#help me pay for my stupid cat's vet bills

[minijenn]

Friendly reminder that after this chapter is finished I'm opening commissions! Keep an eye out for my updated price sheet (and please don't send requests until it gets posted, I won't accept them until it is). I'll be doing writing and art comms this time around!

[meowsogynist]

Whoever said sisters forgive and forget have not met my sister

[neganium]

What is even the point of advertising if no one is fucking biting?? This is only contributing to my stress. Admittedly this would not really change the situation much, nor improve things, but it would alleviate the crucial side-effect of this situation/the fallout. Things are horrible enough as they are, already.

[taraljc]

There is something so, so wrong about the fact that Shadow's vet bill today was $85, but the Uber to and from was $65. However, Dr Margaret (whom I love deeply and with all my heart and nerd love) gave Shadow a thorough once-over and apart from a slightly elevated temperature, and needing to put on some of her lost weight (albeit some of the weight recorded at MedVet likely included the gigantic BEZOAR they removed from her GI tract) pronounced her in excellent condition and very nicely healed up from her surgery. She also decreed Shadow no longer has to wear the banana pants onesie and can resume her carefree life of public nudity!

Whether it was freedom from wearing clothes, or just excited to be home from the vet, she then demolished about a third of a 3 oz can of wet food which brought me stupid amounts of joy because I have been fretting and tying myself in knots over how much she hasn't been eating and drinking even though she has been eating and drinking. I am a fan of please drink more water. All the water. Candice even got her milk that is especially for cats! And she has been eating the milk-flavoured Temptations cat treats. Which, while they should not be her sole source of sustenance, are still calories and still count as far as I'm concerned.

In order to avoid having to pay interest on the $8000 deposit, it's very important that we raise the remaining $5,000 before April 1st. I am further culling my 1:6 scale collection of dolls, miniatures, and diorama furniture which are sold on consignment by the wonderful Pamela at TinyFrockShop.com. So if you are also a 1:6 action figure or doll nerd, there will be great deals to be had on some Holy Grails like Vitra Design Museum replicas, rare convention Poppy Parker dolls, and lots and lots of Re-Ment.

Please help signal boost by reblogging this post, sharing the link to our GFM, and please donate if you can! Every little bit helps, and we appreciate all of you so incredibly much.

[littlestpersimmon]

Hello. Sorry this is a bit stupid. But can any of my followers please help me foot vet bills for my dog Sif. I am hypoglycemic, and I keep a small stash of m&ms in a basket on top of my bed. Last night I didn't notice that a hole had formed on the basket and my dog Sif got in and ransacked my chocolate. I took him to the emergency vet last night, and the medicine and treatment and carfare (we don't have a car) amounted over to 55 or so usd. I still need to get him charcoal just to make doubly sure he is OK, and he already puked.

Fwiw, I'm broke and totally swamped with work. I work two jobs- the other day, our fridge broke, then my dad's cat broke every single plate in our house. And just.. everyone has been having a very hard time . Would super appreciate any help. Thank you so much. Not really sure if this will work since links are broken on tumblr.. but I'm just. So tired. Thank you again

https:// www.paypal.com/paypalme/calebhosalla

[mangoamango]

hello my hand computer pals. If you follow me u probably know I volunteer in my neighborhood helping stray/feral cats and kittens.

Recently I've been helping a contact who had 19 cats in their one bedroom apt. These cats were in.....not great shape, health wise, and animal healthcare in this godforsaken country is expensive as fuck. The caretaker lives paycheck to paycheck, so me + a few other volunteers have been paying for well. Everything. Food, litter, vet bills, various medications etc.

if anyone has a couple bucks to spare to toss towards this truly just. agonizing and sad thing I would be so so SO deeply grateful. Reblogs also are great if you can't do anything else.

I want to offer something in exchange or as a thank u for anyone who donates--I have Immense Photoshop skills and can draw memes or what have you. I can post pictures of kittens??? I can. Make you a logo (day job is graphic design)????? examples below the cut + some more details abt the situation

most of the money is going towards the vet costs, but the rest is going to be for getting this person set up back up in their apt with some new stuff after a thorough deep cleaning, if anyone is curious.

here are some things i can create for u, if you wish:

fanart

photoshopped pet portraits, if anyone would like that

i've also made a bunch of these mountain goats lyrics poster (in the style of @mountainqoats)

stupid memes i have made for my friends* (*tumblr user misterhaderach)

cat tax. i have....so many pictures of kittens (most of them do NOT have my face in them)

if u donate and would like any one of these creations, please just dm me with a screenshot and we'll work it out. thanks for reading. i love u all my hand computer friends

[20dollarlolita]

30 day lolita challenge, day 5)

I'm doing a lolita challenge from 2011. Tag is "20dollarlolita 30daylorlolita challenge" in case you want to black list or follow.

Today is 10 things from your wishlist.

Last year, I got Tailor's Bear and Typewriting Squirrels, which were the last two of my real dream dresses, so this one's a little bit tougher to nail down. I don't do dream dresses, because I feel like that allows me to justify spending way more money on a dress than I normally would. Considering that I have a wide variety of different interests, my hobby budget isn't as big for lolita as some other people's is, so no dream dresses is one of my rules.

But let's shoot and see what we hit. A running theme is going to be "things that I owned and then sold.":

1, This Bodyline piano print. So I got into lolita fashion immediately before being diagnosed with a life-changing lifelong mental illness, and somehow my life got separated into a Before and After of that. There's this tiny little part of my lolita fashion life that was in the Before, and buying this JSK (and matching bag) was one of those Before things. It was also the first lolita item that I sold (to help a friend pay for a dog's vet bill), and I've wanted it back ever since.

2, This weird thing Meta made. I love punk influence and this is one of those things.

3, More embroidered things. I do machine embroidery and digitizing, and I love looking at how things are digitized. I also love the textural element of embroidery versus printing.

4, Shantung Shirring Princess. I once owned regular Shirring Princess, which I traded for something stupid that I immediately regretted and later accidentally destroyed. I want regular shirring princess back to atone for my sins, but the satin version with the chiffon bustle really calls to me. *checks notes* *checks fabric stash* Wait, I have like...20 yards of silk shantung...I'm going to...uh. I'll be back in a couple days.

5, Lolita pajamas and room wear. I can't wear lolita at work but I kind of want to wear it when I sleep. Possibly the very first lolita thing that I ever owned was GLB 21 and there was a pattern for room wear. I've never made that pattern but i really should.

6, Pieces made of less common fabrics. More brocades and velvets and pleather and shiny satin and stuff.

7, I currently have one lolita coat that I've had since like 2011 (another item from The Before, got some very distinct memories of sleeping under that coat because it got cold and I was afraid to tell Housing that it was literally freezing in my room. I wore it when I went to take pictures of nature for the photography class that I failed that term). Here I am wearing it at a 2015 new year's day bonfire. I also wore it to the Bay Area Kei tea party, because it was raining. Every time that it's cold, I have to build a coord around this coat, because it is the only coat I have. I want more. I want more coats. I also once saw an amazing handmade green lolita rain coat and I want that coat, too. I'll never get that coat, but I want that coat. (Also I should probably get some normie coats, because every time it gets cold enough to need a full coat, I have to wear a lolita coord, because this is literally the only coat I own).

8, More prints of cats doing things they shouldn't be doing. Not going to get more specific. Cats being bad, cats being bad at being cats. I want cats doing stuff. Singing in the rain. On a piano. At a tea party. Breaking shit. I need cats.

9, Fat Happy Meal. I LOVE the colors and the way they work with each other, especially the waist ties and the two-tone lace. I also like that the chicken nuggets are wearing santa hats. Also just more savory lolita.

10. I would absolutely love to own a dress that was handmade by someone else. I think that would just be incredibly cool.

[bitchesgetriches]

Hi wise bitches! Recently I had some very unfortunate expenses all at the same time (my stupid car almost croaked and then my cats got very very sick). Luckily everything is fine now and I was able to cover everything, but I had to clean out my emergency fund and put some of the vet bills on a credit card. Now that people are starting to talk about recession and the economy being Not Great, I’m wondering what the smart thing to do is with paying off debt and starting to save again. Credit card first? Saving first? Both at the same time? Help!

So glad your car and kitties are ok now! You made perfect use of your emergency fund and credit card in these emergencies and you should be proud of yourself. We certainly are!

But you're right--this is a tough spot to be in as we enter a recession. Either decision will give you a little security but also leave you a little at risk. If it were me, I'd go into super-frugal mode and split all my extra money equally between both the emergency fund and the credit card.

But personal finance is (say it with me now) PERSONAL. So here's some advice on how to make the right decision for you personally:

How to Make Any Financial Decision, No Matter How Tough, with Maximum Swag 

{ MASTERPOST } Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt 

You Must Be This Big to Be an Emergency Fund 

You’re Saving Too Much Money in Your Emergency Fund... And You Might Not Need It at All 

[x-rds]

[Lio] Sorry just trauma rambling

(Significant animal death and traumatic grief mentions)

I think - the one thing. The one thing that really, truly drove the knife in, is that - my ex had the audacity to ask me to help them pay for an urn, which I did, willingly, because I cared, and because I felt I owed it to him after failing to save him. And yet, despite the vet promising to give them two paw impressions so that we both had something, anything to hold on to, I never, ever saw that.

It feels stupid and petty. A baby isn’t a print on paper. A baby isn’t an urn. He isn’t any physical item any one person can own. But - it’s just - the disrespect. The lack of being given even a shred of chance of closure. The lack of comfort I was given, the lack of care.

I can’t blame them entirely. They bought me food when I was laying despondent and alone in their bed and I couldn’t bring myself to eat anything because it felt wrong for me to eat when he couldn’t anymore. I would not have eaten if they hadn’t done that, at least not yet, I felt so sick mentally and physically, I felt like my lips would decay and fall off from the fact I tried to resuscitate him and failed. I thought I was never going to stop coughing up bile. They were kind enough to get me to eat.

They were kind enough to bring me to their therapist with them. (Although their therapist was fucking useless and just told me they knew ‘he would have been a beautiful cat’ as if that was helpful at fucking all.)

But it ended there. They didn’t comfort me at all as we surrendered his body to the vet. They didn’t comfort me at all when they came home from their family trip, back to their fucking house where I was, alone, where they left me with a goddamn surprise hospice job. And they didn’t know, I can’t blame them for that, they had no way of knowing, but the fact is still that I had to watch a helpless baby creature, that I cared for and loved so much too, that they left me in charge of, that I didn’t sleep for four days watching him every single night and trying to feed him and trying to help him and paying for vet visits and for delivery services to get tools to help him and begging my very kind friend to drive me places to try to help him - crashing and dying in my arms. And they ignored me. They barely said a word to comfort me. I know he was their baby too and they were dealing with other things but he died in MY arms after I didn’t sleep for DAYS and they asked me for MONEY for his URN to keep at THEIR HOUSE and I have NOTHING but a few pictures I cannot bring myself to look at to remember him by. And they gave me almost nothing.

Almost Everything else about this experience that could have possibly been traumatizing was. It was a nightmare. It was hell. My one kind friend was the singular saving grace and everyone else involved was an asshole at best, vets I called in a panic included. It even went so far as to trigger my clairvoyance psychosis because I had a hunch before we got him that it might be too early and something might happen to him and when it did my brain decided every ‘vision’ I had about anyone near me getting sick or dying was certainly true. I begged people not to leave the house. I begged my mom not to get another cat at her house. I cried myself to sleep thinking my uncle was dead because I had a dream he’d been killed when he went shopping.

I know we both suffered I know I know I know. But they got all those little things meant to help soothe their loss and let them move on and I got nothing but horrific nightmares and a fucking emergency vet bill and a paypal request for seventy dollars to buy my fucking ex a little statue for their house to remember the innocent creature I ran myself ragged to save wnd failed when they weren’t even there

I try to remind myself, all the time, that in the end the person he knew longest in his life was me. That there is no little cat toy or urn or paper with paw prints on it that means more to his sad story than me. I alone did everything I had the power to do to save him and I alone hold the memory of his struggling and his end, and I alone had the opportunity and love in me to tear myself apart to try to save him.

But fuck. Man. Would it have hurt anyone if my grief got any sort of consideration? At all?

I didn’t believe I could move on at all, for a week after it happened. I believed I would be stricken with the gaping wound of pain forever. None of my friends, well meaning as they were, were getting through to me - they hadn’t seen it. They weren’t there. They couldn’t judge my sins.

In the end it was Andy who got through to me. He told me: In that moment I was doing everything to try to be a healer. And sometimes, healers lose - but it all would be far worse if they never tried.

So I guess the moral here is thank god for my fucking headmates being there when the people who claim they care about you end up not doing that at all.

[creaturebehavior]

i was like, surely i posted this only an hour ago but i guess it's been three hours now of this toothache

i had it yesterday too

ugghhh this was inevitable but it still sucks. i should probably mention it to my mom before it gets worse but she keeps having to help me pay for my cats vet bills and her expensive cat food and stuff so i just feel bad asking if i can go to the dentist. i've been waiting for my tooth to get bad enough to need to be extracted cuz my insurance will do that for free. but part of me doesn't want to lose a tooth if i don't have to.... but at this point, idk if they can fill it. i would have mentioned earlier but i was going through such a dark depression i didn't realize my mom probably wouldn't mind helping me get a filling with how bad my tooth is. i felt like more of a burden then than i do now. maybe it's not too late to get it filled. but i think it's gotten to the point i would need a root canal i'm not sure. but then, if i do need a root canal i guess that's where my insurance kicks in and they just extract the tooth for me? i'm not sure. dammit. stupid teeth. stupid seroquel dry mouth. stupid weak enamel. stupid severe mental health issues. i wish teeth didn't dissolve and fall apart

my tooth hurts lol

[hixystix]

Moving Assistance

So if you haven't read my other post on the matter, I'm a 36 year old on disability who currently lives in a house owned by my parents. I can't work at this time and I live on disability and food stamps - I get $667 a month to pay all my bills, including the big house bills like property tax and insurance.

A few weeks back, my parents told me they didn't approve of my housekeeping, accused me of hoarding and ruining the house because it's a bit cluttered, and said that they were going to sell the house and they wouldn't help me find somewhere to go unless I cleaned the house up before the sale.

Well, I took them at their word. They are incredible neat freaks (think vacuuming three times a day, hand cleaning floors at least once a day, not allowing ANYTHING to be out and visible) and there's no way I personally could manage to keep the house the way they want, so I found a new place to live - in Wisconsin, with my friend @archangelsanonymous.

Everyone who knows me has encouraged this move to get away from my parents. My therapist practically did a happy dance! My parents have been manipulative and controlling my entire life, and have actively worked to hobble me when I try to do stuff on my own. They've plainly stated their goal is to have control of all my finances and legal decisions because they don't approve of the way I budget my money.

When I told them about my decision, they laughed and told me I was stupid, tried to convince me they never threatened to sell the house, tried to paint this as me running away instead of just acceding to a reasonable request, tried to turn me against my friend, then started making up events that never happened to convince me I'm not thinking clearly and I should back out of the move.

I'm not going to back out. This will be good for me.

The plan is for me to move at the end of August 2022. I am taking the time before then to try and plan as much as possible.

I'll figure out a way to make this happen, one way or another, but it would be a hell of a lot easier if I had some help. I'm certainly not going to get any from home.

I will need movers for the furniture at either end, because I'm not physically capable of moving this stuff by myself. Depending on if my parents decide to take back my car or not, I'll need to rent a moving truck or pay for someone else to drive said truck. I will need to pay for gasoline to get from here (Alabama) to Wisconsin. If possible, I need to get my cats their shots before we move in with two other cats and so I'm ready to get them licenses in Wisconsin.

...and I'm probably forgetting something huge, but that's the brain fog caused by my meds for you. I'll update this post if I think of anything.

If you can help at all, even by reblogging this, it would be amazing. I have a few different methods of money transfer, so if you'd like to use something other than paypal, message me and I'll give you usernames.

If it works for you, however, I can be found here: http://paypal.me/hixystix.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and thank you even more for sharing it!

Update 9/26:

So it's been a while and shit happened to keep me from moving - dates that didn't work out, family illnesses, that sort of thing. I even lost $250 on deposits for a truck and movers, but ah well.

The new dates - checked and confirmed on both ends - are October 27-28. Pack up here and drive up on the 27th, unpack on the 28th.

This has been an ordeal, but it's going to happen. I'm going to get out. Any help is still appreciated, although I fully understand that you're probably tired of hearing about this!

As of now, I spent about $350 on vet bills to get my cats up to date on their shots. I spent $250 on those deposits I lost. I ended up owning about $100 more on utilities this month than I'd planned for and now I have an extra month to pay for as well.

The trailer I want to rent will cost about $230 for a one-way trip. Movers on this end are at about $80/+tip on the cheap end. Gas is... well, who knows what gas will be for both my SUV and my dad's truck towing the trailer. I'll also be in charge of food.

I'll make this work, one way or another. But it's nice to have a date to look forward to again and not feel like I'm gonna be stuck here forever.

[jonphaedrus]

HELLO, THE TUMBLR. it is i, USER JONPHAEDRUS, coming to you live because the vet bills for my cat with problems diseases are VERY BIG and VERY UNSEXY and pet insurance IS SLOW AS HELL so I am taking COMMISSIONS to pay off my CREDIT CARD DEBT.  would you like me to EDIT YOUR BOOK? would you like me to produce for you WEIRD NICHE PORNOGRAPHY? would you like me to help you GET INTO COLLEGE OR GRAD SCHOOL? i am very good at that thing 100% of the application essays i’ve edited have led to people getting into their top school of choice and i am not making that statistic up. i am A PROFESSIONAL EDITOR and i don’t currently have a job because of stupid reasons but i do have A CAT who HAS A LOT OF PROBLEMS

WHAT? I’LL WRITE OR EDIT FOR YOU. FANFICTION! YOUR RESUMES! HOW MUCH? 5¢ PER WORD OR $25 AN HOUR HOW CAN I SIGN UP? CHECK OUT THIS LINK! WHY ARE YOU IN ALLCAPS? I DON’T KNOW. WHAT WILL YOU WRITE? TRY ME, I GUESS. MY MOST POPULAR FIC WAS A COMMISSION WHERE I ROLLED THE DICE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PAIRING WOULD BE. WHERE ARE YOUR SAMPLES? CHECK OUT THIS LINK!

[shensation]

If anyone wanted to donate to my kofi that would help me a lot, I gotta pay my $700 vet bill for some STUPID ASSHOLE CAT who decided he would LITERALLY RATHER STARVE TO DEATH than eat diet cat food and NOW hes malnourished, dehydrated and has liver problems, out of SHEER SPITE.

WE ARE FORCE FEEDING HIM WET CAT FOOD WITH A SYRINGE because this monster decided he would rather DIE than go on a fuCKING DIET

help is appreciated thank you

https://ko-fi.com/A315VVA

[werewolffem]

i don't want to but i am desperate and running out of options. i am not able to get any more fast checks from work and all my bills are piling up on me and i cannot find any extra money, i haven't even bought groceries for more than 3 months. i have even tried getting money from men but being a uhhhh lesbian and men being stupid, i just...can't do it.

i have to get my cat to the vet. she is constipated and i have attempted other things that could work/trying to minimize any hairball issues she could have which included shaving her and bathing her and hairball treats and whatnot but nothing is seeming to work so i need to get her to a vet.

this is ohime. you can tell her coat is long which i am thinking caused some hairballs to constipate her.

there is a relatively cheap vet here though in a smaller town that has good work. i am trying to get an extra $100-$150 so i can pay for the treatment she needs. even if you can't help if you could help boost around and maybe someone could possibly help?

my venmo is @dezzih or paypal.me/dezzi3 or cash app is $dezzih3

thank you!

[kokokitty]

Hey everyone. It's me, the walking disaster again. After getting my hours cut due to the holiday period ending, I got a little behind on bills due to having to climb out of debt from not having a job for a few months last year after complications from a car accident made it hard to work.

With my most recent check being smaller (as expected) due to my hours being cut (down to like 22 hours a week), I managed to have enough to pay my past due utility bill and my car insurance but that left me with very little which I used for some gas, a few groceries, and I now have like $20 to try to last like 2 more weeks.

I mostly need about $60 to pay towards my phone as I had finally caught up but couldn't pay my most recent bill (that's GREAT tho as I was almost 2 months behind!!!) and then I have $400 due for rent and won't be getting my next check until a few days AFTER rent is due (rent is due the 5th). I'm just going to suck up and pay utilities late again so I'm not worried about that.

The good news is that my hours picked up some. This week will be close to full time (probably right around 40 hours) and last week I should've had close to 40 but had to take a day off after suffering an emotional and mental breakdown due to still being upset from my high school best friend unexpectedly dying and my massive bitch of a boss being severely emotionally and mentally abusive at work (she literally hasn't taught me ANYTHING and when I don't do something 100% to standards that I don't know because she hasn't taught me she yells at me and tells me how I'm stupid and can't do my job). So I literally had a massive breakdown on my way in and had to go home.

If you can help with ANYTHING my Paypal is Viva.la.revolution.now@gmail.com and Venmo and Cash are KierraSP

Even the smallest bit helps with gas and whatnot and I'll definitely be needing the help with more shifts my way! Thank you all so much! I'm getting super close to knocking out a few debts and can focus on the massive debt my cat's vet bills got me hopefully soon!

[starsmuserainbow]

So, uh, small cat-update here.

Things still are going bad. More tests and all have been made by now, we got some other pills (and a fluid too) and are trying that since yesterday, but well. Doesn’t really look like it’s gonna be the cure yet. We got a bill of a part of the treatments already, it’s around 300€ (I’m not gonna bother converting this), and that’s a hecking big sum for... basically for nothing. Which I don't intend as speaking against the vet, I’m sure she does all she can and in the right order and all, but just, it took a lot of my saved money and it’ll mean I’ll much earlier be left without money for liivng. Which isn’t as bad as it might sound to you, don’t worry, I’ll be alright, we’ll just have to... like, only eat cheap things like idk, noodles, bread and butter, or whatever. I just... I don’t mind paying if he’s helped, but it feels like the money is just out for nothing and our cat still lies here, barely eating or drinking, barely doing stuff either, just... suffering. I’m still hoping for the things we give him at the moment, if these don’t work he’ll have to go to the vet yet again, and... I just hate how this is going. I really wish for him to get well again, but... I fear he might not, and me and my mom can’t do much but give him the stuff and hope he betters, and watch him meanwhile decline most if not all offers of food or the like.

I think my mom’s gonna call the vet now, maybe we’re gonna bring him in today still - a bit stupid as my mom has an appointment tomorrow and we won’t be able to get him back or drive him somewhere in the early day, but yeah, we’ll see. Yeah she just called, we’ll hear for an appointment sometime during the next days or so. And I really hope it’s gonna bring a solution for us, even though I don’t feel too convinced of that.

The time just sucks at the moment.