Introduction

The article I found online is about a couple and their Chihuahua. Their dog ran out of their house and was mauled by a larger dog. The couple called 911 to locate the nearest vet hospital. They found a hospital nearby which offered 24-hour on call care, so they headed there. When they arrived the hospital was empty so they called the number they saw on the door. There was no answer. They raced to the nearest human hospital where someone called the vet hospital and got an answer. The couple was informed that the vet was 30 minutes away and was only on call for existing clients. After the couple offered to pay triple the veterinary bill, which was refused, they began traveling to another vet hospital which was another hour away. Despite their best efforts to receive help for their Chihuahua, the couple’s dog died en route to the pet hospital.

                This article shares just one of the many ways a veterinarian can appear to be unfair or unethical to their career. A veterinarian faces many hardships when it comes to the treatment of a client’s pet. A client who is refused treatment may feel it is because of lack of money, while the vet feels that the procedure would be too costly out of their pocket. My point here is: why should the vet pay for the bill that the pet owner cannot pay? If a client cannot afford a bill, they seem to expect the veterinarian to pay it for them. What the client does not know is that the vet would then have to pay the bill out of their own pocket for an animal that isn’t theirs. What the vet doesn’t know is that the client doesn’t realize that the vet will have to pay from their own pocket. This all results from lack of communication and misunderstandings between client and vet.