 25 years of taking cats to vets, they insist on an expensive X ray, and every time, it's not conclusively useful in the diagnosis.
