BOARDING

cattykatkat — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:55:46 +0800

CNY is around the corner and many people will be looking for boarding for their pets. the first place they will think of is the vets. is it advisable knowing that there will be sick animals at the vets? how many vets will take the trouble to segregate boarding healthy animals from the sick ones? as far as i know, many vets will just pack and squeeze in as many cages as they can into the areas where they put animals to maximise space and of course more money.

i have visited quite a number of vets and seen the place where they do boarding - sick animals and boarding animals together. the place stinks and looks so congested. of course, they will tell you how well your animals will be taken care of but owners, ask yourself. do you buy that kind of sales talk, knowing that making money is the issue here? from my experience, i know that the animals will be shifted around once the owners leave, for the vets to pack in more.

do u want your pets to be infested with ticks and fleas and maybe worse, come home sick with some sickness. let me assure u that it has happened to my animals before. when u confront the vet, they will always say that they did whatever they could and insinuate that ur pets were not healthy or they already had the problem when they first came in. who actually look after your pets when they r at boarding at the vet? foreign labour. many vets employ those. if u believe that these people r going to treat ur pets as well as they say they would, don't be gullible. i have boarded animals at vets before over a few years.

what is the best option then? there r people who go from house to house to feed and clean your pets. of course, make sure they are trustworthy and reliable. check their history. take down their particulars. talk to people who have used their services. else, you can always visit some pet shops, look at their premises and drill them as to how they will take care of your pets, what will they feed, etc. do they insist on vaccination cards and deflea? they should, if they are responsible. better, if they have a webcam and are willing to let owners view their pets.

the WORST thing will be to expose your pets to health dangers at vets. vaccination does not guarantee everything, neither does flea control (vets love frontline). i know a dog that died of parvo although it was vaccinated. the owner treated it like their son and went for holiday overseas leaving it at a vet. the dog literally died in the vet's arms. anyway, most vets close early and the dogs are left there until the next morning. i even heard that some vets feed sedatives to dogs to keep them quiet. i have fed this particular brand of sedative before, at vet's instruction, to my very fierce uncontrollable cats when we want to move house and we found that the heartbeat of the cats slows down and eyeballs become dilated.

so, for the sake of ur pets, THINK HARD if u do not want to regret.

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