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Would you pay £4.5k to save a stray dog's life?

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Yup. No question.
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Nope. I'm having trouble enough meeting my own vet bills!
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ddvmor


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PAYING £4.5K TO SAVE STRAY'S LIFE


A Dog lover is prepared to pay £4,500 for an operation to save the life of a stray.When the one-year-old Jack Russell puppy was hit by a car, Sarah Ross decided she wanted to help nurse it back to health.

The dog could have been paralysed for the rest of its life and Ms Ross was told there was a 60 per cent chance of the female pup pulling through when she paid the first installment of the bill.

But the Stoke Bishop resident, who owns her own conference production company, Sounds Commercial, said money does not even come into the equation.

She said: "I just don't think a one-year-old, who has been through everything she has been through, should be put down.

"I couldn't live with myself if she was put down, she deserves a chance.

"I will somehow raise the money. I have a good team of young employees who I'm sure will be up for doing sponsored swims or something similar."




Four and a half grand!  That's a lot of cash to spend on a dog whether it's yours or not.  I don't think I'd hesitate if Rochester needed the medical attention, but a stray?  Not sure.


I guess this lady doesn't plan to foot the bill all by herself - she's gonna force her employees to raise the cash, but even so, it's an ambitious goal!



-- Edited by ddvmor at 11:36, 2006-09-25

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I dont think its a case of whether you can afford it or not really - Animals (no matter how close you are to them) simply arent worth that sort of expenditure IMO


You have to be realistic - if the dog is 5-6 years old, thats longer than it would have lived in the wild and could die of natural causes any time soon - I'd let it go.



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This is a really hard question.... while it would tear at my heart and I would agonize over it for days and weeks, financially I'm not in a place where I could take a hit like that were it not my own. However if the fundage were available and it didn't mean my own animals/children would go without then absolutely.

I had ferrets years ago, and they are prone to adrenal disease, which my little Griff ended up getting. I sprung for the surgery and the treatments because as he was mine, and it didn't even enter my mind not to. $3500 ...he died two weeks later anyway

-- Edited by Aodan at 15:31, 2006-09-25

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"I will somehow raise the money. I have a good team of young employees who I'm sure will be up for doing sponsored swims or something similar."


This is the sort of yuppie nonsense that drives me crazy.  "I'll work really hard to raise the money?"  Nope, "I'll make someone less important than me work really hard to raise the money."  What a load of crap.  Someone please kick this person in the shins for me.  How has so much of the world completely lost touch with simple concepts of everyday life, such as work = reward, no work = no reward.  As Peter Griffin would say, that really grinds my gears.



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I love dogs I do, but a stray? Hit by a car?


sack


bricks


canal


job done!



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It's official - I am no longer the most controversial person on the forum - in fact I am not even close!

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It also depends on the dog, im really not fussed on Jack Russels,


and also how well it was knocked down, the fact it needs 4 and a half grands worth of work suggests it was done pretty well!



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Not necessarily.. vets are expensive.. could be something as easily fixed and set as a broken leg and a bunch of stiches and then there's medications and hospital stay... it adds up pretty quick.

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Sack, Bricks, Canal?


Bricks are worth good money.  I'd use a dozen kittens to weight it down!



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sharkjf115 wrote:


Sack, Bricks, Canal?


Bricks are worth good money.  I'd use a dozen kittens to weight it down!




Ha!  I like your thinking dude!



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Would a dozen be enough?  Kittens are quite light, you know...

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And full of air....


You know a hip replacement for a human costs about £7k - so vets must be very expensive!


I know when I had a hamster, he cost £5 to buy and I spent about £50 on vets bills when he was alive... I dont think thats sane looking back...



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i have to be honest, i probably wouldnt in this situation, but if it was poppy, i would

stead.. you dont have a pet do you?

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It all depends on the ownership, not of the beast per se, but of the situation.


I.e. if you are the one finding said beast and you volunteer yourself to be the administrator of the beast's care you will find it more difficult to authorise the beast's termination. In this case, said Brissle funny woman clearly feels that although she has taken ownership, she will not be ultimately fully liable for the full costs of ownership, hence the involvement of her employees. Were she not in the position to conscript her employees into a patently ridiculous animal preservation exercise I am sure she would have 'walked on by'.


In my view, unless this business is extremely atypical, she must be horrid to work for.


PS thanks for not cancelling my account



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Short Santa wrote:


In my view, unless this business is extremely atypical, she must be horrid to work for.


PS thanks for not cancelling my account




I kinda got that feeling, too.

You're welcome by the way! Nice to see ya.

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bonniepirateanne wrote:

i have to be honest, i probably wouldnt in this situation, but if it was poppy, i would

stead.. you dont have a pet do you?


I dont at the moment because it wouldnt be fair with me working away - but I have had dogs all my life and know how attached we get to our pets. It doesnt change my view though - sorry.


Nice to see you back Santa!



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ah don't apologise stead, i was just checking what i already thought to be true, when you regard marriage and relationships so poorly, i wouldnt expect anything more from you in regard to pets

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Ah... yes... wit... nice -


Ask the JDK if he thinks marriage is a good idea - all told (oh and give me a call in 20 years to give me your view KT )



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JonnyStead wrote:

Ah... yes... wit... nice -


(oh and give me a call in 20 years to give me your view KT )





i will indeed

also i'll ask my parents, billy's parents, my aunts and uncles, my great aunts and uncles, my grandparents, my sister and my other friends - and i'll see what they say



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Absolutely


2 out of 3 though



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2 out of 3?

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Sounds like a Meat Loaf song!

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