Has your dog been injured?

Has your dog ever been injured and needed medical care by a vet?


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Got a quote for $4400 for one TPLO.
Suture stabilization is a little more than half that.

70# active 3-yr old dog.
Pretty sure that suture stabilization is not going to work well enough.
Colorado State has a very informative web page.
 
Just put mine through surgery last week for a Tibial Crest Fracture. $1100 down the drain and 2 months of no training. Little fella is about to go nuts and so am I. Could have been worse and been the ACL though.
 
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The porcupine was fun, his dad got stitches from barbed wire twice in the same trip. The most expensive was a small scratch in an eye that wouldn’t heal and ended up costing around $1500 and five trips to the vet and veterinary eye specialist! All in all, totally worth every expense and worry for such awesome hunting partners!!
Ryan
That pup is absolutely unrepentant! lol. No lessons were learned on this day.
 
4 year old chocolate lab.. I’ve had three outdoor related emergency vet visits with him

1) he didn’t clear a barb wire fence chasing pheasants in Iowa which ended with 18 stitches along his chest and belly
2) 3 inch stick lodged up his nose on our return trip to make up for the barbed wire fence accident
3) glass bottle shattered under his foot while shed hunting back home in Ohio which resulted in 6 stitches up his leg

All 3 accidents happened within a 4 month span
 
As I mentioned before our beagle that was hit by an Amazon driver and had a broken femur cost us $8,000. Then last fall he got accidentally locked in the basement and found a plastic gallon jug of rum egg nog that was left out of the freezer to thaw. He chewed through the jug and slurped up most of it. Overnight stay at the animal hospital was $1,200.
 
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