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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I spent $4000 on one dog, but never again. It snuck up on us. $200 for the first tests, $500 for the next, another $1000 for surgery, another $500... and so on, and then he died anyway. Probably were in denial that death was inevitable for the last couple grand.
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One of our dogs just turned 5 yesterday (never thought she'd live this long) and over the last few years we've spent at least this much on her, likely a little more though.
Vets in Calgary and then in NS couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She kept having what they thought was a UTI and treating it as such and it would come back every 3 months. She also needed a bladder stone removed during all these problems and that was over $1000. Finally we got tired of taking her back every 3 months for the 'UTI' and the dog being in obvious physical pain so we paid close to $1000 for them to send one of their cameras up her as a last resort. Turns out the vet in Calgary spayed her too early and her inner lining didn't have a chance to properly develop so her urine was agitating her bladder lining and it was full of blood, puss and ulcers. Each time the vet would just treat it with antibiotics and just knock it back and it would come back again. So once that was discovered they put her on 2 rounds of estrogen to mimic heat cycles and she's been cured for about 1.5 years now and is a totally different dog since she's pain free.
She did have to go in last week though because she's been very lethargic and had a lot of blood in her stool but the urine and blood test and xray turned up nothing. They are figuring it must be an intestinal parasite and between the pills for that and the tests it knocked us back $600 on Dec 23 and stopped me from getting a new camera body on Boxing Day.
It's a good thing she's cute. I'm kidding, what matters is that they are happy and comfortable.
Mine right now as I type this:
