Has anybody ever heard of a medical research grant or anything like that to help pay for a dogs extremely rare surgery?

 

I've never heard of anything like that. I just spent $5200.00 on my Lab to keep her alive. She came down with a cancerous tumor on her spleen. She didn't make it. Life right now at my house sucks as she was family. I can only hope you're asking because you're just looking for info and not facing having to put a friend down. It takes a long time to grow good friends.

 

I love my dog, she's a sweetheart. But she'd go the way of old yeller if it came down to her or $5200.00. Not to mention the fact that the money didn't seem to help. Yikes!

Regardless, Sorry for your losses.

 

Yeah, but good luck finding that. Only place I have heard of that is from Colorado for a new cancer treatment one of our clients dogs was chosen for. But you don't make any decisions what so ever. You essentially sign the dog over to them.

 

Hmm...

This is our Shiba Inu named Kahlua.



She is only 2 years old now, but she is suffering from a very rare genetic disease. For some unknown reason, her body is producing a major over kill amount of a fluid called kyle. This overabundance of kyle fills her chest cavity and pushes against her heart and lungs, preventing her from breathing normally. 6 months ago is started, and kit hard. It got so bad that she could just barely breath at all. Twice now, she has had the fluid removed by a clinic in Columbia MO, and she is as good as ever afterwards. Over time this procedure will eventually cause her to be Malnutritous, and protein deficient. That is hard to explain why, but long story short... She needs surgery to allow her to life a long, normal, and healthy life. The clinic in Columbia said they have only heard of 8 dogs having this surgery done, and 7 have lived. WFT do I do now? They said the surgery will be about 3-5k. We don't have kids so... well you know... but we are trying to find out if there are any grants to help pay for this seeing how it is very rare.

 

Good lookin little girl you have there. I'd suggest researching the name of the disease or condition and see if any of the colleges are doing any research on it. They might do the surgery for the cost of materials and transportation. Colleges like Texas A&M do this frequently but your girl has to have the disease of the year to qualify. Then again, a letter to the head of the department might peak his interest and he may start a study on what exactly the causes are and how to prevent it in future animals. They've come a long way in veterinary sciences. They haven't come far enough to save my girl but maybe yours. Best of luck.

 

$3K to $5K sounds awfully expensive for dog surgery. It's possible, I suppose, but most K9 surgeries run $500 to $1,000. I'd look around and get some second opinions.

 

Only thing I know of is if she is registered the AKC has a pet health insurance program, they wanted me to sign Sarge up for it, got emails just about everyday for it.

BTW this is Sargent BNE Butcher (his registered name)--

 

This is true, but not very many places know anything about this condition to begin with. So... Options are sort of limited here.


Sorry to hear that man. I'll will look into Texas A&M though.

Thanks fellows!

 

Well we have had ZERO luck looking for grants, so hear we go. Wife is going to go ahead and schedule the surgery. They need $2500 down.