• pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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    8 months ago

    To be fair, I’d rather put my dog down than put it through chemo.

    Humans can understand the agony is for a reason. Your pet can’t. Don’t keep your pets alive for yourself.

    Also, is it really so shitty for a publication to provide tips on cutting costs when the economy is in the shitter? Im sure most news sites are barely hanging on by a thread, so it’s not like they’re benefiting from the economy being fucked.

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        8 months ago

        This. The primary goal of chemotherapy in pets is to minimize symptoms to improve their quality of life. It’s nowhere near the high dosage that humans undergo in order to completely eradicate their cancer.

        My cat is technically on chemotherapy. She gets a pill 3 times a week and a blood test every 3 months to check that it isn’t causing issues with her bone marrow.

        So far, no symptoms. Without it, she’d probably have died a year and a half ago. When I used to hear about a pet getting chemo, I had a mental image of a really sick pet, but it’s pretty much the opposite.

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      8 months ago

      Yes, it is, and you’re a huge bootlicker for trying to side with fucking Bloomberg, of all sources.