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Originally Posted by kad0151

Good Afternoon Everyone,

This is my first time with YorkieTalk.com and didn't realize you existed until I started googling about a diagnosis we received from our sweet yorkie's vet. She has medial patellar luxation. After a lot of researching, I see that it is common in yorkies as well as other small breeds. My husband and I have a 3 year old yorkie, named Precious and she is our baby!! We were devastated when the vet told us that Precious may have to have surgery and the cost would be at least $2000!! We love our Precious but we were very taken back by that. I would appreciate any kind of feedback you can give us.

I love knowing we all can come to a community and talk about our sweet doggies and help each other out. This is awesome!!

Look forward in hearing from you.

I had a toy poodle that had the same diagnosis when she was only three months old - of course, that was 14 years ago and the surgery was $400.00. One of our big farm dogs had both her knees go out. If we would have had the surgery done in town, it would have cost $2,000.00 per knee. Thankfully, our vet recommended us to Kansas State University - which is known for the School of Veterinarian Medicine. It has a beautiful vet hospital and the cost was less than half. I don't know if you have any universities around your area, but you might check into something like that.