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A friend of mine started a thing on facebook to raise money for a lady that she knows who wants a dog. The dog is $120, which the lady doesn't have. It's nice that she wants to adopt a dog, but if she can't come up with $120, what is she going to do if the dog needs surgery or something?? Isn't part of owning a pet being able to give it the proper care???

:mad2::mad2:
 
I have 3 dogs. WE spend about $150 a month for food. Toss in the $1500 last month I spent for one dog for vet services. Or the $700 for the old guy. Or the $900 for all three's annual visit. Or the $450 I gave to the rescue service for one of them.
Kids and pets are not cheap. If you cannot afford them in the beginning, it ain't ever going to get easier.
Trust me.
 
My Border Collie blew out a knee last month. You don't want to know what doggie knee surgery costs. ;-(

The up-front cost for a pet is a small fraction of the annual expense, even with a healthy younger dog. If someone doesn't have the wherewithal or discipline to get the money to buy the pet in the first place, they aren't good candidates for pet ownership. Odds are, that pet would be going into a bad situation with a bad outcome (abandoned or neglected) at the end of the day.
 
A friend of mine started a thing on facebook to raise money for a lady that she knows who wants a dog. The dog is $120, which the lady doesn't have. It's nice that she wants to adopt a dog, but if she can't come up with $120, what is she going to do if the dog needs surgery or something?? Isn't part of owning a pet being able to give it the proper care???

:mad2::mad2:

That is extremely dumb.

Recently I donated some bucks towards a dog for someone, but it was a different situation. A friend of a friend (I verified the story) found a dog that had been hit by a car. Took it to a vet, paid $750 out of her pocket to get it in a stable condition. However the dog needed $2500 surgery or it would be a cripple.

She couldn't afford the surgery at the moment but was willing and able to give the dog a home. So a bunch of friends/family pitched in and i'm glad I was able to help.
 
A friend of mine started a thing on facebook to raise money for a lady that she knows who wants a dog. The dog is $120, which the lady doesn't have. It's nice that she wants to adopt a dog, but if she can't come up with $120, what is she going to do if the dog needs surgery or something?? Isn't part of owning a pet being able to give it the proper care???

:mad2::mad2:

The same rings true with kids.
 
Back when I was a kid we got a purebred german shorthair for $50. We bought him dog food that cost around $10/bag for a 50lb bag of food. He lived outdoors and since my dad was a vet we only paid for a vial of rabies vaccine each year.

Fast forward to adult life and the modern world of pets and I just paid a >$400 bill for a cat to get dental work done. I didn't even know pet dentistry was a thing. Wow.

I go into a local pet food store and what I used to think of as the premium dog food is now the cheap stuff. Organic everything for the organo-nuts... dog food from $50-$100 for a 50# bag. Again, wow is all I can say.

I'm buying the cheap stuff, but my dog gets farm fresh eggs(easy way to get rid of the cracked ones we pick up in the chicken coop) so I think she's fine.
 
I just spent $170 on a guinea pig vet bill last month. I won't get into what I have had to pay for my free boxer.
 
Don't feel too bad, my wife just got another "free" horse. :mad2:
 
A friend of mine started a thing on facebook to raise money for a lady that she knows who wants a dog. The dog is $120, which the lady doesn't have. It's nice that she wants to adopt a dog, but if she can't come up with $120, what is she going to do if the dog needs surgery or something?? Isn't part of owning a pet being able to give it the proper care???

:mad2::mad2:

She will wait until the dog is in terrible pain and causing her a problem, then she will take it to a vet and when she sees what it will cost she will accuse the vet of caring more about money than animals. It happens at least once a day at our hospital, even when we give a 50% discount (which means we are losing real dollars on her animal). Then after doing a bunch of those I will have to raise the rates to my paying customers and then listen to them complain. That is why we don't do as much free or discounted stuff as we used to.
 
If she wants a pet she should maybe get a parakeet. They are sweet and chirpy and cheaper.
 
$120 to buy a puppy is just the tip of the iceberg for cost of ownership.

A cat is cheaper, but somebody who can't scrape up $120 shouldn't adopt one of those, either.
 
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A friend of mine started a thing on facebook to raise money for a lady that she knows who wants a dog. The dog is $120, which the lady doesn't have. It's nice that she wants to adopt a dog, but if she can't come up with $120, what is she going to do if the dog needs surgery or something?? Isn't part of owning a pet being able to give it the proper care???

:mad2::mad2:


Plenty of morons breeding actual humans they can't afford. Pretty sure it's even dumber than that, if someone thinks adopting a pet is appropriate with no means to support it.

Please point out to your friend that I spent $1000 on a possible bowel obstruction for my dog this week, and that was for two sets of X-Rays, an ultrasound, some prescription high fiber food, antibiotics, and probiotics, and two subcutaneous fluid injections.

She'd better raise at least $4000 for her "friend" and commitments for more if needed, or she will be directly responsible for abuse of an animal.

Judging by her friend's cash flow situation, she should also raise the funds for pet veterinary insurance if she's dealing with someone who can't come up with $120. The cash will be spent on human groceries otherwise.

The dog is fine, by the way. He has a cold belly from where they shaved it and he took a massive dump at 1:30 AM the night he had his high fiber food. If he didn't, he would have gone to surgery that next morning and that would have been a whole lot more money.
 
Don't feel too bad, my wife just got another "free" horse. :mad2:


Oh good lord. Haha. I'm quite thankful even though we live on "horse property" that neither one if us nor any family members have that urge.
 
Our cats have a cost a fortune so far and both came for 'free'...
 
My Border Collie blew out a knee last month. You don't want to know what doggie knee surgery costs. ;-(

The up-front cost for a pet is a small fraction of the annual expense, even with a healthy younger dog. If someone doesn't have the wherewithal or discipline to get the money to buy the pet in the first place, they aren't good candidates for pet ownership. Odds are, that pet would be going into a bad situation with a bad outcome (abandoned or neglected) at the end of the day.

More than $2000? There was a time several years ago when my two older dogs were racking up surgeries, and each one was around $2000.

My cheapest rescue dog had some of the most expensive vet bills, and he died anyway. :(

Proper pet care is expensive.
 
Don't feel too bad, my wife just got another "free" horse. :mad2:

Oh man, I definitely feel for you! Someone tried to give my wife a free horse a few years ago.
 
Nate, what caused the obstruction?


I decided when it passed at 01:30 AM on a cold windy night that I wasn't going to poke at the poo pile with a stick to find out. ;)

A stool sample a couple days into the problem was full of hair. They didn't test the hair but the head Vet figured he ate a small rodent. The object on X-Ray looked about the size of a small skull. Other possibilities were the pelt of whatever he ate, balled up just right to make a round oval shape that didn't fit the small intestine very well.

(Greg joked tonight at dinner that if anything turned up missing in the house, I should go get that stick and see if it's out there. Ha!)

I know where the poo pile is on the property and still could go find out, but it kinda doesn't matter much.

Some dogs just eat things too big for their butts as the Vet joked. She has a number of patients who eat rocks.

A friend has a dog that does the strange behavior that's actually much more common than most folks know, eating underwear (or socks). The theory is they're trying to hide the scent of the person/den from predators, but it's a serious problem with some dogs.

Sammy has so far eaten his girlfriend's underwear about five times and underwear is no longer ever out where he can get at it in my friend's house. Kinda funny, the hampers all have bungee cords, and the underwear is kept in a high dresser drawer he can't open.

Our Vet's tech shared that they have one patient who has had so many surgeries to remove underwear from his stomach, that there's so many adhesions the dog can't have any more surgeries. The owner still hasn't gotten control of the household underwear and the dog has eaten three more pair and thrown them all up when administered ipecac. If he ever gets one caught again, he will have to be euthanized.

The nifty thing this week is we now know Dino's breed. A Vet tech knew of the breed and had previous patients of the type.

He's at least a significant amount of Large Münsterländer. Hunting dog.
 
The special characters didn't come across well from Tapatalk.

Large Munsterlander. Umlauts over the u and the a. German.
 
Ouch. You guys are talking me out of getting a dog.
 
Denver pilot, reminds me of the joke about the monkey and the cue ball.
 
The special characters didn't come across well from Tapatalk.

Large Munsterlander. Umlauts over the u and the a. German.

What kind of dog was it your friend had that ate the underwear? A Short-haired Pantymuncher? :D
 
I just spent $170 on a guinea pig vet bill last month. I won't get into what I have had to pay for my free boxer.

My sister's kid had two guinea pigs. One day they both just keeled over and died, and they didn't know why. They live ten minutes from University of Georgia vet school, and they have taken their pets there for years. So they took the poor little guinea pigs over to the vet school, and students did a necropsy on them (no charge). They both died from bloating from bad food. They had always been fed the same food, but it was a bad bag. So my sister's husband called the food company and told them what happened, and they were very concerned. But I didn't hear what happened after that, so I don't know if the food company did anything.
 
I decided when it passed at 01:30 AM on a cold windy night that I wasn't going to poke at the poo pile with a stick to find out. ;)

A stool sample a couple days into the problem was full of hair. They didn't test the hair but the head Vet figured he ate a small rodent. The object on X-Ray looked about the size of a small skull. Other possibilities were the pelt of whatever he ate, balled up just right to make a round oval shape that didn't fit the small intestine very well.

(Greg joked tonight at dinner that if anything turned up missing in the house, I should go get that stick and see if it's out there. Ha!)

I know where the poo pile is on the property and still could go find out, but it kinda doesn't matter much.

Some dogs just eat things too big for their butts as the Vet joked. She has a number of patients who eat rocks.

A friend has a dog that does the strange behavior that's actually much more common than most folks know, eating underwear (or socks). The theory is they're trying to hide the scent of the person/den from predators, but it's a serious problem with some dogs.

Sammy has so far eaten his girlfriend's underwear about five times and underwear is no longer ever out where he can get at it in my friend's house. Kinda funny, the hampers all have bungee cords, and the underwear is kept in a high dresser drawer he can't open.

Our Vet's tech shared that they have one patient who has had so many surgeries to remove underwear from his stomach, that there's so many adhesions the dog can't have any more surgeries. The owner still hasn't gotten control of the household underwear and the dog has eaten three more pair and thrown them all up when administered ipecac. If he ever gets one caught again, he will have to be euthanized.

The nifty thing this week is we now know Dino's breed. A Vet tech knew of the breed and had previous patients of the type.

He's at least a significant amount of Large Münsterländer. Hunting dog.

Glad that worked out. Too many owners wait too long, and little can be done when they come in.

My English lab ate a sock the same day my wife was picking me up from the hospital after major surgery. She took him to the vet, and they induced vomiting via hydrogen peroxide. It works great, but you may need a turkey baster to get it down their throat.
 
I had a corgi pounce on and swallow an avocado pit that I accidentally dropped once. I called my vet about it and he just laughed and told me not to worry it would work out in the end.....

Glad the big dog is clear now.
 
Oh good lord. Haha. I'm quite thankful even though we live on "horse property" that neither one if us nor any family members have that urge.
I think the old expression "There is no such thing as a free lunch" should be amended to "There is no such thing as a free horse" (or any pet larger than a mouse for that matter).
 
My sister's kid had two guinea pigs. One day they both just keeled over and died, and they didn't know why. They live ten minutes from University of Georgia vet school, and they have taken their pets there for years. So they took the poor little guinea pigs over to the vet school, and students did a necropsy on them (no charge). They both died from bloating from bad food. They had always been fed the same food, but it was a bad bag. So my sister's husband called the food company and told them what happened, and they were very concerned. But I didn't hear what happened after that, so I don't know if the food company did anything.
The food company would be financially well ahead if they provided replacement animals free of charge. provided your sister was satisfied enough to continue purchasing the company's product.
 
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