SO and I spent $330 at the vet yesterday. I don't know if I'm overreacting to the shock of the bill or if I need to stand my ground and calmly start a discussion about ground rules for handling shared expenses that come up unexpectedly. Our dog had a really small appetite for several days and had not been pooping regularly. Also low energy, and scratching himself a bunch. Even though he's almost 2 he still sometimes tries to get into the bathroom and eat toilet paper out of the trash, which he did this week.

SO wanted to go to the vet on about the second day we noticed the not eating/pooping and all the scratching. I said we should hold off and I boiled chicken for our dog and took him on some long walks to give him plenty of opportunity to go to the bathroom (which he did, but still not enough). We also bathed him and checked him for fleas, but he kept scratching.

So yesterday he threw up before I left for work, which I texted SO about, and she decided to work from home all afternoon to be with him. Well around 4 she calls and says she found fleas on him, and wanted to take him to the vet. I said ok. Because she mentioned the eating paper to them, they wanted to do x-rays. The x-rays didn't turn up anything serious like an intestinal blockage or anything, but they did think he was constipated so they gave him a suppository and a medicine to kill the fleas. They also sold her a 3 month supply of heart guard medicine, and the total came to $330. I told my SO that I wish we had just bought a liquid enema and called for dosing recommendations based on his breed/weight and handled the fleas ourselves. MY SO wanted the certainty of talking to a professional, but I can't help but feel that they ultimately didn't find anything we couldn't have dealt with at home.