Dog help- bandaid on a gunshot wound

No my dog didn't get shot- figure of speech. Here's what we know, our 10 year old rescue golden tore her ACL. We're not paying the $2400 for the surgery to get it fixed just to risk having her for only a few more months after that. We're not sure she really has a lot of time left, and the surgery (aside from being expensive) might not be worth putting her through again (she's already had part of her jaw removed due to cancer before we got her). So with the ACL repair surgery out, is there any kind of fix, even if it is kind of like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound, or is she pretty much doomed to limping around for however much longer she has with us? We've only had her for about 6 months and knew that we potentially only have a few years with her, but we'd like to make her last 1-3 years as comfortable as possible.

Other than doggie pain killers I don't know.

Our 10yr old lab tore his ACL about 3 months ago. We are treating him conservatively, without surgery also. If he was 2 it might be a different story. The fact remains he's a dog not a person. So he's really about 70 years old if he was human. Would you get your ACL done at 70? Probably not unless you where a freak of nature.

Get a prescription for Carprofen. It's like ibuprofen fr dogs. Give it regular for the first couple weeks, then just as needed when he starts gimping around. He usually doesn't need it unless we are camping or he is swimming and splashing around the river and walking on uneven rocks. He will be good as new in a month or two. The first two weeks suck. We where second guessing ourselves. But we waited and all is good.

Honestly if you're not going to het the surgery put him down. At his age if he damages it more the pain will be worse. He's already going to have lost mobility and his other body parts... Hips, other appendages will compensate to make it bearable.

He will start to hurt in more places. You can give him doggie pain meds and they'll take their toll on him as well.

If you're worried about the money just put him down.


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Originally Posted by Monky

Honestly if you're not going to het the surgery put him down. At his age if he damages it more the pain will be worse. He's already going to have lost mobility and his other body parts... Hips, other appendages will compensate to make it bearable.

He will start to hurt in more places. You can give him doggie pain meds and they'll take their toll on him as well.

If you're worried about the money just put him down.


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Agree

Our Lab tore her ACL in March.

She had never asked me for anything before. No car, no cell phone, no nothing.

A new ACL was the least we could do.

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Originally Posted by Hoser

Our Lab tore her ACL in March.

She had never asked me for anything before. No car, no cell phone, no nothing.

A new ACL was the least we could do.

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Yep. They give way more than they ask in return. My dogs are family. I'll do whatever my means will allow to make sure they live a happy life. We've done the ACL thing (or some tendon...forget which) on one of our JRTs. Wasn't quite $2400 but it was close. That one cost me a nice M1A about 4 years ago. But, I recently replaced it (for a lot cheaper than I sold the other one!) Karma, maybe.

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Originally Posted by Monky

Honestly if you're not going to het the surgery put him down. At his age if he damages it more the pain will be worse. He's already going to have lost mobility and his other body parts... Hips, other appendages will compensate to make it bearable.

He will start to hurt in more places. You can give him doggie pain meds and they'll take their toll on him as well.

If you're worried about the money just put him down.


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this get her rimidle untill she is in too much pain then put her down.....she will end up tearing up her other acl soon because its having to do all the work for too limbs now

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Originally Posted by Hoser

Our Lab tore her ACL in March.

She had never asked me for anything before. No car, no cell phone, no nothing.

A new ACL was the least we could do.

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diffrent view of dog ownership none of our 4 would get 2500$ in surgery i damn sure wouldnt put that into a 10 year old rescue i just got

I wouldn't bat an eye at paying $2400 for a fix like that. I spent over $7K at the vet last year alone on far less significant issues for two dogs that are over ten years old. Dogs can get costly as they age. If a person can't afford to take care of children, they shouldn't have them....and that should apply to pets as well.

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Originally Posted by hatidua

I wouldn't bat an eye at paying $2400 for a fix like that. I spent over $7K at the vet last year alone on far less significant issues for two dogs that are over ten years old. Dogs can get costly as they age. If a person can't afford to take care of children, they shouldn't have them....and that should apply to pets as well.

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+1000


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