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idea for mine is just the plate on bottom for downward support, and probably zip ties and duct tape to hold it to the frame.
rain sucks... i dont have crap to do till 5:00 and this damn rain wont let me work on the crap pile
well looks like i am even more broke now... my dog Kingsley broke her leg bad today... it is gonna cost me a couple grand... so i doubt ill be able to come up with the money to keep progress on this project... we will see
Mike's dad can take car of this problem for you. I assure you it is a much cheaper solution. The cost of a .22 bullet.
you have no idea how not funny that is... a dog is a family member in my opinion and how would you like it if i said that about your mom or one of your brothers
I pretty much meant it as a joke...
but i've always wondered what I would do in the situation. I'd have a hard time spending a couple of grand on our dog.
By the way what is actually the matter with the dog? Just it's leg is broken and it's going to cost that much? Or is it something more serious.
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tate, where are u taking her that it takes a grand to fix her leg?... i have fixed a bunch of legs b4 in surgery....ill do it for 100 bucks...
i am sorry to hear about her.. i understand when u say shes like a family member.. if u need someone to take care of her when ur busy id be more than happy to help ya out
here is the full story about my dad shooting our cat. my cat liked to sit on top of the garge door. i guess one day it was not fast enough to move so it broke its back. So we found the cat and it was all messed up. So my dad did not wanna pay to have it put down so he took it into that backyard and shot it with the 22. And then i dug a hole for it and sang a little song for it.
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Well this is what happened: My roommate lets her in from the back yard and before he can catch her to wipe the mud off her she runs past him. She makes it to my room and on my bed. I run and push her off. She hit the ground wrong and yellped. I saw her leg and immediately picked her up so she wouldnt stand on it. Her front left leg was just hanging there all broken like. So we rush her to A&M small animal hospital. The pain must have been really bad because she pooped on me. The took her to the back and i did the whole paperwork thing. I approved the $190 to give her painkillers and x-rays and bloodwork and whatnot. A while goes by and then they show me the x-rays. She has a complete closed fracture of the radius and the ulna and it is moderately displaced. The have to brace it for now so that it doesn't pierce the skin. If that were to happen it would be way worse. So she tells me that they have to do "plating", which is putting a piece of metal in her leg to put back the two bones that are broke. This costs from $1500-2000. I was like damn and said there was no way i could pay that. I asked about casting and she went back to the dr and asked. He said that casting might work but with all the checkups and whatnot that it would only be slightly less and the chances of her being normal again were not very high. So i asked about anyother options. They tried to sell me on amputation and i said hell no, and possibly just giving her up. They actually think i would just give up my dog so that some bastard with money could just come in and adopt her and look like a hero. So i called my other vet and asked for a price and they said they had to get ahold of the sergon but it would take like 3 or more hours. I have yet to hear from them. I just found out that the cost estimate for the surgery is before the student 20% discount so that is much better. needless to say i am the king of bad luck and unfortunatly this time my pain got spread onto my dog.
tate amputation is not a bad idea. she is a puppy and it would be odd at first but she would do fine. i had a 3 legged boxer and it was cool having a 3 legged dog. we called her tripod...
Do not amputate if you can help it. Yeah it's funny to other people, but you love your dog and it's not going to be funny to remember what happened every day you look at her for the next 10 years.
When Dana broke her leg I panicked, but I calmed her down and when she calmed down I was a little better. I pretty much sat all night with her in my lap until the next morning when I took her to College Hills Animal Hosp. It's the vet on Dominik next to Gumby's and Blue Baker. The vet there is awesome and they did great work on Dana. They set her fracture, put her in a cast and she was back to normal in ~2 months. The big bone in her front leg was broken from top to bottom in a diagonal line (hard to describe, but this sounds like what Kingsley has) and the other bone was not where it was supposed to be. The vet got her back together without doing anything invasive and she can chase cattle just like she used to.
The vet I talked to at College Hills actually went through the trouble of talking to the vet that my family takes all of our other animals to in Beeville (an old Ag, 197? I believe) and discussed every option. Putting a rod in a dog's leg is extremely invasive and they explained that it would do more bad than good in the long run because it takes more for a dog's system to accept something like that than it does for a human's. This is especially worsened by the fact that a dog can't say when it hurts inside and you can't catch a problem until it's obvious and probably too late.
OK, enough typing. Go to College Hills and tell them a couple of friends recommended them (RJ and Ash actually recommended them to me) and ask if they can take a look at Kingsley. Act dumb, because what I just said may not relate to Kingsley's fracture at all. You might get the x-rays from A&M sent over or something so you won't have to pay for that again. See what they can do and go from there.
I think the total that I spent on Dana was ~$500, which includes all the follow ups and every time they had to redo her cast because she would chew it off, and the time I had to buy a doggie satellite thing to prevent her from chewing it off, and the time I got another one because she chewed the first one up then chewed the cast off again.
Yes my dog is psycho.
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im transfering her to aggieland animal clinic that she usually goes to... they are not going to do the plating but something with pins... it is safer and will work better