A Puppy's Christmas, year 5!
Jan. 6th, 2014 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingHoly crap, I'm posting this late, too. And apparently it's been *more than a year* since I posted pictures of the furbeasts here.
Due to food allergy concerns, this year we gave her something a little different from all previous years.
That's an antler!
She likes it.
Puppy had a rough fucking 2013, and I mostly didn't blog about it here. Let's put it this way: "septic peritonitis", and "50/50 she lives through the next 48 hours" in February.
And when she survived and recovered, she needed knee surgery.
She's doing great. Really, really great. Her energy levels are back at 100%, her health is fine, and she limps a little when the weather is cold and damp but doesn't let that slow her down.
In the mean time, Oldcat is now 20. Yes, 20 years old. She's slowing down and spends more time sleeping in front of the fire, but she's still active enough to pound the crap out of the dog and the other cats if she's upset about them, and she knows it. And so do they.
Anyway. I haven't been posting nearly as many of my own pictures here because, frankly, uploading to a place I can link to LJ from is a royal pain in the ass from my phone, whereas it's two clicks to go from phone to edited to G+. I should try to correct that.
Due to food allergy concerns, this year we gave her something a little different from all previous years.
That's an antler!
She likes it.
Puppy had a rough fucking 2013, and I mostly didn't blog about it here. Let's put it this way: "septic peritonitis", and "50/50 she lives through the next 48 hours" in February.
And when she survived and recovered, she needed knee surgery.
She's doing great. Really, really great. Her energy levels are back at 100%, her health is fine, and she limps a little when the weather is cold and damp but doesn't let that slow her down.
In the mean time, Oldcat is now 20. Yes, 20 years old. She's slowing down and spends more time sleeping in front of the fire, but she's still active enough to pound the crap out of the dog and the other cats if she's upset about them, and she knows it. And so do they.
Anyway. I haven't been posting nearly as many of my own pictures here because, frankly, uploading to a place I can link to LJ from is a royal pain in the ass from my phone, whereas it's two clicks to go from phone to edited to G+. I should try to correct that.
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Date: 2014-01-07 02:11 am (UTC)(But yeah, definitely worth trying to fix. I know El-Jay doesn't let you add pics from your phone (or anything on your phone) to posts, but I imagine there has to be some kind of app that does.)
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Date: 2014-01-07 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-07 05:18 am (UTC)For what little it's worth, I did the math: If we'd insured all our pets, all the time, forever, that still would have cost more than this did. We simply have the luxury of absorbing this kind of sudden cost.
And if we'd known in advance how much the total would have been, we would have had to look VERY closely at the money versus the odds of survival, and I'm not sure we would have taken that gamble. As it was, we were always "out of pocket X, it's only X+small" at every stage, and I'm EXTREMELY glad we did. She's a lovely puppy.
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Date: 2014-01-08 01:34 pm (UTC)Obviously the plural of anecdote isn't data, but insurance has worked out excellently for us so far. And in a sense pet insurance is like a pension, savings that you can't tap for something else and so will always be there when your animal needs treatment.
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Date: 2014-01-07 05:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-07 06:51 pm (UTC)(Am very glad the LYS manager approves of her.)
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Date: 2014-01-08 02:06 am (UTC)