[Mybabe4me]

I agree with everyone to make sure you have what you need for money before getting a small dog. When I bought Babybear he had coccidia(sp?) I had to give meds to him and I have two other furbabies I had to buy meds for them also. Then when he was 6 months he jumped of my couch 12 inches high and broke his leg on the growth plate. That alone was over a thousand dollar. (don't tell hubby he thought it was less). After his leg he would complain about his neck bothering him I went to the vets about 4 times for them to tell me it was a pinched nerve. That cost me around 500 for visits and meds. Then when he was 20 months old he had a sezuire of some sort that was another 300.00. Then when he was 22 months old he jumped of my lap and broke his neck, died in my arms but we brought him back and gave him mouth to mouth. He cost us 600.00 that day for tests and emergancy care. Just to be misdiagnosed. I went for a second opinion which cost another 250.00 to find out that his neck was broken and he needed a 2500.00 surgery. We scarped up the money which we are still paying on. The 2500.00 was a estimate it actually cost us 3700.00 for the surgery and hospital stay, but then you have the rechecks. All in all the surgery and rechecks were over 4500.00. Thank god I can do the therapy for him. If I were not able to that would have cost me 175.00 for initial visit for Acuppuncture and 75 for each visit. Then there is water therapy that is 65.00 of first visit and 35.00 each visit after that and that is two to three times a week. I needed a wheel chair for Babybear, thank goodness there was a sweet lady that had just lost her furbaby she donated her wheel chair for Babybear and those are around 700.00 to a 1000.00 Babybear was a thousand. His chair was very complicated to make the donated one did not work so this nice woman bought him a new one. My little guy we have figured has cost around 10,000.00. And all i am telling you is the things that have gone wrong this doesn't include yearly check ups or shots, heartworm pills, etc. And at this time he is only 28 months old. I still have another 12 to 15 years to go. He is my little lover man and I would not have done anything differantly.
I am not trying to scare you out of getting your little furbaby. I am like everyone else trying to prepare you for what could happen. I would make sure you have enough money just in case. I wish you all that luck in the world finding your forever furbaby. Just please be prepared for him/her.