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LASIK for your Dog or buy another coin?

BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

So lets say your dog is about 10 years old and has developed cataracts in both eyes.

Would you get LASIK surgery for Fido instead of buying another pricey coin?

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  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,850 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 4, 2017 4:12PM

    I've got two dogs and they're fantastic, but they're working dogs, not necessarily pets......... I'm probably not the best guy to ask....... Roughly how much $$ are we talking about?

  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BryceM said:
    I've got two dogs and they're fantastic, but they're working dogs, not necessarily pets......... I'm probably not the best guy to ask....... Roughly how much $$ are we talking about?

    Used to be $5K, then $3K, but not sure now?

    Humans are down to $250 an eye.

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  • amwldcoinamwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Take care of that doggie!

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My dogs come first hands down!

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,913 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I agree with Roger, Lasik corrects vision not cataracts. (could do both but not necessary for cataracts). Should be pretty inexpensive.
    bob

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    LOL, I really understand all of these posts. My father had a professional photographer do a portfolio of his dog. The German Shepard must have been Marylyn Monroe reincarnated as the photos were beautiful - I don't know how they got that "ham" to remain still for the all the different poses. Anyway, when the dog died, he cried for days and refused to get another one. My father was a human being.

    My brother was an only child. I was not even on the family tree! You see, I was part owner of the neatest, gorgeous, "bullet-proof," Quarter Horse God put on this earth. He was like a "dressage trained" dog! When he heard the sound of my "fun car" coming up the stable drive, he would leave the heard and be waiting for me by the gate. I never had to catch him for a ride. We were together EVERY DAY (the teenage girl part of my life) for three years. Nevertheless, When he needed some major medical attention (my share $8,000) I said "put him down! :(

    They didn't and I >:) bought several coins with the money that wonderful animal would have cost me. He continued to treat me like gold as animals don't know what a "cold" heart a curmudgeon can have. :p

  • RoscoRosco Posts: 253 ✭✭✭✭

    I see a consensus already...the Dooogggg

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,425 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ya I thought LASIK was so the dog could drive without his glasses? Cataracts is sumpin different, I'm no eye doctor but I think its when they slice out the lens and put a plastic one in

  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,836 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had a dog years ago that liked to eat rocks from the backyard. That one cost me about $800 for the surgery to remove it at the Texas A&M vet hospital. I kept the rock for years as an $800 pet rock. It was either the $800 or the dog was going to die and I just couldn't stand to do that. I had another dog impale itself on an arrow that fell out of a quiver when it jumped up on someone who was on their way to go bow hunting. The broad head went right through its chest. Rushed it to the vet clinic for emergency surgery. I am sitting here typing as that dog is watching me. Spent over $1,000 for that one and am still amazed the dog lived. I had a 2 female dogs that needed C sections. They each cost me over $500. My luck with dogs is great.

    Cataracts, not sure I would do that one. I am more of a life threatening kind of guy. I have had dogs lose their eyesight before and it is very sad but it normally was due to old age and the normal progression of life.

  • TonerGuyTonerGuy Posts: 590 ✭✭✭

    Chemo for the daughter or a new coin ? C'mon !! Is this a real question? Of course the dog....

  • gonzergonzer Posts: 3,051 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 6, 2017 3:44AM

    Dog first. Always.

  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,678 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Take care of your pup first.

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  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,354 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I will be responsible and take care of my best buddy. He depends on ME to make their decisions for them.

    Coins are far down the priority list.

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  • GRANDAMGRANDAM Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2017 4:08PM

    Two years ago my youngest son spent $6500 trying to save his dog from cancer,,,,, they operated and within a week he died anyway,,,,, :'(:'(:'(:'(:'(

    Never seen him so torn up,,,,,, RIP CAPONE,,,,,,,,

    GrandAm :)
  • KindaNewishKindaNewish Posts: 827 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never had a doggo, but did have a blind cat once. She didn't care, so long as there was food in here bowl and she got belly rubs regularly.
    I say spend it on the coin.

  • StoogeStooge Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Look at my avatar picture! Nuff said!


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  • cameonut2011cameonut2011 Posts: 10,181 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @spacehayduke said:
    Broadie, ask yourself this, who is going to rescue you when you fall in the river? Not that new coin........... ;)

    Best, SH

    What makes you think the dog would save him? >:)

    I would pay for the dog's eye surgery over a coin FWIW.

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never had a dog, no desire to ever have one, so it would be an easy choice (or no choice, actually.)
    I have never understood the dog thing.
    I know that puts me in the .0006 of the population, but we're all different.

  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,521 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I had Greyhounds, I did everything for them that I could. They came first.

    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Woof!

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll just adopt a retired seeing eye dog for my dog & keep buying coins.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As stated above, cataracts are not fixed by lasik surgery.... that being said, and being a dog owner myself, help the dog....Cheers, RickO

  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,147 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dog. And once its vision is corrected, put it to work identifying 2009 Lincoln cent varieties.

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  • TreashuntTreashunt Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The dog, no contest

    However, if it was between my wife and a coin.....

    Also no contest.

    The coin

    Frank

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd either shop around for a cut rate deal, offer 30% of what the big boy veterinary ophthalmologist wants; look at alternative remedies (eye salves?) or wait for recommendations from others. "Festina lente". Vs. coins? Only buy what you can afford that adds to your hobby, unless you find a great deal.

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I work with a fellow who had three dogs and a cat - all from the Humane Society Pound. He has spent several thousand dollars on them in 2016 and 2017. One had to be put down. The critters are lucky to have him.

    I told him not to visit the pound with his wife any more.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,091 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the dog come first. the coins and sorts can wait for another time.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2017 12:54PM

    Get the coin!

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,677 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Kidding!

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 5, 2017 1:00PM

    In my very limited experience, I've noticed that there are cats (mean, aloof, princesses) and there are dogs trapped in a cat's body that are affectionate, curious, playful, - everything like a dog - a man's best friend.

    LET'S SEE SOME house CATS!

  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,412 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sell all your coins at a discount and get a few more canines. Stop the selfishness!

    Now riding the swell in PM's and surf.
  • RoscoRosco Posts: 253 ✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    LET'S SEE SOME house CATS!

    SAY WHAT !!

    Hmmmfff

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