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Originally Posted by pstinard  We paid $750 for Bella in March 2013 under fairly similar circumstances in downstate Illinois. Bella came with full AKC registration, and her AKC pedigree shows that she came from good breeding stock (thank God, because I didn't know what to look for at the time). The breeder seems fairly "old school," so I doubt that any state-of-the-art genetic testing for diseases was done, but Bella has been healthy, frisky, and adorable  . |
I will say get her insured now with an Insurance Plan that covers genetic and congential defects.
I will be posting this message over and over again.
For those that do not know I was a CPA in a former life time. Cost analysis etc is my forte.
Look even good and even great breeders certainly can't protect against accident or injury. And many things we just don't have a genetic marker for.
If your dog gets run over by a car, or mauled by a dog, do you have $5000 to diagnose and do surgery with.
What happens if your dogs get cancer; at least $5K to treat with variable rates of success.
What happens if your dog has CT or how about LP that develops later in life and needs surgery? $3 K or so.
So do you guys have the funds over and over again?
To date I have spent $12K on Magics rehab ddx and drugs for his DLSS.
You guys prepared for a 12K bill?