My Dog Needed a $6,000 Surgery to Save Her Life. I Didn’t Pay.

Nov 27, 2016, 10:59 PM

At 2 a.m. Wednesday morning my wife drove our nearly 14 year-old miniature dachshund to a 24-hour vet 30-minutes from our house. Thirteen hours later we sat in the veterinarian's exam room and told her we weren't going to pay $6,000 for an emergency gall-bladder surgery for our dog. Twenty-minutes later Chloe was gone.

Her death was a complete shock.