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Originally Posted by xoCourtney  And for the record, id never resent my puppy over a decision that I made. That wouldn't be fair at all. |
It's not fair but it does sometimes happen, even if we don't think it will. It's good you are thinking hard about this now and realizing how much your life will change. There will be things you just can't do with a young dog at home and things you'll have to forego. The expense for vet care can be quite staggering - literally and figuratively. I almost fainted over on one-night's ER vet hospital stay quote. Felt myself growing weak in the knees. $750.00 to start and go from there. Wound up at $1200.00 with tests and medications to take with us and that total bill for that particular illness of aspirate pneumonia was $2,000.00! Vet thought he was probably eating something, swallowed "funny", reverse sneezed at the time and aspirated - boom - got pneumonia. Then that blossomed into a flurry of tummy trouble, in part due to his meds and things so it was more money still.
The upside of having a dog is huge and outweighs everything else for most but not for all so it is admirable to give it lots of thought and think through in advance how you'll be handling many things that come up.