Are some Vets frauds? What gives them the right to charge you through the roof?

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Here's the thing, my dog became sick so suddenly that no one knew what had happened. He went into the vet's office the next week for a hurt leg that kept getting worse. The vet called it off as a muscle that has been over strained, but yet she still didn't know exactly what was wrong with him. The next week he goes back into the vet hospital, the condition getting worse. She looked at him once more, doing the same thing that she did the first visit and comming up with the same solution charging us for her time. She gave him some pain medication and sent us on our way. A week after that, we are getting frusterated because we have no clue what's going on, we take him back in telling them that he's doing good on the medication but still the condition isn't letting up or getting better at all. So what does she do??? She takes some blood, and x-rays. How much does she charge us?? 400$ for something that he really needs. It doesn't even cost a human 400$ just to get blood taken and x-rays done. When the results come back she says the same exact thing that she said the other two times; just a muscle condition but she grows more concerned because he keeps on losing weight so she recomends that we switch his food to something with more protein to help him gain his weight back. The next time we bring him in, under her request, she tells us that she wants to recheck his blood, urine, and shoulder. We allow her to do the blood and urine. They have him for the whole day and they charge us 356$ for all that. The next day, the vet calls us saying that our animal is very sick and needs etreme medical attention. He needs to go in for a aultrasound, more x-rays, and a whole bunch of other tests, so we do them. They costed us 600$ for that and 100$ for talking to the surgeon over the results and didn't even tell us that they were going to charge us. It turns out that our dog has a tumor in his shoulder connecting to his spine and it's effecting his kidneys making them shut down, when all she wrote it off to be was a simple muscle problem. Now the vet wants us to give him surgery that we can't afford, she wants us to come up with 2,000$ and pay it in full right then and there. We can't afford that, so we're keeping him on the pain meds to see how he will handle himself till we can come up with the money. We come accross Friday evening and our dog runs out of meds, we call the vet and they tell us that they can't get them re-filled until Tuesday because it's a holiday weekend. What is with that!!! That's not right! How dare they call themselves a vet hospital if they can't even help my animal! All they are doing is charging us so much money that we can't even make the house payment for this month, but hey, our dog's worth it. So here we are on Sunday and our dog can't even walk wihtout whining, or move for that matter without screaming in pain and they want us to wait!? All they had to say for themselves was "Sorry" after we asked, "So you're going to make him suffer?". They also put him on a special food after finding out that the protein is what's hurting his kidneys even more. This food they are charging us $1.76 Per can. That adds up. This food is apparently a perscription food and needs a written perscription to buy. The vet never told us that! We had to find out through someone else when we tried to buy a can because now he's out of food. They want us to wait till Tuesday for that too! He'll starve. This is bull! Charging us through the god dang roof and not even helping him at all! Is that right? Is that right at all? All they do is charge and charge but never actually help our animal. It's extremely frusterating to see my baby be in so much pain and not being able to do anything about it. What.. are they going to wait till he has to be put down to give us another option? This is so wrong that now I don't trust any vet with my animals, everyone is so expensive. Is it right for them to charge so much for something that is needed greatly?