Kaz usually likes to spend her days curled up on the couch, demanding belly rubs. But occasionally, she gets a little feisty and needs to do some serious wilderness romping and dog clobbering. Recently, one of those “rare occasions” caused her to tear her cranial cruciate ligament (the dog version of our ACL). This injury is going to require a $4,000 TPLO surgery where they will cut and rotate her tibial bone to repair the torn ligament.
While the screws and plates used in the surgery will make Kaz a slightly bad-ass Robo-Dog, it will be an expensive, invasive and time-consuming process. We are asking our friends and family to help us out with this huge financial burden. Even the smallest donation can go a long ways!
As a token of our sincere gratitude, we will be sending all contributors an autographed photo of Kaz and we will (most likely) buy you a beer the next time we see you… Thank-you so much for your help!
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on Nov 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I wish you the best of luck with your dog, I just had this surgery done on my 2.5 year old DDB today and am in anticipation to see her. The surgery ended up costing me about the same for your quote ($3500 in total). For the time being i would recommend getting him on a glucosamine sulfate/MSM combo if you can find it (there is much more evidence of these two natruceuticals being more effective in preventing degradation of joint and cartilage than over the glucosamine/chondroitin combo). If you can afford it i would also recommend putting him on 600mg of Sam-E a day (there is current data that suggests Sam-E is quite effective in reducing inflammation over concurrent NSAID therapy), this would help reduce side effects and increase his comfort level and function. Good luck!