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TPLO surgery runs $3500.00 - $3700.00

TTA is where instead of cutting the top of the bone in a curve and rotating it to a 90 degree angle, they slice down the part of the bone that is non-weight bearing and put in a spacer to make the bones meet correctly. They still install a plate and screws, only because it's on a non weight...

My Muggles seems to have partially torn his ligament in the hind leg. One vet recomended TPLO, which I noticed a lot of people have had done and read all the posts on that. However, the second opinion vet we took him to said he would recommend TTA, which is still a surgical procedure, but has...

Hi -- I was just posting a questions on hert murmurs and saw yours. I have read as much as I can about murmurs, but I like you would like first hand advice from people. Most say that a puppy can grow out of it, especially when they are on the lower grade 1 scale, but I'm not sure at what age...

Mugzy is 1.3 years old. Last week, he started 'limping' on his back leg. We brought him into the vet who could not find anything wrong with his leg or a reason for him limping. She gave us some pain medication in case it happened again. While he was there, she said he had developed a grade 3...

My poor baby had surgery yesterday to remove his undescended testicle (his other was removed also). He went in at 8:00 and i was allowed to pick him up at 5:00. We were not allowed to give him any food or water until this morning. He is soooooooo sad. He is 6 1/2 months old. We kept...

Besides Mugzy, (almost 6 months now) I also have 2 cats (age 1 y and 6 y). The older cat does not want to be bothered by anything, human or animal, she's really a feral that was born in our yard and we took in. She's outside most of the time, comes in to sleep and eat. Our 1 yo kitten, my...

Thanks for all the welcomes. I really don't know that much about boxers and this site is very helpful.

Hi- i just switched Mugzy to the BARF diet about 2 weeks ago, and the eye boogers seem to have gotten worse. He has a lot in the morning, I just wipe away and then when I get home from work around 2-3:00, he has a little, which I wipe. I was getting concerned that he may have a cold or such...

Hi to all you boxer fans. I am a new mother to a wonderful fawn/white male boxer. His name is Muggles.. (we call him mugzy for short). He is now 5 1/2 months old. He had some stomach problems in the begining (alot of diarrhea). We recently switched him to the "Barf" diet and he seems to...