Many if not most of us own dogs, cats, or other pets and when emergency care is needed nothing is available in the whole county after 5PM. Stories of animals suffering over the weekend are legend. Yet efforts to obtain some sort of after-hours emergency care have fallen flat.
The standard line seems to be that it's a stressfull business to begin with and nobody wants to work evenings or weekends. While it's true that ranchers are used to delivering calves and colts what do the rest of us do with household pets with convulsions and bleeding?
From a business point of view they should charge for the extra effort of answering a midnight call. And most of us would pay the surcharge with no hesitation.
But it's not offered. In fact, most offices have no after hours phone numbers and the result is that animals suffer.
We know of one case where a terminal dog convulsed over an entire weekend only to die in the owner's arms just minutes before the office opened as they waited in the car outside the door.
Can't we work out some rotation or on-call service? We have approached the Siskiyou Humane Society which is most interested in this . .. I mean, what is more 'humane' than preventing this kind of needless suffering?
If you support this idea please email me. We need to do something.
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