I like pets. in fact i like pets quite a lot! that is why i have two awesome ferrets in flagrant violation of campus housing policies.



a side effect of the housing policies is that the RAs/RDs do a sweep of all the dorms during breaks, like the Fall one going on all this week. i'm out of town to attend my girlfriend's sister's wedding, and i had to dismantle their main cage so i could put them in the travel cage to take with me since the RDs would almost definitely find the ferrets if i left them with one of my roommates.

while i was putting them in the travel cage - which they don't really like! - one of them tried to stick his head out of the door, it was dark in the room since i was doing it at 6 in the morning, and i shut the door on poor anya's hand and now she has a broken finger. now she has a horrible limp and sometimes she cries while in her hammock and jesus i am a terrible pet owner. also today i shut a door on her head but that's an unrelated issue.

there was no time to take her to a vet until tomorrow morning when we can drop her off at the vet hospital near my girlfriend's house to get it looked at. is it typical that the place charges a 100 dollar non-refundable deposit for emergency dropoffs? i have to pay it, yeah, but it seems excessive and the only experience i have with pet health problems is when my pacu rotted alive in its tank when i was 14 because i didn't understand carbon buildup in water necessitating switching out a gallon a day and the one time our springer spaniel got drunk. i know nothing about dealing with vets and i am nervous. am i going to drop it off tomorrow morning and then get a call like WELL... WE PUT THE HAND IN THE CAST, THATLL BE SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS?? are they going to cut off my ferret's finger because bones that small are too hard to fix? help me i am a 19 year old manchild who knows nothing about the world.

i am also curious about whether anyone else here has been in similar situations!! tell us about your PET EMERGENCIES and how you dealt with them.

One time my brother accidentally hit our dog with a golf club during his back swing.

so I beat my brother's ass!

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broken finger is fatal for ferrets(i would know i dissected DOZENS of them while studying at university)

the only thing you can do is kill your ferret with a hammer immediately so it doesn't continue suffering any more

broken finger is fatal for ferrets(i would know i dissected DOZENS of them while studying at university)

the only thing you can do is kill your ferret with a hammer immediately so it doesn't continue suffering any more

it's at like a 90 degree rotated angle, can i just use the hammer to hit it back into place??

One time my brother accidentally hit our dog with a golf club during his back swing.

so I beat my brother's ass!

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i can't even tell when your horrible posts are a shitty attempt at being ironic / trying to lash back at the UNFAIR WAY GW HAS LABELED ME ON THE INTERNET or whether you think you're being genuinely amusing anymore, stop posting.

You could try getting something straight and fairly solid and making a splint by putting it under the ferret's finger and taping it. thats allowing that the ferret won't chew the splint off or something. That should work until you can get it to a vet.

Are you sure its broken? It might just be badly sprained. But you could either pay the 100$ and leave the ferret there or put a splint on and make an appointment which would probably be alot cheaper.

I don't know how much vets charge for broken appendages but I can't imagine it would be more then a couple hundred at most. I doubt they would cut the finger off either...


EDIT: Yeah, if its at a 90 degree angle you need to straighten it and try to splint it so it doesn't hurt itself further

I killed my brother's pet rabbit on accident when I picked it up my dog started barking at it and it started trying to jump around, I held it tighter so it wouldn't fall and hurt itself but it just DIED!

I don't know if it was a heart attack or shock but the damn thing just DIED in my arms for no apparent reason.

wasn't the first time......won't be the last.

I had a cat once I dropped a sofa on it.

It was a write-off so I stood on its head

I had a cat when I was six that had a gaping hole in its side from some infected snake bite or something and my mom had it put down but when I was little yes I saw my cat walking around the house with a 6-inch hole in its side, it was fucking huge.

Also my neighbors poisoned my mean ass goat because he ate their flower bed but we couldn't do anything about it because we didn't have proof and it looked like rattlesnake poisoning symptoms even though it didn't have any bites on it.

I also have a badass cat thats like 13 years old and beat both of my parent's full grown lion chow's asses several times but she leaves at months at a time to go whoring and eat the neighbors food.

Also the mean ass goat's mom got pregnant by the mean ass goat and had like 5 offspring all of which were miscarriages except for one that got crushed by a horse that slept on it a few weeks after it was born.

I had a cat once I dropped a sofa on it.

It was a write-off so I stood on its head

WARNING WARNING: this is NOT original. Mark stole this line from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Do NOT trust GamingW member "Mark."

Busted mother fucker.

Also I had an emergency a couple of weeks ago. I was looking after the house while my parents were in Vietnam, and my mother's dog got hit by a car. She ended up totally fine, except for some grazes, but it still meant a trip to an 24hr animal clinic with my uncle. And that was about $200. She got checked up, injected with some stuff, and prescribed some medicine for 5 days. But everything is fine at least, and you wouldn't really know anything happened!

let the pound catch your ferret and they'll probably fix it up for free and you can get it a few days later and only pay the release fee

let the pound catch your ferret and they'll probably fix it up for free and you can get it a few days later and only pay the release fee

so my girlfriend went to pick it up and guess what the bill was.

the bill was four hundred bucks.

I SPENT 400 BUCKS ON FERRET FINGER SURGERY.

jesus christ i need a drink or six

jesus christ i need a drink or six

if you can afford it

a) start selling weed on campus

b) sell all your textbooks, scan the ones that aren't available online so you still have a copy

that $400 will be back in no time

selling weed is harder then you think.

First off you've got to find a buyer who can get you a steady supply but is still good enough to not get caught

secondly you need to be strict with yourself, if you want a profit you can't be smokin the merchandise

lastly you gotta do the match for every bit you sell and set a reasonable price so that you're MAKING MONEY and yet your weed is still at a desirable price

but if you can obtain a good bit of it from a cheap bulk seller and sell it to other college students discreetly you could probably make some mean dough

the hardest part about selling weed at my school is not selling so much and making so much money that you get armed thugs bashing down your dorm room door and robbing you at gunpoint.

i'm dead serious

Thats why you only do it to fairly close friends and tell them to keep a lid on it or you won't sell them shit

if the thugs don't know you're selling the weed they won't thug you up