Woman brings her cat to the veterinarian for a flea bath. It gets euthanized instead. - Polidicks

[QUOTE=The Baconator;37790566]no it's the vet's for giving him a form for euthanasia when they talked for 15 minutes about a flea bath[/QUOTE] Anyone knows that in the adult world, you read every inch of a form before signing your name on it. This guy didn't bother to read the TITLE of a LEGAL CONTRACT. It's not the doctors fault for doing what the guy LEGALLY REQUESTED OF HIM.

I bet "flea bath" has some mysterious subliminal meaning which translates into "euthanize". Remind me never to give a flea bath to my cat. Or any kind of bath. Shit gets real very fast when there's baths and cats involved.

I've never taken my pets to the vet and my oldest one. Nikki, she's a Jack-Russell Terrier. She's 18 years old, deaf and almost blind, she's on her last year I think, but I've never taken her to a vet her whole life. She's had a happy life, and it's breaking my heart that she's probably going to go soon, but it'll be k. . . I love you Nikki <3 [IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img811/2874/img0796u.jpg[/IMG]

You'd be really amazed at how long some animals live. The majority of cats will die early because from a genetics standpoint, their whole renal system is woefully failure prone. The truth is that a great deal of cats that die by the age of 15 could potentially live as long as 30 years or more if their renal system were able to last that long. I was recently at a house on the waterfront nearby (I'm in real estate) where this old 90+ couple were living... They had this cat, missy, who was about 28 years old and still looking totally fine. She had no teeth any more, and she had this funny way of saying hello which basically involved her 'gumming' your fingers with her toothless mouth, it was so adorable. But what I'm getting at basically is that domestic animals tend to have some serious flaws unique to each breed or even species where nature just hasn't got it quite right. Like how Labradors are extremely prone to cancerous tumors developing in their nasal canals... Just how it is. You may yet have Nikki for quite some time!

[QUOTE=Sobek-;37792750]You'd be really amazed at how long some animals live. The majority of cats will die early because from a genetics standpoint, their whole renal system is woefully failure prone. The truth is that a great deal of cats that die by the age of 15 could potentially live as long as 30 years or more if their renal system were able to last that long. I was recently at a house on the waterfront nearby (I'm in real estate) where this old 90+ couple were living... They had this cat, missy, who was about 28 years old and still looking totally fine. She had no teeth any more, and she had this funny way of saying hello which basically involved her 'gumming' your fingers with her toothless mouth, it was so adorable. But what I'm getting at basically is that domestic animals tend to have some serious flaws unique to each breed or even species where nature just hasn't got it quite right. Like how Labradors are extremely prone to cancerous tumors developing in their nasal canals... Just how it is. You may yet have Nikki for quite some time![/QUOTE] You just made me happy, and all teary eye'd. Thanks man, haha. :)

Both the vet and the owner are at fault here. The vet for being bloody told multiple times that it was a flea bath, then giving him the damned wrong form, and not asking any questions when he saw a perfectly healthy and lovely cat with a form that said to euthanize. The owner for not reading the form properly. Also, anyone making jokes about this in my opinion is a cruel bastard.

[QUOTE=simsfreak63;37789743]Exact opposite. The vet (or, infinitely more likely, some secretary) handed him the wrong form, he failed to read it and inadvertently signed it. The vet was doing exactly what the forms said the guy wanted. Small mistake on the vet's part, massive mistake on the dude's part.[/QUOTE] The vet is a trained professional though. There's a reasonable expectation of competence on them that there isn't on the owners.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;37789837]I disagree. The vet, and his employees, can't be expected to guess what people want. That's why there's paperwork in the first place. The cat's owner screwed up by not taking her own damn pets in, since she's the one who knows what is supposed to be done and she's the one they talked to at the vet's. The son screwed up by signing on his mom's behalf, without reading what he was signing OR calling his mom to verify what the paperwork said. The mom couldn't be bothered and neither could the son, that's what it comes down to in the end.[/QUOTE] They should know what he wants if they had called in and booked the stuff.

I hate cats. On another note, shouldn't that veterinary be sued for malpraxis? Just saying... I remember all those stupid US tv shows where special animal police put people in jail (for years on end) for kicking a cat but won't budge or do something about abortion and death penalty. RIP cat.

[QUOTE]Lady was special to the family because she first belonged to Ms. Conlon's daughter, who died in a car accident in 2010. Her daughter had given her the cat about a year before the fatal accident, Ms. Conlon said. [/QUOTE] This was the part that made me sad the most. Goddamn.

[QUOTE=Constructor;37784125]I chuckled at the title. Then I felt really bad.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXkF2viFDgU[/media]

Reminds me when my 7 year old German Shepard contacted gum cancer and had to be put down. I thought she cut her gums on something. I couldn't believe it when i was told.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;37784206]Heard about this on the radio... Apparently she was handed the forms, and nobody told her that they were forms for euthanasia, so she just... signed em.[/QUOTE] Honestly, people need to read things before they sign them. Nobody ever does. I have no idea why this guy gave her euthanasia forms though...

"oooh it was here for the...Oh Fuck..."

[QUOTE=BenJammin';37789478]Hahaha, what a hilarious mistake.[/QUOTE] Not really, but it's hilarious that you think that. . . .and by "hilarious," I mean "Dude. . .the fuck is wrong witchoo?"

That genuinely ruined my day.. ;_;

[QUOTE=lavacano;37791415]Your parents obviously made a bigger mistake letting you be born. Not quite as "hilarious" though.[/QUOTE] I am too edgy for you.

[QUOTE=timman;37784274]Definitely bad on the nurse's part but people really should read or even skim over any official documents they are about to sign.[/QUOTE] I always read before I sign, and it pisses off the people giving me the paper to sign, because they have to wait while I read it. But that's their problem, because half of them wouldn't mention the downsides to the contract anyway if they summarized it.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;37784206]Heard about this on the radio... Apparently she was handed the forms, and nobody told her that they were forms for euthanasia, so she just... signed em.[/QUOTE] That's why you need to read things.

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