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Skyline you make a good and effective point. I had no problem putting the dog down, in fact it is not the first one I have had to put down, nor the first cow, horse, chicken, and rabbit (We have raised them all). The problem I had was that somebody had the unmitigated gall to do that to a woman who was watching a dog suffer. I agree if our large animal vet was willing (which he ain't) to work on dogs, etc I am sure prices would be much more reasonable. It's the small animal vets that are out of their freakin minds. I had the same problem when we raised rabbits for production. The large animal vet wouldn't touch them. The small animal vet wanted to treat them like pets. So when we had a disease wiping out one of my pens they wanted $800+ to do lab work on a single bunny. Instead to save the rest of the pens I had to kill and burn close to twenty bunnies, and I STILL didn't know what caused it, if there was a medicine to save the rest of my pens, etc. Luckily it didn't spread beyond the first pen, but we never did find out what it was. I had already accepted the loss of the first pen before I killed them (Thats right killed them you leave the kids in aisa outa this), but haveing a vet unwilling to tell a production rancher what is affecting his livestock for less than $800 is insane. Those twenty bunnies only sell for $5-$10 a piece (Plus another $5-$10 for the hides in winter). I lost at most $200-$400 by wiping them out.
Anyway rant over.
GoodOlBoy
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