I swear tomorrow I'm going to completely snap on the Emergency Vet clinic here in my county. I told Shelli all about this earlier, but I'm getting really worked up. In March of this year both my dogs (Lilly & Jasmine) were attacked in my fence by a random dog. How it got in there, I don't know unless it jumped the fence. My dogs were hurt bad trying to defend themselves against this animal. If it weren't for my nieghbors, Lilly my 11 year old Dalmation would have been hurt badly. My Lab, Jasmine protected Lilly and got hurt too. My Dad took them to the E.R. vet in town and I left work and went there. The vet gave me the impression that Lilly could die from these injuries. She is my baby!!! I've had her since her birth and she has outlasted every man in my life! They told me that they could save her and that her quality of life would be the o.k. The estimated bill was $1,000. I thought nothing of it and signed the papers....wouldn't you? I paid with the money I had saved up for my studio and never complained. She is my baby and all the blood on her white furr made it look so bad. She was walking on her own and consious, but of course I was very scared. My lab Jas needed stitches in three gashes on her legs (that was all) and the estimate was $400. Barry paid it over the phone by credit card and never complained. Again, Jas is our other baby and we love her. They were both treated and released hours later and I stayed home for a few days to care for them. I received pain meds and antibiotics for each dog. When I took them both for their follow up apt with our regular vet I told him what happened and about the price. He went NUTS! He wrote down all of their injuries and said it shouldn't have cost up more than $500-600 for BOTH dogs!!! He said what they charged me was ridiculous and embarressing and that they should be ashamed. He said Lilly would never have died from her injuries because they were only surface wounds and no internal damage was done. He took it to the vet board in town and filed a complaint against them. He couldn't get me any money back, but at least someone stood up for us. A few months later they sent me a bill in the mail for "additional medical services" for $240! This is bulls***! I refused to pay them and for the past month they have been calling me and leaving nasty message about this effecting my credit. Well, tomorrow me and the fiance are going up there and I'm going to snap! My regular vet told me to threaten to turn them into the N.C. vet association and to the Better Business Bureau and that's exactly what I'm going to do. And I might not just threaten, I might just freakin do it! I'm pissed and I told my sweet fi that if me showing my a** was going to embarress him then he'd better stay in the car! I don't do good at holding back my emotions and this has pushed me to the edge. I'm a very blunt woman and this is going to be war!!!Am I overeacting here???Thanks girls for letting me vent and everyone that read all the details of this please treat yourselves to a big alcoholic beverage!!!