Where do you draw the line?

I was contacted by a lady the other day whose cat was having allergy issues. She felt that a change of her diet might do her good, and she turned to me for recipe and advice.

I offered even more, to put her in contact with our vet in Vienna whose practice was based on holistic medicine. He has a way of preparing idividual Bach remedies mixture suitable for the needs of every pet.
I confess being sceptic at the time, coming from conventional medical backgroud, but he did wonders for Harski.
Problems is, Vienna is 8 hours drive one way...

I will not share with you what the lady from the beginning of my post decided to do...but the conversation itself made me wonder..How far are we ready to go for our pets?

Harski had skin problems, he was byting and overgrooming the coat on his chest for a while. Even if it was not life treatening condition, we did all we could to help him. It took us several trips to Vienna, change of food (ordering cans from Germany) than when it did not help, switching completely to raw...We even stopped arguing completely in front of him, as we noticed he is sensitive to our disagreements, it was putting him in a state of stress he did not react well to. ( yes, we are Mediterraneans, and we are loud by definition )

The point is, there is no line for us.

We took him as a member of our family - We treat him as a member of the family.

We have learned to respect his little moods and odd ways ( yes, he gets caught by a gremlin once a day and we all play seek and hide around the house with him ) as well as he respects ours ( I love to sleep longer on weekends, he quietly sits and wait without trying to wake me up ). We know him so well that we can recognise if he has not been himself and we can seek help on time...we will write emails, make phone calls, spend hours reading, turn the Earth upside down if we have to but we will get help if he needs it.

He turned our schedule a bit upside down, changed the things we do in free time or we adjusted them so he can fit in. Our appartment has also changed a bit, couple of shelves more, a cat tree...if carefully chosen those things can fit in any style of decoration.
And we are happy, as what he has to give is so much more than what we have had to give away.

I look at the Roses in the whelping box, they have the cutest most innocent faces I have seen for a long time...and I hope for their sake that their new families will not be drawing the line either.