QUALITY OF LIFE
There's a time with our pets when we go FROM doing anything and everything we can to keep our pets healthy TO maintaining quality of life... Our pet is Blue, a 19 1/2 year old female blue russian c...
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Code2High wrote:
Someday, though, things may be a little different.They're doing stem cell treatments for arthritis in animals
and I looked up stem cell therapy for kidney disease in cats and that's already being done as well. Still abit out of reach for a lot of us
, but once it becomes more common the cost might come down. It just makes you wonder what will be possible in the future.
It's already here! We have been using stem cells treatments in horses for some time now. And it WORKS! And it is NOT expensive. But that said my horse vet bill, meds, etc are FAR cheaper than the exact same at a dog clinic.
If you find an Equine Clinic that also has a dog clinic you can benefit from a lot of the cutting edge stuff before you're local vet.
Albeit sadly most local vets won't ever even entertain the idea of new procedures, usually because they don't have the time to further their education on an on going basis.
