Root for the underdog: Owner claims animal hospital didn’t do right by paraplegic pooch

Boston Herald ^ | May 23, 2005 | Laurel J. Sweet

[chapin2500]

A playground beckons from the end of his street and it's a lovely day for a roll in the grass, but that's one trick too many to ask of a dog confined to a wheelchair. ``He's a trooper. He deserves the best and I'm trying my best to give it to him,'' said Patricia Foye of Brockton, whose year-old paraplegic yellow Lab ``Suga'' just may be the poster pup for a new breed of litigation: wronged pets.

[chapin2500]

Maybe one day we can give handicap parking permits to the owners of disabled dogs.

[Charlespg]

so now the malpractice pimps are after the vets

"first kill all the lawyers"

[riverrunner]

The dog needs to be put down and the owner needs to get another one.

[Starwolf]

There are couple members of my extended family who think medical tax decductions should include vetinary bills to encourage proper care of pets. *sigh*

[IdahoNative]

The dog needs to be put down and the owner needs to get another one.

I agree. I'm really attached to my dogs but there are too many healthy dogs/cats being put down in shelters to spend big bucks on keeping a maimed animal alive - have a good cry and move on. But then, I was a farm girl . . . never made pets of future meals even after scratching their heads when feeding them 'cause I knew I'd be eating them.

[riverrunner]

Glad to see another resaonable person out there.

[vetvetdoug]

This will be acceptable when veterinarians make the same amount of money for surgical procedures as do physicians. As for now, veterinarians make between ten to a hundred times less for procedures than an M.D. would get for the same.