Roxie

Roxie has been with me about 3 months now.  She is a sweetie.  She came at the right time.  Jock is beginning a downcline.  He is developing congestive heart failure.  And Roxie watches out for him.  When he goes outside,  so does she and she will sit on the porch until he comes in, then she comes in with him.  A few weeks ago she had a really bad case of giardia.  I took her to Texas A&M Vet Clinic.  I got there around 8:30 PM.  Got in.  They ran a parvo test even though she had had two parvo shots because my vet wanted to make sure she did not get it.  And I waited, and waited, and waited.  The attending vet wanted to do an x-ray.  I was good with that because she is a puppy and I wanted to make sure she had not eaten anything to hurt her.  Then the vet wanted me to pay to have the x-ray read.  Really?  She is a vet and can't read the x-ray?  I can read an x-ray and I have no qualifications.  So I did.  So rolling around to 2:30am, yes 2:30am and the vet, if she is one, comes out and tells me she thinks, yes THINKS, Roxie has parasites.  No, she is on Heartguard Plus so no parasites.  Well, I think that is what it is.  Did you run a fecal to make sure?  No, but I think that she has parasites.  Me: Well I want a fecal to see what she does have.  Her: In my opinion, she has parasites.  Me:  I am not paying for your opinion.  Her:  I am giving you 3  cans of prescription dog food, nope I paid for them, and 5 packets of fenbendasol to treat the parasites.  Me: She has giardia.  This will not help.  Her: Well if she is not better in 24 hours bring her back.  All this for $649.00.  And my dog is still very sick.  So I drove out of town to another vet, paid emergency fees, and a fecal test, got meds for her and by Saturday afternoon, she was fine.  So all told to get the meds she needed, I shelled out $798, $649 of that was wasted.