Claude: Pets

Push the vet to run a test for FIP after Claude kept flagging it from a sick rescue cat's results

thobes and their spouse took in a scared stray cat found in Elysian Park on July 4th. Weeks later the cat stopped eating and declined fast; after-hours ER care in LA cost $7,500 for two days of life support before any diagnosis, and treatment moved to a clinic in Tijuana. thobes ran each batch of test results through Claude, which kept saying to look into FIP and to push the vet to test the stomach fluid for it, though the first vet waved it off. When the Tijuana clinic was asked for the extra FIP test they first refused ('AI is not a vet'), then agreed. It came back positive, the cat got a prescription and is expected to live. thobes says not to trust medical decisions to AI entirely.

Get a pet insurer's $359 'earned premium' collections threat settled at $118 by escalating to the state regulator with Claude

After two pet insurance policies lapsed, Dimitri Sudomoin was billed $359 in 'earned premium' and spent two months being threatened with collections. Weeks of emails with the insurer's customer team got nowhere and a supervisor closed the thread saying they had gone as far as they could. With Claude planning the campaign, Sudomoin filed a complaint with the insurer's home-state regulator in New York and emailed two of its executives. The insurer folded in three and a half hours: the bill was settled at $118 as a 'special exception', with a written promise that nothing ever went to a credit bureau.

Turn rambling notes into a one-page pet-sitter guide for two dogs and a cat with Claude

Before a trip, Chris Ivey usually stayed up the night before writing instructions for the pet sitter. This time Ivey gave Claude rambling notes about the two dogs and the cat, and Claude turned them into a clean one-page house-sitting guide covering the feeding schedule, medications, the door code and the vet's details. After a couple of tweaks it was done, and Claude also blurred the personal details so Ivey could share the finished guide publicly.