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Last week my poor dog (pictured in my profile) broke her leg playing with other dogs.
I rushed her to a local vet and was charged £350+ for anaesthesia, X-ray and diagnosis and told that the needed surgery would cost £2,500 -£3,000

I took her to the PDSA and today she was successfully operated on and they gave me an 'estimated' cost of £550 and only asked for a donation.

I have arranged with the manger to pay for £550 worth of equipment for the hospital as my donation.

Please if you can support your local PDSA
 
Glad your pooch is ok.
Must have made for a happy birthday too :-)
 
It sure did. Sixty five years young and still stupid.
 
Well done Charles.

The PDSA is a fantastic charity that gets abused. I work in the veterinary industry and I've been around a fair few PDSA's in my time. You wont believe the amount of people rocking up in X5's and Merc's but are too tight to pay for their vet bills. This puts extra strain and pressure on the charity that may mean people who are genuinely struggling miss out.

I'm very pleased your paying the full whack. Most stick a couple of quid in an envelope. Some just let their dogs crap in the carpark and leave.

Hope the pooch is doing well
 
Not sure if you have pet insurance or not.

Great news about your dog and as Matt says - well done for the donation.
 
mattyg said:
Well done Charles.

The PDSA is a fantastic charity that gets abused. I work in the veterinary industry and I've been around a fair few PDSA's in my time. You wont believe the amount of people rocking up in X5's and Merc's but are too tight to pay for their vet bills. This puts extra strain and pressure on the charity that may mean people who are genuinely struggling miss out.

I'm very pleased your paying the full whack. Most stick a couple of quid in an envelope. Some just let their dogs crap in the carpark and leave.

Hope the pooch is doing well
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I always thought there was some kind of means test for those using the pdsa?
 
Hi apologies for the felay in getting back as I was totally knackered after a stressfull day and now my computer has gone tits up.
Ella and I appreciate the best wishes - she, all 35kg of her, is lying on my lap but seems to be recovering.

With ref to means test - the only requirement is that one has to be receiving housing or council tax benefit.

Unfortunately I had no pet insurance as I saved an amount each month in the hope that it would cover vets fees sadly this was insufficient but hopefully will do the PDSA some good.
 
ChasG said:
Hi apologies for the felay in getting back as I was totally knackered after a stressfull day and now my computer has gone tits up.
Ella and I appreciate the best wishes - she, all 35kg of her, is lying on my lap but seems to be recovering.

With ref to means test - the only requirement is that one has to be receiving housing or council tax benefit.

Unfortunately I had no pet insurance as I saved an amount each month in the hope that it would cover vets fees sadly this was insufficient but hopefully will do the PDSA some good.
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Glad to hear she's on the mend.

Regarding Insurance - it's worth looking at. Your original quote of 2500-3000 would only have required you to pay the agreed policy excess. Plenty of choices and options out there but keep an eye on small print for exemptions and pre conditions etc.
 
I will look at it but she is 9 yrs old and cost looks prohibitive. I am happy to use PDSA and just pay the full wack and more when can.

By making he full payment I see it as helping others too. I must say that I feel sorry for poor pensioners etc who have low incomes and because they have private pensions etc no access.

I was surprised how many people who were in there were had fancy phones
 
My last pooch lived to 14 years old, and I know that when she reached the age of 10 her insurance premiums alsmost TREBLED!!
Shopping around didn't matter either.....results were the same.
And this was for a dog who had never suffered any health issues during her life up to that point (or after, for that matter).
 
I've got my 2 year old Springer Insured.
My Pointer X Lab isn't insured but she's 8 now. I've not bothered because of previous conditions.
My Deerhound cross died last year aged 17 and my previous Springer the year before aged 14. I think they were about 9 and 7 when I looked into it but as you say age put the price up.
 
viv1969 said:
My last pooch lived to 14 years old, and I know that when she reached the age of 10 her insurance premiums alsmost TREBLED!!
Shopping around didn't matter either.....results were the same.
And this was for a dog who had never suffered any health issues during her life up to that point (or after, for that matter).
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That is why I was so shocked - she had never had so much as a cold before. She was out with the dog walker at the time but now has 8 weeks of effectively bed rest to look forward to.
If I can get a referral I m thinking of taking her to hydotherapy when she is a little better (wounds healed etc) as a Labradoodle she loves water unfortunately the more rank the better.

She is the centre of my universe and if it came down to it I would sell camera gear, books etc etc if I had to raise funds.

@dinners I hope to god that she will last till 17
 
Pleased to hear she's on the mend.

I did voluntary work in a PDSA shop for about 4 years. Just on a Saturday morning. I started doing it to get shop experience for part time work when I was still at school but ended up enjoying it and stuck around after I left school and got a full time job. It was really good fun.
 
That's great news - the PDSA do a great job.
Re Insurance its horrendous and they'll use anything to wiggle out of paying up - I've up to now self insured and touch wood appear to be better off - the most expensive has been a cruciate repair on one of my Retrievers at £1200 and an exploratory of £600 when we lost my other Retriever to Cancer
 
The (ancient) history of the PDSA is that they used to employ unqualified "vets" to do the work of vets, when it was legal to do so, and I think that this earned them a poor reputation.

Now though, the unqualified people have long since gone (died out), the PDSA does a fantastic job and deserves support
 
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