This is a question that really has no right or wrong answer; there is no need to be sorry about being unable to afford such a great cost to save a pet. The question certainly invokes strong emotions, and it is understandable that it would be a difficult decision to have to make.

Perhaps a fairer question, also a question that might reveal more insight into how people who answer feel about their pets place in theirs or their family’s lives.
If you could afford $3,000.00 to spend on saving your pets life would you spend the money to do so? Is $3,000.00 to much money to spend on a pet or not?

If $3,000.00 dollars meant that my family or I would suffer and perhaps be devastated by spending it on our pet, then I would say that the human members of my family come first. How many people have been faced with this same dilemma with human loved ones and just could not afford to help their human loved ones?

I would say that if I was faced with this scenario, and I could not afford the money, I would do all I could to try and find a way to get the $3,000.00 needed to save my pet. I would ask and beg people I know or don't know for any assistance they could give. I would get a part-time job and try to get money if necessary.

It’s simple to answer if I could afford it, of course I would pay the money to save my pet. The operative word here is ‘save’. I was faced with a similar decision a few years ago, when my Sammy, our Golden Retriever, a beautiful, caring and constant companion to my entire family became sick. We spent close to $2,000.00 in tests, medicines etc to keep Sammy as comfortable as we could. The choice was presented, they could operate on Sammy and stop the immediate internal damages (his blood vessels were ballooning and bursting) but that would only extend his life by mere months and they could only do it once or twice before he would eventually pass away. Our decision, was to spend the money to keep him comfortable and to care for him without putting him through surgeries that would buy us no more real time with him as he would be in hospital and the convalescence and so we opted to spend as much time with Sammy as we could and then as a family when Sammy deteriorated to the point that he was leaving us, we all quietly sat with him as we had him euthanized by our vet.

Sammy's ashes now sit on the mantle by my home office desk.