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God will bless your neighbor for his kindness and you for your love for your pet.

[Greeneyedlady21]

@Desert Lily I'm so glad that your fur baby is ok. Your neighbor is a great person, the world needs more people like him.

[Effie54]

@Desert Lily  What a fabulous, giving neighbor. That's such a kind gesture. They must be great neighbors. I hope your fur baby is feeling much better soon. ❤️

[AZfem]

What a lovely neighbor & so good furbaby is on the mend. So you have no 24 hour emergency clinics around?  We gave several here (big city) for when vets offices are closed. 

[Puggywuggy]

I'm so glad your precious furbaby is doing better! We do not have an emergency vet in our area and must travel over an hour to reach the nearest one...which is absolutely terrifying.

God bless your neighbor for his kindness to you and your beloved furbaby. I'm so glad it all worked out.❤️

[qvcaddition]

@Desert Lily 

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@Desert Lily wrote:

After dinner on Christmas, I noticed my fur baby had blood in her urine. I decided to call her vet 1st thing in the morning.

On Thursday morning, I found my vet's office is closed until Jan. 2nd. In the meantime, my fur baby threw up, had several bowel movements, & still had blood in her urine. I then called the other vet in my rural small town; they wouldn't see my fur baby bc they'd never seen her b4. What?!

(I have all my dog's records)

I called my SIL who's lived in PA much longer than me, but she barely had a voice & was sick with bronchitis. She offered to wear a mask & take us to an animal emergency place, but I told her to stay in bed & get better.

Then, I called my neighbor who's on winter break from his job. He contacted the vet he uses for his 2 dogs & got an appt. for my fur baby that afternoon. He offered to drive me there, which is in the next nearby small town. I readily accepted.

While driving, the phone rang in his car. It was his brother wishing him a happy birthday. I had no idea.

After an exam, ultrasound, urine analysis, etc. the vet gave my fur baby a Covenia antibiotic injection for a UTI & a probiotic Rx. She's doing better today & on the mend. Thank goodness.

My neighbor found me a vet, left his family to drive us there, & waited for an hour ... on his birthday!

My Christmas neighbor sure is a kind person.

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What a great neighbor. Glad your fur baby is better.  Hard to find a vet.

Even our pet ER is hard to get into when my fur baby was sick.

My baby is 18 and things are starting, but she is still eating.

[San Antonio Gal]

@Desert Lily  - God bless your neighbor.  What a kind and wonderful person he is.  So glad you sent him a thoughtful gift.

I'm very happy your baby is on the mend.  Just like other posters already stated, why didn't your vet have a backup?  I hope you mention this to his office.  You may need to start going to this new vet.  

Thanks for sharing.

[conlt]

@Desert Lily That is a wonderful neighbor. Thank God he was there for you and your baby. 

[1Snickers]

  @Desert Lily   You are so fortunate to have that neighbor to help with your dog. I'm glad she's better!

    I wonder if that neighbor could refer me to his dentist? Yesterday after taking a bite of a cookie it was crunchy,and I realized it was my broken tooth! 
    I talked to my dentists answering machine yesterday and again today. She's on holiday until Monday! The recording asked to leave my phone number if it's an emergency for a return call. I did, and again this morning. 
     I've been going to her about 50 years and if an appointment isn't available Monday I'll call another. If they take my insurance! 
                   🏘️👤❣️

[We rescue cats]

What a tremendous person and an extra special vet, so glad that you found help. I so loved our vet, but it seems that times are changing and so are ideals. I went to a 'home visiting' vet for several years but she got too busy and so she started having in office hours with only a few home visits that were basically euthanasia, when she stopped having evening hours I had to find a new vet. I needed an avian vet and found our current vet who was getting ready to open up a clinic, we were her 3rd client, she was so proud to have registered Maine Coon show cats as patients. That was probably 12+ years ago. She went from being the only vet with a few techs to having 5 vets plus techs back to just herself and her daughter who is a large animal vet. So we are now back to 3-4 month apointments unless one pays the additional fee ($50-80) to get in earlier. . . 

Our Fred is once again having an issue and our little girl  senior citizen is having issues-constant hunger, crying and needs her teeth checked since it seems she cannot chew the kibble. So I just called my prior vet Thursday, and she or her associate will see them on Monday. She's further away so I won't be burning any bridges...yet.