That seems like an an awful lot for an amputation. I can only assume it was unusually complex for some reason. I went that route on a cat of mine that developed a fibrosarcoma on her foot. It was definitely south of a grand, several hundred I think ( of course I spent a lot more total, what with a visit to an oncologist and all - maybe $1500-1800 all told ).
It appears I’m mildly allergic to cats (I’m slightly allergic to all kinds of plants and trees, so springtime is a bitch for me). I have two cats, and one of them drools when she’s extremely happy and being petted hard like the attention whore she is. I don’t get any allergic reactions unless her drool drips on me or she wipes it on me. I always get raised bumps like a typical allergic reaction. She’s the second cat I’ve ever had that’s been a drooler, and the first one never gave me problems like that.
Reminds me of a story of a friend of mine who moved from a small farm in Illinois to NYC. She lived there several years and one day, she went and bought a cat.
She called home and said, “Mom, I bought a cat today and it is so cute and…”
“You BOUGHT a cat?!” was the sound she heard screaming from that little farm in Illinois - where paying money for a cat was simply unheard of.
She couldn’t get another word in as she heard her mother yell to her dad and sisters in the next room at the farmhouse, “She BOUGHT a cat!”
It was big news in that farming community.
Stupid city folk.
I found out yesterday that my stepmother paid $6,000 to have a bichon frise puppy imported from France. Even more bizarrely, she couldn’t get the dog shipped to her home in Knoxville, no, she had to drive to Philly to pick it up.
Better yet, she had a couple of people at the office assigned to the Very Important Task of coming up with business reasons why she needed to be in Philly - site visit, client visit, anything. Since the nearest site was 350 miles away and the nearest client was 200 miles away, it was an impossible task to begin with - I truly feel sorry for the people who had to report their “failure” to that bitka.
Best of all are the amount of baby toys she bought for the thing. You know those seats you can buy for babies that are about 6-months - to - walking: they’re on wheels and the kid can move himself around in it using his legs? She bought one for the dog. Even though it walks perfectly fine.
She’s going broke and it’s pure schadenfruede to see, I can tell you.