Learning to walk before I run

edinburgher

@South_coast - I don't MB any more. We are currently in the best financial position we have been in 3-4 months, I just hate to go back 5 steps because of random cat stupidity 

KajiKita

Tbh, I would let the cat recover on her own. She’s quite young isn’t she? I do vaccinations for our little monster ❤️ but avoid the vet for everything else as much as possible. She came in one night a while with a bleeding paw. She was very subdued and quiet for a few days, breathing heavily but recovered on her own - looked like she had pulled a claw half out or some such. We would have taken her in if there had been something stuck in there. 

If there is nothing showing in the x-ray it’s probably just a soft tissue injury. There’s not much that vets can do to help with that, just as for doctors and humans with that kind of injury. 🤞 for her and you. 

KK

edinburgher

@KajiKita - She's 7, give or take. YMMV, but I'd always have a cat who has gone lame with no visible external injury checked by the vet. This particular cat has a metal pin in her other leg, had a nasty episode with an infected abscess and recently experienced mystery allergies. I wouldn't risk leaving her to her own devices, conditions only ever seem to get worse.

£4.24 OPed, £0.74 cashback from Chase.

LadyWithAPlan

Sorry to hear about the cat - hopefully she will recover soon 

edinburgher

https://www.ft.com/content/a2c68e37-cebe-4c06-a715-bad4498ee89c

Good news for the side hustlers

Suffolk_lass

Ooh, I might do a few more honey sales at markets this coming FY then!

Watty1

Hope the cat recovers with a miracle.   Its really hard, I always err on the side of caution with the horses as the bills rise so dramatically if something gets worse however I was a bit put off when I discovered that the vets "on the road" for the horses have daily financial targets to meet. That doesn't square with patient care in my book at all.

themadvix

Watty1 said:

Hope the cat recovers with a miracle.   Its really hard, I always err on the side of caution with the horses as the bills rise so dramatically if something gets worse however I was a bit put off when I discovered that the vets "on the road" for the horses have daily financial targets to meet. That doesn't square with patient care in my book at all.

So many of the vets have been bought up by big companies (multinationals, possibly? I can't remember exactly, but the Beeb did an article a while back) and they are not the care-centred practices they used to be. It's not good for the patients or their owners as the bottom line is all about money. They don't change the names of the practices either, so you can't always tell straight off if it's an independent or not. Better regulation is needed IMO. So sad.

Hope cat recovers Ed - you've done the right thing getting her checked out.

badmemory

It seems to be the same which ever "industry" you have to use.  Anything that is owned as part of a business seems to have the same problem.  I have friends involved in garages & they have targets.  I would never trust one of them to MOT my vehicle or do a repair, just in case they are under target.  So I certainly wouldn't trust one owned like that to look after either our health or a pets health.

edinburgher

Nearly £700 paid out to the vet. Cat has had a reaction to the anti-inflammatory and was passing blood We have discontinued the medication and will now need new cat baskets. Blech!

All pots have been robbed, we've lost about 9 days on YNAB, no more OPs this month.

On the brighter side, work are amenable to me returning to some limited overtime, which might not be an awful idea if I keep it minimal.

£50 received from Y Live, 21% set aside for tax, 8% paid into S&S ISA. Maybe I'll not need my tax pot if they change the trading allowance?