Dodged a bullet and it still cost us $1k

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Bill McAdam

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Boy does this stink.
Our youngest dog, Quinn, came along with my wife and the other dogs to visit for the Memorial Day week. Saturday night he decides to eat 4 corn cobs out of our trash (we didn't put the trash can out of reach). We don't find out about it until Sunday morning - too late to make him vomit and shortstop problems. By Sunday night, it's emergency vet time and the meter starts running. He never needed surgery, seems he chewed the cobs adequately, but the return visits, one overnight stay, IV fluids, x-ray series, etc. topped out at around $1k. Looks like discretionary spending's on hold for a while, but at least he's OK.
Jeez......

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hi bill, sorry to hear about your dogs problem but glad everything turned out OK. its funny how "murphy" is always hanging around no matter how prepared one is for the unexpected. best, mark
 
bill,
good to hear he is ok , but I think after he poops 4 corn cobs he just may learn his lesson !!!!!
 
Glad to hear he is ok but look at the bright side....Nikes are 100 clams and jeans need to get replaced every two years if your lucky. College is not a consideration....

We had a stomach flip on a Weim(Curry) and ran to the local 24 hour Animal Emergency Hospital on a Sunday last year. Usually fatal in 2 hours. We were 5 minutes away after spending 15 minutes in prognosis. We got the do you have a credit card speech because 4K is probably the total and if we were lucky its only 80/20 and we have 30minutes to save her with no damage; they go in and manually flip it back. I put the credit card on the table as fast as I could and told the doc to stop wasting time and explain later..... If you have no credit card they euthanize.

Well I did not need new jeans and Nike's could wait and heck I finished college a long time ago. Curry is the cheapest kid I ever owned

We still have her and love her, glad you have yours as well.

Best Wishes

Bruce
 
On the bright side, we've had all our dogs under Veterinary pet insurance for years. We'll get a big hunk of it back. Found out about VPI because of a few cuts-that-need-sutures episodes that always seem to happen when regular vets are closed. After teh first $50 or something like that, they return up to 80%. Usually ends up being about half or a little more, but anything lessens the blow.
 
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