$20,000 on a pet?

[FarmerChick]

http://att.my.yahoo.com/_ylt=AvVzDc...om/family-home/article/111673/the-$20,000-pet


I would have to have one hell of alot of money before I would ever even consider doing this

 

[FarmerJamie]

Oh my goodness. ***shakes head and walks away***

 

[TanksHill]

That's just crazy. It's all relative though. She's probably driving an 80k car in a 1.8 house. What's 20k to save her best friend?

It's just kinda sad to know how much that money could benefit a family somewhere.

 

[FarmerChick]

yea if you are loaded with cash in the bank and all is well, I can see spending that money truly if the pet is family to you.....but if you say you are "just making" it and can't send your kid to college cause you are broke---well then...

 

[SKR8PN]

Our Golden has hip dysplasia, and we know that if her hips go bad at a young enough age, we will have to decide whether or not we do surgery on her. We will have to make that decision when the time comes. If she is old enough that we feel she could benefit from a longer more pain free life, then we will do it for her regardless of cost. Last time we checked, the surgery cost was about 3500 per hip.

 

[FarmerChick]

OMG SKR start banking now that is expensive yikes

yea you gotta make the call on age and quality of life etc. best one can do

 

[TanksHill]

I have to admit, my first Rottie blew his ACL chasing off a coyote when we first moved to San Diego. I felt really bad. He was out of his element. My fault.

We paid about 3k to have it fixed. But I had no kids, and very little debt at the time.

It was worth it.

g

 

[SKR8PN]

I have to admit, my first Rottie blew his ACL chasing off a coyote when we first moved to San Diego. I felt really bad. He was out of his element. My fault.

We paid about 3k to have it fixed. But I had no kids, and very little debt at the time.

It was worth it.

g

Been there, done that, got the very same T shirt TanksHill! Our last Golden tore her ACL one day by just walking normally! I was right behind her and watched it happen. She was 10 years old at the time, so we had it repaired. She lived another 3 and a half years pain free. It was worth every penny we paid.

Here is Sophie giving Ginger what for!! This was about 6 months before we lost her. Ginger was the best thing we ever did for Sophie and Soph helped us train Ginger. They truly did love each other!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Ginger was the best thing we ever did for Sophie

yep. our Lucky is SOOOOOO glad we got "him" a puppy. ha!

and um.. gulp... i have to admit to spending ALOT of money on pets... the vet i used in my Big Life in the city was driving a new sports car because of me
;-)

 

[FarmerChick]

no vet is driving a sports car from me lol

thank goodness never had to face the "big vet" bill problem on any small pets. they all just passed from old age.

only thing I had to consider was surgery for my 22 year old horse when it got twisted gut. vet said surgery was iffy cause of age that recovery would be long for her and reoccurance could happen very easily happen again even after surgery. I put her down. I was looking at least $5-7K and it wasn't happening for a horse.

I haven't had a pup in so long....I can't even remember what kind of costs I will have taking this pup in next week for booster shots.

I always give my own dog shots except rabies. I rarely hit the vet for anything on small pets. saves tons of money definitely.