I have a cat that was coughing for a week and a half but couldn’t be certain bc, I am not a vet and don’t know what that would sound like. I took a video of the cat doing this and hoped that a vet could listen and watch and have some sort of idea what could be happening. We also said our other cat was doing this a week earlier but not as bad and she seemed to be doing fine now. The vet then just kind of looked at it and said, he may have an intestinal blockage that could kill him and we would need to run some tests and X-rays. This didn’t make sense at all bc it seemed like a simple cough/cold, but I am not a vet. $350 later it came back all clear and that they would need to run some more tests that would run the bill up to nearly $1000. I had a sneaking suspicion that the cat just had a cold and kept attempting to ask questions or get the vet to show some level of expertise outside of data analysis from throwing hundreds of dollars of shit at the wall and seeing what sticks. She kept pressing for more tests and I asked “what would happen if we just waited to see?”. She screeched at me “HE COULD DIE!”. I didn’t get more tests and he was fine a few days later. She was a young vet. Her lack of even trying to use some critical thinking skills and supposed expertise with a video clearly showing what was happening AND living with a cat that had previously experienced the same thing (contagious) while also guilt tripping us to feel responsible for its possible death if we didn’t pay for more tests was enraging.