Would you go this far?

[Balz3352]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesth...-tumor?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp&s=mobile#4ldqpgp

 

[SilverSurfer]

WOW

 

[Mermaid.purse]

Lol maybe

 

[SynDen]

Wow indeed, but If I had a fish that long I might consider it

 

[SilverSurfer]

I suppose but a goldfish? Maybe a purple tang or Helfrichi fire fish or something lol.

 

[sethsolomon]

if it is a fish that cost more that 1k yes

 

[zombie]

if it is a fish that cost more that 1k yes

+1. If the treatment was similar in cost to buying a new one and you've gotten attached, why not. But a 1k treatment on a $40 fish would be absurd. For something like a dog, its different since there is a different kind of bond.

 

[jahmic]

I think they said treatment was $200. If you're attached to a pet you're attached to a pet...even if it's "just a fish".

 

[jda123]

I would spend $200 to save one of my fish and take one less from the ocean.

What would any animal right activist think of this thread when people are saying that they would just kill the animal and take another from the wild because it was cheaper? If you are going to be a good steward of a captured creature, then don't you owe it to them?

 

[sethsolomon]

I would spend $200 to save one of my fish and take one less from the ocean.

What would any animal right activist think of this thread when people are saying that they would just kill the animal and take another from the wild because it was cheaper? If you are going to be a good steward of a captured creature, then don't you owe it to them?

True $200 is not bad. But most of the time pet surgeries are horrendously expensive and cost more than they should. It would be a case by case basis ultimately.


Just an example, one of my friends had a chiwawa that had cancer and she had the vet do surgery on it and it cost her $10k. For me that would be a deal breaker.