How much would you spend on your pet?

Depends on situation
We paid LSU 3K for a surgery that had failed twice before with our regular vet
LSU told us the way they would do it they could almost guarantee it wouldn’t fail
Dog was about 4 years old at the time, it worked & we had several more years with her before cancer got her

I don’t think I could put an older dog through a bunch of treatments, I’m thankful mine passed when she did so I didn’t have to make the decision on when it was time

A lot. Just spent 9k on my Great Dane that I adopted a couple years ago. Thats after I spent a couple grand to get rid of his heart worms that he had when we adopted him.

It was $6700 for a 20 hr stay at an emergency vet for aspiration pneumonia. Then the follow up vet visits, x-rays and medicine end up being close to 9k.

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Thats after I spent a couple grand to get rid of his heart worms that he had when we adopted him.

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Adoption place doesn't give them a clean bill of health prior to transferring to you? Seems like they should pay for that.

About tree fiddy.

I put down my 13 year old lab a couple of years ago. He had a tumor on his face. It could have been treated but the vet said it'd be rough on him. We waited until we noticed it starting to hurt/impact his quality of life and put him down instead of dragging it out. He lasted about 9 months after we noticed the tumor. The fact that he was able to jump in the truck and walk excited as all hell in to the vet made it really freakin' hard to do. If he were younger I would have spent a lot without a second thought. I figured giving him a painless quick end was better than dragging things out.

Depending age or illness, whatever I can afford. If near end of average lifespan or terminal, I’d just make comfy until it’s time and offer it’s most fav treats and chocolate and pizza, etc.

We just bought a dog…and that initial cost soon grows exponentially. So many vet visits with shots and neutering and chip and what not.

I just had to spend $2k on mine. One of my dogs had a rectal hemorrhage..

Saturday night I get home and open the front door and it looked like a crime scene in my house. One of my dogs was bleeding out of her arse. Took her straight to the LSU vet.

Had to put down $2k. She stayed Saturday night, Sunday night and came back home yesterday, but was told we will actually get some of that money back. From what it sounded like, in situations like that they charge $2k to make sure whatever they have to do was covered. They had to pump her with fluid and probiotics. She was dehydrated.

Its something that happens that they have no idea what causes it. So to answer your question I guess $2k.

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Whether it’s old age, illness, injury, etc. at what point do you just cut your losses and put it out of its misery out back?

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Maybe a couple hundred bucks. It's just an animal.