5 Reasons a Cat Playpen Will Save You Money

Posted by Bob Newman

Next to conventional veterinary bills for checkups, shots and deteriorating health, accidents and eating the incompatible things will skyrocket your veterinarian bills! An indoor cat playpen will not only keep your feline friend safe but also pay for itself many times over in savings of hard earned cash. It will also cut back on the potential vexation or exacerbation caused by our inquisitive furred dependants. Reach your local veterinarian for costs as the ones shown below will vary.

1. Though a cat will tend to move away from strong smelling items they none the less can get into troublesomeness with these substances. Automatic dishwasher detergents, fabric softener sheets, mothballs, home made play dough, cigarettes or even your favorite potpourri are all extremely toxic to your cat. If you find your cat has ingested any of these you will get to the veterinarian as immediate as you can.

Cost: Office visit-minimum $50, Injections to possibly counteract the toxin-minimum $50, Extended stay for infirmary care-minimum $15/day.

2. You could put your cat in the garage while you are away. Cats are fastidious and if they walk through oil, gasoline, insecticide or fertilizer, they will lick themselves to get clean, and ingest these toxins. You may catch them and take them to be treated or you may not get to them in time.

Cost: Office visit-minimum $50, Injections/enemas to possibly counteract the toxin-minimum $50, Extended stay for hospital care-minimum $15/day.

3. Sometime in the past you, the previous owner or your landlord may have put out some mouse bait and forgotten about it. It is guaranteed your cat will find things you didn’t remember leaving and eat the mouse bait, or the affected mouse itself, which will cause internal hemorrhage. This is serious! You may not know about it for some time as your cat roams at will while you are asleep or out of the house.

Cost: Office visit-minimum $50, Multiple vitamin K shots to counteract the blood thinner-minimum $80, Extended stay for hospital care-minimum $15/day.

4. You are house painting or having somebody to paint your house and the curious cat walks through paint on the drop cloth or dabbles in the paint roller tray. You already know the cat will lick their paws to clean them and you can near count on the fact that they will walk on something that will be impossible to bring back to original condition due to the fine set of painted cat tracks drying on the fabric or finish. Do you clean the cat with mineral spirits? Surely not! It is bad enough you have to breathe the fumes and wear protective gloves when you clean up as best you can. You most assuredly don’t want this chemical passing into your cat’s system through their paws or skin. If it is water base paint, wash them immediately, though it may not be the most pleasant experience you have that day. After you have cleaned them, then tackle the cat tracks on your floor, couch or rug, but get to them soon before the paint penetrates or dries. If it is oil based paint, for now the best you can do is try to sop up all you can into clean rags from their feet, their fur and between their toes. Then clip off all polluted fur, even between their toes. Again, not a fun thing to do now. Quick as you can after taking care of them, get to the cat tracks on diverse surfaces and hope you can bring them back close to their original condition.

Cost: Office visit-minimum $50 to have them checked out, provided you do all the cleanup of the cat yourself, cost of damage to furniture/carpet/floors-unknown.

5. Your Mother just got you that beautiful Amaryllis and you are so excited, putting it on the countertop with the backlight from the windowpane. You awaken in the first light and find your cat has chewed on this flower and stalk. Soon you may see vomiting, hypersalivation, abdominal pain, tremors and diarrhea. Hopefully before this happens you speedily take your cat to the veterinarian and let them know what may have been ingested, or at least chewed so they will know the correct course of action.

Cost: Office visit-minimum $50, Injections/enemas to possibly counteract the toxin-minimum $50, Extended stay for hospital care-minimum $15/day.

In addition you may have possible lost time at work, decreasing your income. Accidents and ingestions that you can catch don’t always happen during normal office hours for your vet so you may also incur modified costs and fees affiliated with emergency call in and overtime office hours. All of the above have a much higher cost than money. Your personal worry and pain over a small loved one cannot be expressed monetarily.

As you can see, keeping your cats healthy, safe and long lived in an indoor cat playpen while you are asleep or away pays fantabulous dividends. The savings in furry friends so dear to our heart will more than pay for your investment in their safety and your peace of mind.

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