Today, I paid $325 to have the vet tell me that my 19-year-old cat ISN'T dying, she just had anxiety shits because we were gone on vacation for so long. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out after $200 worth of checks and tests, three rugs being ruined from her peeing and pooping on them, that my cat isn't sick. She just has really bad separation anxiety. FML
Today, I dropped $1600 at the emergency vet because I thought my 14 year-old cat was constipated or obstructed. He was neither. He just had lots of gas in his intestines. I paid $1600 to find out my cat needed to fart. FML
Today, I had to put my cat to sleep after she was in an accident. While I was crying hysterically, the vet asked me for $230. FML
Today, I was nervous about taking my cat to the vet for a UTI, because money’s a little tight. Turns out the antibiotics weren’t that expensive, but he wants at least $1,000 for dental surgery she apparently “needs.” FML
Today, after seeing my cat struggle to use the litterbox and produce nothing for two days, I caved and took him to the emergency vet, fearing a UTI. It wasn't. $200 and 2 Lyft rides later, he's stoned out of his mind and peeing just fine. FML
Today, my cat was hit by a car. I took it to the vet expecting the worst but they told me that she’d be fine. I was so happy I didn't even mind paying the $50 bill. The next morning my cat was dead. Having her put down humanely would have cost $45, I paid $5 extra to have her die in my kitchen. FML
Today, I took my cat to the vet for an x-ray. They found three dollar coins in his stomach. The surgery to remove them is $600. FML
Today, I'm sitting at the vet's office while they run expensive tests on my cat. This is to make sure he doesn't have a bowel obstruction from eating the condom that my partner and I used last night. FML
Today, I paid $70 to learn from the vet that my cat doesn't have a UTI, he's just developed a fetish for peeing on plastic bags. FML
Today, I had to explain to my boss that the reason I was sobbing hysterically as she told me that I was getting a pay raise was because I was going to the vet to have my sick and dying cat put down. Good news at a bad time. FML
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electrorange 13
After 19 years, I would assume you know how your cat works.
OhWhoCares 42
Vets are ridiculously expensive, but at least your kitty is healthy :)
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Comments (74)
Masonjar13 10
That's not a problem, that's just your responsibility as a pet owner.
JustDuckiest 1
Well that's pretty reasonable, actually. Human medicine is even more expensive -- you just usually don't get to see your own bill if you have health care. Glad your kitty is okay!
CrysisKing 5
Hahahaha thats the funniest thing iv ever read on fml!!
Sir_Derp 7
Thats better than paying 325$ for the vet to tell you your cat is dying
JJ_86 22
I must be wrong in not understanding the vet's diagnosis. But how does a cat know the family is going for a LONG vacation?
Lepisma 38
They weren't about to leave, they had already been gone and come back. The cat was stressed because its environment had a major change (its family disappeared for a long amount of time and the cat had no way of knowing what was going on).
JoshMohawk 11
YDI. Why complain about the vet bill when you were willing to take a geriatric cat, you thought was dying, to the vet? Seems you were quite willing to spend any amount just to hear the vet say your cat was old, dying, and there was nothing he could do to help. So I don't understand what you're complaining about.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
She was probably nervous that you were gone so long.
JustWeeMe 11
FYL??? Isn't that a GOOD thing???
AFaye3964 17
Good for you for having a cat for so long.
__paulinaa 2
you must've felt shitty