HELP! Desperately Need Low Cost Vet Services for Injured Dog!

My experience has been that local vets are a fraction of the cost of the emergency vet clinics (i.e., the same situation for cat 1 was over $1000 at the Emergency clinic on a Sunday and only around $350 for the same thing for cat #2 at the local vet on a Monday). We live in Flower Mound and have used Dr. Kirby in Lewisville for 23 years and have always found him to be quite reasonable, especially if you explain the situation. He's located at the center at the SW corner of Old Orchard and Main in Lewisville ###-###-####). If that's not convenient, just call local vets and ask what they would charge for something like that - I think you're likely to find someone that will work with you. I have found that vets are far more conscientious than your average MD.

Dr. Charles Pipes is an awesome vet who is very inexpensive and cares so much for the animals. We've been using him for 5 years. His address is 3046 Lavon Dr. #136 Garland 75040. He is near 78 and 190. His number is ###-###-#### and he opens at 7:00 am. Good luck!

D.

Don't know where you are located, but take your dog to Dr. Carver. He runs Humane Animal Hospital and he is fantastic and very caring. He wants to help people keep shots current on their pets...so he is very reasonable in pricing. I have been taking my dogs for the last yr...and have a couple of other friends who take their pets there too.
Example in pricing...he cleaned my dogs teeth - both - for less than what one vet would charge for one dog.
He's in Plano, off central and 15th. ###-###-####.
Give them a call - you'll be impressed.

C.,
Sorry to hear of your dog's injury.
You might keep him inside as he heals as flies will lay eggs that turn to maggots in the open flesh. Sounds bad but looks worse.
Please at least contact lazypawvet.com which is a husband and wife team that are the most compassionate people I have seen with pets. They even make house calls for not much more than an office visit. They let us bring in a stray cat that was injured and took care of it as I did not have the means to.
The website is informative and you can even email him for suggestions.

Try your local SPCA. That is who helps us! Good Luck!

I agree. Emergency clinics will quadruple the charges! We took our lhasa apso in once for a supposedly broken leg. They wanted $1500!! The next day, we took her to Cedar Hill Veterinary Clinic for not even $150. Her hip was out of joint (they adjusted it back in), and there was a hairline fracture, which required splinting and a light cast for 3 weeks.
Try calling your local SPCA or Humane Society. Good luck!

I'm not sure how much they would charge your for your dog's situation but they've always had the cheapest prices I've found.
Petmobile in Garland off of I-30 & Broadway.
I can't think of the number but the website has it and the site address is http://petmobile.com

Good luck and hope the doggy gets better!

Emergency clinics always are higher cost than regular vets.

Did they give you information on the vet credit card? A lot of high cost situations like that get approved, so the vet gets paid via the card, and then you make monthly payments to the card company. I can't remember the name of it, but most emergency clinics have info on it.

I second a SPCA veterinary clinic. At the Dallas downtown location, they are even open on Saturdays (regrettably no longer on Sundays). As a matter of fact, I bring my little Shitsu there for shots, checkups, etc. He was also neutered there. I don't have another regular vet.
They do a great job and their prices are pretty low compared to those of a regular vet.

We had an issue similar to this about 2 weeks ago. Our dog got into a fight with another dog, and our dog lost, our dog got a HUGE chunk bit out of her leg. Yes gapping hole, could see the muscle and all, she limped for about a week. We did nothing. The only thing stitches would do would allow it to heal faster and prettier. I know this sounds mean but a mixture of cheyane pepper (spell?), yes the hot chili powder stuff, mixed with hydrogen peroxide to make a paste. Have someone hold the dog down, and someone pack the open wound with that paste you made. Then wrap it, if you can, with gause so she can not lick the paste. That keeps infection out and allows it to heal quicker.

Once she starts licking her wound herself, do nothing else, she will heal it on her own. Good luck.

by the way, we did this and our dog is perfectly fine and her HUGE hole is not a hole at all anymore.