My vet accepts CareCredit. My dentist accepts CareCredit. Go to carecredit.com and see if your vet is listed as taking CareCredit. If you put the bill on CareCredit you have a certain amount of time to pay it back INTEREST FREE. Check into that.very important.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Liz Bickel & Irv Weinberg Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Chihuahuas] Ok I need some help with this breed emergancy Although they aren't in LA, you might want to call the UC Veterinary Medicine Center, San Diego and explain what is going on. You can tell them about Daisy and ask if they will accept payment over time to pay for her required C-section. In my experience, most University, teaching, vet hospitals will do this. However, since San Diego is a drive for you (providing they can work with you financially), you probably will have to schedule a C-section for before she goes into strong, active labor. Give The University Vet hospital a call and discuss everything with them in detail. They usually have a finance department that takes care of extended payments. http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ucvmc_sd/ The other possibility is to talk to your own vet again about making payments over time. If you've been a client for some time, he would have to be very cold hearted to just let your Chihuahua die. Especially since he knows in advance what the situation is. A third possibility is to put the cost of the surgery on a Credit Card and pay it off over time (with interest of course). That's what I do if my bills (at vets other than my regular one) exceed what I have saved. I always try to keep at least $2000 set aside for vet emergencies, but the way things are these days, even that can quickly be depleted. Since you still have a few days to get things in order, there must be some way that you can find to delay payment of a huge-one-time-vet-bill and then gradually pay it off yourself over time. I find it sad that more & more vets are becoming more concerned about immediate payment than they are about the welfare of the animals. However, there are still options open for you to be able to be able to pay for Daisy's C-section. Wish you have started to look into this matter weeks ago when she first got bred. Then, there would have been no doubt that something with someone could have been arranged. Liz
