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["Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>]

Where and which leg is broken? Is it a fracture, ragged or a clean 
break? $600 isn't too bad. Check out www.handicappets.com they have a 
lot of brace type solutions and also help dogs in need out for all kinds 
of prosthetic devices.

--Sage

Lisa Kae Van Meter Perry wrote:
> You all have been through this before, one time or another. Our older Border
> Collie, Jack, has a broken leg. We have no idea how it happened, but he
> limped yesterday and today it was worse so we took him to the Vet.
> Our choices are surgery ($2k+), a cast that may or may not work ($600+) or
> to let nature take its course and do our best to keep him comfortable. That,
> too, has a 50/50 chance. The bone may poke through and we'd probably have to
> put him down.
>
> Jack is going on 11. He's been acting geriatric for a year or more. We don't
> have the extra money just sitting around.
>
> Today stinks but I'm sure there is a lesson to be learned and a silver
> lining somewhere, but for now, I can't see it.
>
> Lisa
> sw VA
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