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Couple spends $25,000 to save cat

Posted by: 3AW Radio | 10 September, 2010 - 10:45 AM

A Preston couple has spent $25,000 and put their lives on hold to save the life of their cat.

Six-year-old former stray, Il Gato, underwent brain surgery after suffering encephalitis, meningitis and two heart attacks.

Charmion and Mark Phillips spent their house deposit savings, cancelled a holiday and delayed having children to pay their vet bills.

Charmion has also given up her job to be a full-time carer for the moggy.

She admits some may think they've gone too far.

How far would you go to save your pet?

Blog comments

Justine thank you for sharing your story, he was a very special horse.

janet page Sunday 12 September, 2010 - 1:54 PM
I once had a thoroughbred. I bought him from the race-trainer 6 weeks after his first (and last race) and retrained him for eventing. He was an outstanding horse - two professional trainers told me they thought he had international potential. I was asked more times than I can count if I would sell him. I didn't. Unbeknown to me he had a tumour growing inside his head. He was fit and well when I noticed the small bump (I had ridden him at a 3DE 6 weeks earlier), a biopsy came back with metasticised carcinoma. Only days later he was put down on the operating table whilst having surgery to remove it. I saw the whole thing, the cancer was too far gone and the two operating vets dscribed him as "on borrowed time", no treatment was possible. It was heartbreaking. Would I have paid 25 grand to have him treated? Had it been possible and had I had the money I may have. 15 years on I still sometimes dream that he is alive and fully recovered. I greatly regret his early death at age 8. There will never be another like him.

Justine Sunday 12 September, 2010 - 7:15 AM
This is a fine example of the outrageous over-charging by veterinary surgeons, milking grieving pet owners when their decision-making is so affected by emotion. We had exactly this happen recently with our 18-year-old cat - we were manipulated for three days, at a cost of $4,000, while our poor old cat suffered terribly, until we were finally told the truth by Vets who had no vested financial interest.
It's just cruel.

Sarah Chambers Sunday 12 September, 2010 - 1:28 AM
What a terribly cruel thing to put your pet through. A responsible pet owner would have put the cat out of it's misery. It trusts you and you let it down for your own benefit.

Mary Friday 10 September, 2010 - 2:51 PM
Um ,did someone say this was a cat? Fools, LMAO.

Cheryl Friday 10 September, 2010 - 2:43 PM
This is nothing short of shameful.

Luke Friday 10 September, 2010 - 1:47 PM