a permanent extra dog?

[ritaxis]

The vet wants me to adopt a year and a half old dog about Truffle's size with tulip ears and brown all over, male I think, with a lively and sweet personality. She says the dog was gotten for a boy by a mom who lives in a trailer park, and the dog got to be too big for the trailer park's rules and anyway the trailer park administration insisted he was a pit bull until she had DNA testing done which proved he was largely rottweiler and they said, too bad, we don't allow rottweilers either.

Emma thinks I should do it.

The vet, seeing I was hesitating mainly because of money, said she would give him free veterinary care for a year if I took him and she'd take him back if it didn't work out. She said economize on food because both Truffle and Remy need to watch their weight.

I don't know. Truffle would be happier with another dog, and when we go to the dog park and there are no playful dogs there, they'd have an automatic play partner. But I don't have a job yet!

Thinking hard.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a pretty good deal, though there's always the problem of being attached once the year is up.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I had a vet offer the same thing for a cat, but I really can't afford it. I hit the Plan D donut hole in $42.55, probably two weeks, and then I have to pay all of all my meds for the rest of the year, about $460/month, and I don't know where all of that is coming from.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I dread medicare. I think I get to keep my current insurance, though.

As it is, the cost comes to a bit more than that, between meds and premiums.

[frogs_of_war]

It wouldn't be such a hard decision if you didn't want to do it, but right now jobs are scarce. Come on, economy, get a moving!