Thanks so much! 
And thanks for the condolences. She was a pretty old girl, but had a good life. Still miss her now and then.
Of course I will do a cartoon for you! Do you mean a moose surfing the message boards?
Whoops, also, looks like both Mama Zappa and silenus’s orders got through - I have a confirmation for both SDMB2007042312010804650101 and SDMB200704231201804650101. My new expiry date is 07-05-2009. Haha, cool! Thanks heaps folks!!
Silenus, just send me an email on what cartoon you’d like.
Thanks for the offer anyway! I really appreciate it.
Outlandish is $150 for a full body x-ray of a 0.5lb rat. That doesn’t include the $40 for the appointment itself and $62 for the medication. 
I wanted to have her cremated after she died, but they said it would cost $500. :eek: For an itty bittie rattie? No way.
Crikes! The Chicago Reader oughta be in the cremation biz, instead of f*ing around with these small-potato resubscriptions. If they promised to cremate your rat/cat/snake/dog/loved one/ for even $150/burn, they’d get rich.
Hey, Little Ed. I think there’s an idea here.
And, on a more serious note, I want to sincerely praise the members who have volunteered to sponsor others who can’t currently resubscribe. Seriously. All of you make me proud to be a member of a board like this.
But of course Typo Knig and I have always loved mooses (meese?). They’re just such goofy looking animals. And being the Straight Dope addicts we are, we’d treasure such a thing.
Hell not only that we have people fighting to resubscribe other members. AFG got resubed twice with Vetbridge stepping in to batting clean up if needed.
Good group of people here.
Does this mean we have Brownie points in reserve in case we fuck up sometime in the future (he asked innocently)? Or does it just mean you will feel a momentary and completely fleeting twinge when you ban us?
-cackle-
You know those elements on the Periodic Table that have only existed for less than 1/250,000,000,000,000th of a second in a linear accelerator? That’s an eternity next to how long that twinge would last.
Still… the idea bears merit. Re-up a Doper and gain a Get Out Of Banjail Free Card.
I like it.
Consider it done! I’ll just need you to email me your address and I’ll send you one (flat) moose.
The last two years I’ve been lucky enough to be sponsored, now I get to pass it on! I’m good for one membership renewal; my email’s in my profile.
:eek: Wow. That stuff varies a good bit with location, but that still sounds high. In my neck of the woods, the radiograph would have run you $45, the appointment $30, and cremation $40. In some areas cremation is regulated a good bit by the environmental people, maybe that has an effect.
I just got a $950 Credit Card bill, 3X normal. Covers expenses from around Mom’s death.
Gotta withdraw my offer.
Yeah, the prices I quoted are in Canadian $$ though. So I’m sure there’s a difference there…my vet is the only one in my town that accepts exotics patients, too. I went to so many that wouldn’t take rats before I found my current vet. No idea why the cremation was so much. Maybe they need to use a special miniature retort for rats or something? 
Now that we’re getting so close to the Charter Member deadline, is there anyone who isn’t covered? Please post - it looks like I’m not the only potential sponsor without a client.
I must preface this by saying that I am very sorry for your loss, but these outlandish prices remind me of an old joke:
A man runs into the vet’s office carrying his dog, screaming for help. The vet rushes him back to an examination room and has him put his dog down on the examination table. The vet examines the still, limp body and after a few moments tells the man that his dog, regrettably, is dead.
The man, clearly agitated and not willing to accept this, demands a second opinion. The vet goes into the back room and comes out with a cat and puts the cat down next to the dog’s body. The cat sniffs the body, walks from head to tail poking and sniffing the dog’s body and finally looks at the vet and meows. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the cat thinks that your dog is dead too.”
The man is still unwilling to accept that his dog is dead. The vet brings in a black Labrador. The lab sniffs the body, walks from head to tail, and finally looks at the vet and barks. The vet looks at the man and says, “I’m sorry, but the lab thinks your dog is dead too.”
The man, finally resigned to the diagnosis, thanks the vet and asks how much he owes. The vet answers, “$650.” “$650 to tell me my dog is dead?” exclaimed the man… “Well,” the vet replies, “I would only have charged you $50 for my initial diagnosis. The additional $600 was for the cat scan and lab tests.”
I’m sorry if this joke comes under the category of “too soon”.
I sent you an email.
Thanks,
~LV
Manx,
Disregard this message and my email.
My paypal cleared.
Thanks,
~LV
I liked it.
Hate to ask, but can anyone sponser me at this late date?