charities for help with vet bills?

NevGeorge

I'm unemployed and in receipt of no benefits because my wife is on her pension and has to claim pension credit together with council tax. We have a dog, Oscar, he is 4 years old and frankly if we had another insurance on top of house, life, contents, Boiler + we still have to pay our mortgage we would probably sink under the weight of it all.

Sometimes I feel all these insurances are meaningless and overly expensive and just sucking money away we simply don't have so yet another insurance is on the back burner for time being unless I cut out my life insurance but by doing that if anything happens to me then the mortgage would not be paid off and the burden would be on my wife.

Kieron26

My mum used to use PDSA pdsa.org.uk as she was on certain benefits.

Try giving them a go :-)

They even have an online eligibility checker

EDIT: Just read your first post, oops still give the online checker a go with your postcode and it will tell you.

kkpolobear

hi sorry if this is in the wrong place but i have just got me self a jack russell and she sometimes walks just on 3 legs and my dog b4 done the same be4 he past away also i am in need of some help getting the jack russell done i have managed to find the number for dos trust thanks to this page but is there any others i could try? thanks for the help x

Niklas

The problem many have is that yes they are working but their low wage does not enable them to pay large vet fees in fact some people om benefits actualy have a higher income than some who work.
So how is the P.D.S.A system fair?

My Cat has a serious problem with one of its eyes and to even confirm whats wrong I am told can cost £400 and if it needs operating on the price could be in 4 figures!
I work for a local authority on a very low wage that just allows me to make ends meet.
In the end its My cat that will suffer or have to get put down in the meantime My Cat is in pain on medication.
I am not the only one in this situation.
I understand the P.D.S.A is a charity and have always done all I can to raise cash for them My Aunt collected around £23,000 in Her lifetime I have encouraged My Kids to raise cash in various ways but I am on a low wage and My Animal is suffering how is this putting the animal first?

Why is my animal suffering because I am on a low wage and an unemployed person who gets more than me getting 2 of their animals treated free?
That is simply not right and is not fair to my animal She is 12 and has never up until this point been ill.

Niklas

lincroft1710 wrote: »

If a parent couldn't afford to look after their child and thus neglected it, social services would probably take it away anyway.

Animals and children are not the same, and obviously animals do not have the same rights as humans. A child will get free medical treatment as a right, an animal won't.

Although conversely the law will ban people who have neglected or were cruel to their animals from keeping other animals in the future, it does not ban cruel/neglectful parents from having more children.

Animals and human beings both have life in them,feel pain and both have rights if the law allows the breeding and sale of animals then the law must and does have a duty to uphold these rights.
As for the neglect of children who decides or defines what 'neglect' is these days?

why should any human being accept that animals should have less rights?

If governments destroy the economy by their greed and areas become hot spots of uneployement impacting on the kind of life parents can give their kids can we really say such parents are abusing their kids?

Is the answer to the fact many families not just kids dont have a reasonable standard of living through no fault of their own but through our past and present governments greed/incompetence to ban folks from exercising the basic human right to reproduce?

How about challenging the causes of poverty and the incompetence of those that 'govern' would that not be a better way to improve family life and the lives of children?

As somone who understands how a life in care impacts and can and has been extremely detrimental to kids I feel and I do bear in mind some kids have to be removed from the family environment for their own safety that removing kids has to be the very last resort.

Many kids homes are not the safe places most folks think they are.

In todays UK most parents are doing the best they can under circumstaces they have little control over and cant provide a large bungalow or drive their kids to school in a porche socials services need to understand this fact a bit more and be a bit more careful when deciding what is and is not child abuse and what constitutes neglect.

lincroft1710

Niklas wrote: »

Animals and human beings both have life in them,feel pain and both have rights if the law allows the breeding and sale of animals then the law must and does have a duty to uphold these rights.

So you think the law should uphold the right to breed and sell animals? Before you make any comment just read what you actually wrote

As for the neglect of children who decides or defines what 'neglect' is these days?

Courts of Law.

why should any human being accept that animals should have less rights?

I don't know. Surely it is up to the individual what they accept or believe.

If governments destroy the economy by their greed and areas become hot spots of uneployement impacting on the kind of life parents can give their kids can we really say such parents are abusing their kids?

You're confusing abuse with "unable to afford to give". I'm certainly not suggesting or implying parents in such circumstances are guilty of "abuse".

Is the answer to the fact many families not just kids dont have a reasonable standard of living through no fault of their own but through our past and present governments greed/incompetence to ban folks from exercising the basic human right to reproduce?

Good point

How about challenging the causes of poverty and the incompetence of those that 'govern' would that not be a better way to improve family life and the lives of children?

I personally am not actually looking to change the world, I gave up those ideas over 40 years ago. But again it's a good point.

As somone who understands how a life in care impacts and can and has been extremely detrimental to kids I feel and I do bear in mind some kids have to be removed from the family environment for their own safety that removing kids has to be the very last resort.

Many kids homes are not the safe places most folks think they are.

In todays UK most parents are doing the best they can under circumstaces they have little control over and cant provide a large bungalow or drive their kids to school in a porche socials services need to understand this fact a bit more and be a bit more careful when deciding what is and is not child abuse and what constitutes neglect.

I'm not quite sure of the relevance of a lot of your post is to my post. I simply, dispassionately stated facts (as I do in many of my posts) with no opinion as to the rights and wrongs of legislation or any status quo.

kezzy131109

i have a cat who is approx 15, i adopted him so not sure of exact age.

he has not eaten for a few days now, i have rang around all my local vets, no one will help.

i have a job but my husband is unemployed, therefore we are not entitled to any housing or council tax benefits.

have rang rspca, they dont seem to wanna know! what happened to these charities caring about the animals?!

and before you tell me i should give the cat away, i earn a good wage, enough to cover bills rent etc, but this is the first month hubby has been out of work so its just taking some adjusting to.

when i got the cat he was around 12, i tried a few insurance companies but either they refused to insure or were quoting a small fortune due to age of cat.

sorry to rant but i just read some of these previous posts and they made me so angry!!! :mad:

lincroft1710

kezzy131109 wrote: »

i have rang around all my local vets, no one will help.

have rang rspca, they dont seem to wanna know! what happened to these charities caring about the animals?!

Did you mean the vets don't want to treat a 15 yr old cat or that they won't offer free advice/consultation.

As I understand it, RSPCA is for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, they're not a veterinary service.

Have you tried PDSA?

Sagz_2

kezzy131109 wrote: »

i have a cat who is approx 15, i adopted him so not sure of exact age.

he has not eaten for a few days now, i have rang around all my local vets, no one will help.

i have a job but my husband is unemployed, therefore we are not entitled to any housing or council tax benefits.

have rang rspca, they dont seem to wanna know! what happened to these charities caring about the animals?!

and before you tell me i should give the cat away, i earn a good wage, enough to cover bills rent etc, but this is the first month hubby has been out of work so its just taking some adjusting to.

when i got the cat he was around 12, i tried a few insurance companies but either they refused to insure or were quoting a small fortune due to age of cat.

sorry to rant but i just read some of these previous posts and they made me so angry!!! :mad:

When in a similar position to you (HUGE unexpected vet bill) I took out a 0% credit card - would this be an option for you?

loobyloose

Have you an easipetcare in your area, they have a website, they aim to be cheaper than normal vets, massively cheaper.
I'm getting my female dog neutered and its only £95.. if thats anything to go by prices, am on benefits but pdsa is more expensive.