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Originally Posted by Christinee  I might be explaining the knee cap wrong. I cant remember if he said it had to be removed or just popped back into place. |
Neither one makes sense to me. Please be very careful here before you proceed.
I am with the above posters who suggested a board certified surgeon. I will never allow a general vet to do such surgery on my pups. It might be a bit more money to use a boarded surgeon ,but in the long run, usually you are better off. I have seen many botch jobs in the waiting room of the specialist I use....people who trusted their general vets. I am sure some of them are quite good...but I won't take the risk. Many of them also use luxating patella as a money maker...I hate to say it, but it is true. Let me use a recent example: We took three pups to the ortho surgeon here in Houston this past year. One of our foster homes had taken one of those pups to her vet who said the pup needed surgery on both knees and both hips and the he was going to give us a great deal
....$3,000. Well...the surgeon advised us that she did not need any surgery....matter of fact he did not advise surgery for ANY of the three pups!! Board certified surgeons deal with these issues all of the time...and some cases of luxating patella, depending on the age of the pup, need NOT be surgically repaired.
I don't understand why he had to be sedated for xrays...I have taken many pups to the specialist here and never have any of them been sedated. Even my wild child who recently had ortho surgery was xrayed without sedation. Is your pup that wild?? If not, alarm bells are going off imho.