"Trying" to SAVE money?!

May 20th

For many many months I have been begging Brian to get Tank neutered. I said I would happily take him to our vet and do it, but he didn't want to pay 350.00$. So he found a "clinic" that would do it for 75.00$-BIG savings, right? So he took him bright and early in the morning and we picked him up at 2:30pm. He was very drugged, but seemed fine. By the next morning I wasn't so sure he was doing very good so I took him back to the "clinic" and they said he was fine just a little swollen and bruised due to the trauma during surgery. What? Trauma? Then they told me that during his surgery his testicular artery burst and they had to do some repair work. GREAT! so they said for us to watch him and he should be okay.

By Sunday night his leg was completely swollen and I just knew this wasn't good. So off to the vet(our REAL vet, no more clinics for Tank). So basically the short and long of it is that he has a bleeding disorder(very likely in Dobermans, which we did not know) and 3 puss pockets full of infection-one of which was blocking blood supply to his leg. So 5 days after the first surgery he had his 2nd surgery to have all the infection drained leaving him a large open wound that would need to heal from the inside out. After 3 days in the vet hospital he finally came home to his loving family and he is now doing much much better. Through this whole thing Coleman was very worried and broke into tears several different times. His heart is BIG for his dogs!!! Honestly we were all a little worried and i guess we all realized how much we love him. Now having said that the grand total was over 1200.00$, do we love him that much? I guess so because we paid it!!! So I was just asking Brian the other day at what part of his plan did we "SAVE" money? Yeah that's what I thought! I am always right and we should have done it my way!!!

The day after his 1st surgery Coleman got him all cosy before he left for school and sadly he was still just like that when he got home from school. I am just so glad he didn't die because Coleman would have needed some therapy.

Notice how swollen is one leg is and it got worse then that before it got better. So sad! Crazy enough he still found a way to get up and annoy Daisy! LOL!