So my longtime hiking partner CharlieDog seems to have used up all of his conservative options for dealing with his hip dysplasia, and now it’s time for the orthopedic surgery. Â I hope you don’t mind (and please just ignore me if you do…everyone else does!), but I’ve started a GoFundMe campaign to try to help offset the astronomical cost of the hip replacement.
We could do a salvage surgery where they just cut out the ball part of the hip joint, but at his age and his weight the odds of his hiking or running again are not the greatest.  So my vet (who’s not even the surgeon who would take my money….) strongly recommended that we go the hip replacement route.  I have a second opinion with a second surgeon in 2 weeks, but in the meantime I’m trying to see if I can scrounge up enough to help pay for his surgery.  The hip replacement would basically give him his life back – the surgeon said he could run and hike and even backpack again if we did it.
So for those who are interested…please visit my GoFundMe page….and no, there is no Hiking with Dogs A-Z or Learning to Packraft with a Handicapped Dog DVD for sale. Â This is just me blatantly fundraising.
Peace,
