Dog CCL Surgery

You say that, but will a used Honda Civic lick peanut butter off your balls when you get home from work?

My job is consuming my brain.

I read the job title wondering why a dog and a casing collar locator would need to be surgically combined.

FML

This is why I have pet insurance for my dog

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Take him to the LSU Vet School

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Someone else mentioned this as an option. Guessing it is cheaper because they let students do some of the work? Any clue on pricing?

Took dog to LSU for same surgery and it turned out great.

Perfect. Thanks. I will give them a call tomorrow to set up consultation

My love has a price.

Even after the surgery your dog is on limited time and won't really enjoy itself.

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Someone else mentioned this as an option. Guessing it is cheaper because they let students do some of the work? Any clue on pricing?

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I can’t give you the exact specifics on pricing but it is a lot cheaper and I will only take my pets there from now on. We have a spaniel and she had a really bag stomach bug. We took her to our old vet and after an afternoon of tests she told us she has pancreatitis and she will most likely die in the next month, the humane thing to do was put her down within the week. She also said that if she kept deteriorating she might actually pass that night. Ended up with a bill for $800 for 4 hours of “vet work”.

Took her to the LSU vet school that night and they said she had a serious infection but it wasn’t going to kill her and nothing was wrong with her pancreas, after several tests and everything. We ended up putting her in the dog ICU though and she stayed there for four days while the antibiotics and IV fluids and everything else kicked in. Ended up with a bill less than $2k for the entire stay in the ICU.

Obviously it was still a ton of $ but we became lifetime fans of the Vet School after that. Can’t recommend them enough.

My 9 year old yellow lab had this exact surgery in January--he tore the entire thing. He was limping badly for about a month (we initially thought he pulled a muscle acting a fool in the pool), but it was not getting better.

Rene Baumer, DVM did it. He is at Metairie Small Animal Hospital in the Lakeview branch (on Robert E. Lee Blvd.).

It ran around $2500 or so (what I recall).

Ol boy walks just fine now.

My dog, Pitch, had this surgery. Never woke up.

He was an Aussie Shep mix. To this day they're not quite sure what happened in the operating room.

Good luck.