i took a little jrt off some one a few years ago this was a saturday night long story short no fur, very badly cracked bleeding back, skin bright red/pink and a major flea infestation took her straight to the pdsa on the sunday (the next morning) as our normal vet charges a lot for sunday out of hours. we asked at the pdsa to just make her comfortable as we would take her straight to our vets in the morning. we did all the means testing despite the mrs and myself telling them we both worked and wouldn't qualify all we wanted was them to make the dog comfortable we offered a large donation £75