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| - The fact that I had to add a star to post is generous. My poor Sully cat is gone at the hands of the ill equipped so called vet techs at the emergency vets. I brought him in late on Saturday August 29, 2015 after we found him with a severely swollen right leg and paw. He was taken back by a tech and I was given some paperwork. I of course was told how much it would cost just to evaluate him, shave him, and give him a pain injection, I said of course. Why they were waiting was beyond me. I'd been there about an hour before I was called back I never saw him. A vet (I think) she seemed young, came in and explained that his leg and paw were very swollen and bruised. She asked where we lived and if we lived near any mountains were there were snakes? We said not too close to the mountains. She referred to snakes several times during the visit and showed us a normal x-ray. She wanted to order blood work, but with the x-ray, pain medication, evaluation, and antibiotics the bill was already at $500. If I added the blood work it would've been close to $1000. I just couldn't do it. I loved my Sully!!! She KNEW it was a snake bite!!! Instead of ordering an x-ray, why didn't she order blood work? She diagnosed him with cellulitis, gave me pain meds and antibiotics. His leg and paw were almost black when they finally brought him to me. They told me to call if I needed anything. They told me to make sure he ate something before he took his antibiotics. When he got home I tried to feed him, but he was like a zombie. He drank a little water, I gave him the antibiotics. His paws started getting very cold so I called them, but they DIDN'T answer!!! I tried twice.... They are open 24 hours. At 7:30 a.m. I gave him a second dose of pain meds and took a nap. When I woke up he was dead I found out from a neighbor that a western diamondback rattlesnake has been loose in my neighborhood. They knew he had been bit by a snake! They've seen snake bites before! It is they're job and they're training!!! I called that morning to let him know that he had passed, again no answer....
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