[QUOTE=These were my boys - I still miss them!
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Awww witherbee, your boys were gorgeous! Tuxedo cats as my friend calls them. Hugs to you.
What I took from this thread is that you shouldn’t be afraid to discuss anything with your vet regardless of the outcome. This alone would make me look for a new one. We had a very bad situation with a stray cat and my previous vet and left b/c of it (after 10 years…loyalty meant nothing).
Our new vets are great. We have three cats and two of them have some health issues. Lexie has bad hips and Joey has chronic breathing problems. With Lexie, our vet gave us all the options for the problem and we selected the best course to take given her current health, her age, and her happiness.
With Joey, it’s been a constant conversation between us to figure out dosages of steroids and broncodilators, etc. A year and a half in, we finally have him on a maintenance program. He was a little bugger b/c the days he was really, really bad, we’d take him in and by the time he got to the vet, he’d be breathing normal again. Not like he was drowning in his own fluids! Argh! Good thing they are cute as heck lol!
So, that’s what’s important to us. Give us all our options, the pro’s and con’s of each and we’ll make the right decision based on that and the pet in question. Still sometimes it’s not easy, but I truly believe after all options are exhausted, it is often the pet that tells YOU what you need to do. I’ve lost enough to know that look in their eye. As long as I don’t see that look, I know to keep trying (realistically of course).
Just my two cents to this 
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