Unfiltered Story #96679

When I was younger, we had this beautiful long haired orange tabby named Pumpkin. He was not a nice cat. He would hiss and scratch and bite everyone who came close… except for my sister, who was about four at the time. He adored her. She could lay on top of him, and he would do nothing. One night she completely covered him in Vaseline, and he just sat there and let it happen.
One day, we took him to the vet for a routine checkup. They gave him his shots, as per usual. However, there was a new vet tech giving the shots. She messed up, and hit a nerve (at least thats the explanation that 11 year old me received). We didn’t know this at the time, though, because he didn’t show symptoms just yet.
The next day my little sister got home from school and went looking for her cat, only to find him sitting on a chair in the basement, having a severe seizure. We rushed him back to the vet to find out what was wrong, and they charged us an extremely high copay to look at him and say nothing was wrong, even though he had not stopped seizing all day. They told us it was temporary and it would stop, and not to worry.
The next day, he was still seizing. We brought him back to the vet, and they charged us AGAIN, to say the exact same thing. So we left, and brought him to a pet emergency room half an hour away. They took one look at him and, appalled, asked why we hadn’t done anything sooner. They immediately rushed him to the back to run tests, and kept him overnight.
He ended up staying at that hospital for three more nights, his seizures getting worse and worse each day. It hit the point where he could do nothing but lay there, crying, as his entire body was racked by violent convulsions. The vets told us there was nothing else they could do for him, and we had to put him down.
The kicker? They told us that if we had brought him in sooner, they might have been able to save him. They explained to us the issue had been originally caused by the routine shot he had received at our normal vet’s office. So, it could have been avoided with proper training and less laziness on our vet’s part.