I am so confused now!
I called Dr Centers at Cornell and she was incredibly nice and explained the entire process to me. She will be in the vet hospital in a week and a half and said she would be more than glad to see Brodie. She asked me to bring him in on a Monday so that we could get the testing out of the way to see if he was even a candidate for surgery. I was very happy with this - yes, I'd have to take time off work, but at least Brodie would be getting looked at and hopefully fixed!
THEN, the group you had me join on yahoo informed me that Dr Centers was a very bad choice, that they would not take their dogs there as she was inexperienced and that just pretests alone with her would cost me $3500. They told me the only good choice was Dr. Tobias. Now, I understand Dr Tobias may be the best, but I live no where near UT. I'd have to take a plane, rent a car, get a hotel, take off work, hope I could get Brodie on the plane, be alone in TN (I'm a young female, I feel so unsafe doing that), and then hope that Brodie was a candidate for surgery or I'd have wasted my time. Is Dr Centers really that expensive? I thought she too was under $2000 for the full surgery and pre-op work? Is she really a bad choice? |