What's your dog worth to you

[10-x]

Our current Grey has bone chips in both shoulders from not waiting until the storm door is fully opened, hits shoulders going out and in. We've heard $1,500.00 for indoscopic surgery, he see the Vet next week.

[500MAG]

Found this old post of mine and I’m happy to report that nearly 7 years later and she is still running the roost.

[Targa]

Very nice!!! I love my dogs thats for sure. Here is one of my three goof balls...

[JoeG52]

Answer to your original post, I wish I had the choice. I wouldn't hesitate, I still miss her.

[lar45]

Our Catahula got a new knee for Christmas, torn ACL, scratch $1200 off the budget. The wife really loves that dog.
He's gone on a serious diet so hopefully he won't blow out the other knee.

[NY_Treeguy]

Our 1 1/2 year old rescue needed leg surgery. Ended up costing about 5k. No hesitation on my part and I didn’t want a dog in the first place. He’s my buddy and the only other option was to put him down.

[poppy42]

My wife and I paid $1900 so our rescue Bullmastiff could have emergency prostate surgery. This was in the early 2000s! Money well spent that boy was priceless and he lived for 13 years and as far as I’m concerned that wasn’t long enough!

[500MAG]

Our 1 1/2 year old rescue needed leg surgery. Ended up costing about 5k. No hesitation on my part and I didn’t want a dog in the first place. He’s my buddy and the only other option was to put him down.

Isn’t it crazy how attached we become? It is so true how they say that dogs give unconditional love. I also believe that when we have these things done for them that they know and understand that we are helping them.

[Harter66]

I had a yearling when this post originated , in 18' we spent most of 3k on her to find she had healing stomach ulcers while we were boxing an loading up for a cross country move .
The desert has no bugs , sure there's a deer tick but at 4000'+ with 0° winters and 105° summers padded with 4.5" of annual rain spiders are a bigger worry . The move to Arkansas immediately , in spite of my best efforts , taught us about fleas an mites . Turns out my work place was just about crawling in fleas and chiggers .

We got her and the house cleaned up , the chewed hair coming back , etc , and we got another batch . We caught it early , medicated . She got very sick , lymphoma , so 9 months after I lost my Dad , 6 months after spreading his ashes we put her down .

The black cat that adopted me at 0300 11/1/08' under a nearly full moon remains today , but is allergic to something in the house now and is patchy at best .

Stupid cat will probably kill me when she goes . When she does that'll be that . I've had 4 dogs , 3 cats and a cockatiel . I don't need any more pets , I've lost enough friends and companions for a lifetime , I have 7 Grands and realistically I'm within 7-8 years of Greats . Any travel is already a hassle . Raising 2 grands and keeping up 2 homesteads just doesn't leave me a whole lot of time for me and pets .

[lar45]

13 years is an incredibly long life for a Mastiff.

[GARD72977]

I have a mutt that cost 900.00 in medical bills. I love that dog. He is spoiled

[Garyshome]

Wayyyyyyyy more then Xibiden!

[FarNorth45]

Awesome!!! Glad she is still doing good !!! ..
A few months back i had to put my American Bulldog" Zeus " to sleep , he had a huge cancerous tumor in his stomach. Surgery would have been 3000 , but they said he may not make it through and it might be everywhere else also !!! It broke my heart but i new it was the right thing to do , if surgery would've fixed him up i would've done it for sure !!!
Years ago I used to train labs , ran Akc / Ukc hunt test but when i had to put my best hunting buddy "joker"to rest , i lost interest in training dogs and duck hunting ?
My buddy has a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon and I've fell in love with that Dog ...... so now I've saved up $1500 and i am waiting on the litter to be born !!! I'm exicted to train a new family /hunting dog !!! His name will be "Quigley " and should be around the first of June when he is ready to come home with me !!!

[Lonegun1894]

Thank you all for sharing the above. Too many people don’t understand that dogs are just as much part of our families as humans are. I would do anything for mine, and not just in terms of paying with money. And it means a lot to know that we have a group of your caliber here.

[Coopaloop86]

My wife came home with a chihuahua because she thought that it was cute that it would fit in a little purse. She immediately began hating it because she had forgotten the fact that puppies require constant attention and work and house training. A year and a half later that little dog goes everywhere with me and sleeps in the bed with us. It amuses most people to see a 6'3" 280lb bearded guy with a 4 pound chihuahua in tow but I would lay down my life for that little dog in a blink. I named her Athena because she has the heart of a 400lb pit bull.

[sharps4590]

Yeah....I get it. The stories are the same, only the names are changed. Got another "new to me" Siberian Husky about 18 months ago. He was about 18 months old when I got him. My 3rd full blooded Husky since 1995 and 1 half Husky, half Golden in between. That one was Buck.....90 lbs. of great big yellow eyes filled with I love you. This one, Steele, has no competition from other dogs and gets to live in the house and is literally, as a friend of mine calls him, my velcro dog. He is so rotten he should have an odor....and sometimes he does when it's close to his beauty shop appointment.

[GhostHawk]

2014 I was in a slump, depressed. Wife said you need a dog. One day she emails me from work, open this link and look.Attachment 279192Attachment 279193Attachment 279194

We had problems, issues. The young couple who had him first kept him in a 45" enclosed screened thing.

This is a high activity, high anxiety dog and smart as all get out. So he figured out how to run the zippers and he was getting out late at night, tearing things up. Doing naughty business in naughty places.
He is half Chihuahua and half Pomeranian. But the salsa is STONG in my boy Casey.
It took us a year but we worked most of the bumps out. He still seems to act out once a month or so.
I blame it on garbage from his former owners.

Summer time he goes for runs several times a day. He runs, I drive a little electric scooter. 4-8 blocks once he's back in shape after a winter of laying around. We also have a neighbor with a fenced in back yard. So once a day we'll stop in and let him run and roam to his hearts content. Neighbor has an older black lab.

He's getting older now, starting to show aches and pains in his joints.
Would not trade him for anything.

He barks more than I like, but we know when anyone approaches our house.
My wife has been through some rough back surgery then got infected. Was Septic, an hour from dieing.

When she came home Casey figured it all out right now.
She would be laying on the bed, need something. So she would call my name softly. I would not hear it. But casey would. He would jump up, bark 3 times, then point his nose at the bedroom. Momma needs something, ok I'm coming.
If I did not move fast enough he'd bark again.

14 brands of dogfood I have bought, none of them got eaten twice. Only 3 got eaten once. I know he sneaks some of the cats dry food. Mostly he exists on chicken, duck and beef jerky. Some "marrow bones" Dingo twist sticks with chicken flavor. And whatever he can talk me out of off my plate.

He's starting to have trouble jumping up on bed and couch. So I know his days are numbered.
Don't know how I'm going to go on without him.

He is a pain in the posterior, opinionated, thinks he has the right to the last word, and he uses poop as a weapon.
And I love that little rascal.

[dverna]

I am too pragmatic to spend a lot of money to keep a pet alive. I love dogs but do not want one again. They can be a PITA...and I do not take losing a dog well. Enjoy visiting my friends who have dogs IF the dogs are well behaved.

We get the occasional dog and cat that gets dumped in the area by folks who want to get rid of their pet. That is really sad. I suspect the coyotes get them.

[joe leadslinger]

This is my shadow and would be lost without her. The amount I have paid in vet bills is small in comparison to what she has given me in return.

[bluebird66]

Mine are priceless.