What city/state/country/date did your Tripawd have the amputation?  Sun Valley, Idaho, November 2012

Total cost of surgery?  Murphy has had eight surgical procedures, including the amputation and a total hip replacement. He also spent a month as an in-patient at the hospital. To date (including his two months of physical therapy), we are at just about $17,000. 

Private practice or teaching hospital?  Private veterinary practice (Sun Valley Animal Center - Dr. Randy Acker...one of the country's best canine orthopedic surgeons)

Fortunately for Murphy, he did not have cancer, so we don't have chemo costs.  Was it worth it?  YES!!!  Every time he sits on my foot, puts his head in my lap and looks into my eyes, I can't imagine having done this any other way.

Mitch if you are in N. Va take a look at Helping Hands in Richmond.  I wish I'd have known about them when we were going through this. I have heard wonderful things about them! 

I am just seeing this thread so let me throw our numbers in here:

Amputation Costs

• What city/state/country/date did your Tripawd have the amputation? Richmond Va
• Total cost of surgery? $2425 surgery, $1576 for pre-op CT scan, $750 ultrasound - $4751 total
• Private practice or teaching hospital? Private, specialty vet center

Chemotherapy Costs

• What size is your dog? 51 before surgery, 45 after
• Type of chemo given? Metronomics: Cytoxan & Piroxicam
• # of sessions? 7 months
• Total cost of treatments?  approx $250/month for a total of $1750 (+$134 per blood panel at each recheck,        approx $50 pain meds)
• Private practice or teaching hospital? Private, specialty vet center 

We thought that the cost for the whole surgery, was very reasonable...(here on PEI)......An awesome animal practice, with very experienced vets,  that handles large (farm) animals as well as pets.. One of the senior vets, did the surgery on Serge. She amputated the left rear, "fixed" him, and repaired a small "belly button" hernia. They have looked after our other GSD for the last 4 years, but she has been very healthy over the last 12 to 18 months, and hasn't been back for a while..(touching wood)

Including the take home meds, the attended overnight stay, the surgery and the hydromorphone, etc. the total cost including tax was $830..Cdn

The itemized cost on the invoice, just for the amputation itself was .....$340 Cdn

Not a typical amputation invoice, as he had a couple of other procedures at the same time..

For what it is worth, at the Atlantic Vet College which is part of the University of Prince Edward Island, a friend of ours had orthopaedic surgery done on the front leg of her black Lab, I think was some form of ligament repair, but I am not positive..The cost was in the region of $2000 Cdn,  by the time the dog was released..

Hope it helps

Richard

I have refused to add up how much Nixon has cost me over the years.  He has always been accident prone and was in the vet's office getting stitches before he had been living in our house 24 hours.

I believe I was quoted over $4500 from NC State for Nixon's amputation.  It wound up being about $3300 instead because they did not keep him for as many days as they had planned.  Nixon was so unhappy there and determined to make everyone else miserable (which he did) that they sent him home a day after amputation.  I can only imagine what my little diva did but it involved a lot of howling, urine, and feces to express his displeasure with his living environment.

His chemotherapy was donated by Ohio State's Greyhound Wellness program which has now been replaced with the 4 Legs 4 Hounds program.  http://vet.osu......u/vmc/ghwp  Male retired racing greyhounds are over represented when it comes to OSA diagnoses so greyhounds can get 4 rounds of Carboplatin. 

I still had to do bloodwork and pay for the IV equipment used.  Ohio State donated 4 rounds of Carboplatin that we had to break up into 5 doses since Nixon did not tolerate it well.  I think it was about $160 for his chemo supplies and blood work.