Sympathies to the OP.
I now own half of the most expensive pair of socks in town, after my Lab pup Patience decided it would be a good idea to swallow one of them. This came to our attention after she started barfing up all her meals and needed a bowel incision to remove the item. She comes home from the vet hospital today, and will be wearing an Elizabethan collar for awhile to remind us all that she is a moron.
Cicero - Do you want some coyotes? 
Tamerlane - The wild cat with the partial amputation now will get more removed by the vet if I get him. He was caught in a trap at a mobile home park, so I wonder if the trap got his tail?
Tranquilis - Yeah, I figure $180 wasn’t bad for everything that was done. Wylie weighs about 48 lbs, so he’s probably roughly the same size as a coyote. He has one puncture wound on his lower back leg, which makes me wonder if one coyote tried to hamstring him, or if it was just an incidental bite. In any case, Wylie was a lucky boy.
StG
Not to speak for Cicero, but suspect dingoes are worse than coyotes. I say this having lived in the desert with coyotes, myself.
My kitty Samrys is my 'spensive, asthma having, medication needing, extra vet check having very fat girl from steroids kitty. It’s like having the Dolce and Gabanna version of a cat, rather than the usual KMart special.
I was trying to have an SDMB free days but I can’t let these witticisms pass. 
Fortunately we have no dingoes close by- that i know of.
Last night I had this wonderful idea of making a spreadsheet to show the cost of the darlings (pets ) this year. I have the vet bills, but then I thought I would have to factor in their food, kitty litter and litter tray liners, flea and worm stuff (or should that be anti flea and worm stuff?), catteries for when we go away.
I got scared.
Nah, mate, we don’t have dingoes either.
But drop bears, oh my god! It’s why my cats are indoor only.
I don’t add up. I just pat them and love them. If I add up, I’ll cry.
It can get scary…
Over the last year, I’ve spent a little over US$3900* on the dogs and cats. But that number includes two elderly cats tiping over into the final decline and eventually being euth’d. Otherwise it’d have only been about US$2.5K.
*Why, yes - I do have an accountant. Why do you ask…? 
I’m sorry, but I adore this statement!
Pet saga #3 for the week. Wylie’s brother, Andy DuFresne, was skunked tonight. I love living in the country.
StG
Well, at least it will be cheaper to fix than a coyote attack.
Sheesh. Something new every day, eh?
BTW, where I work, what your vet did for your Wylie would have set you back at least $600. And a skunked dog can’t come closer to the building than the parking lot.
Here’s to living in the country!
SeaDragonTattoo - My vet is wonderful. He’s semi-retired and moved to Tennessee from Oregon. He and his wife are both vets. His wife worked in his clinic and was a struggling single mom. He put her through vet school and they work together now. He’s the one who told me he’d fix the tom cat from teh pound for free. Every year during kitten season he and the staff take in stray kittens and rehome them. He’s a down-to-earth country vet.
StG
Our Mags has been skunked twice.
The first time, I wasn’t surprised. We lived in a housing addition on the edge of town that backed up to a giant field with a pond.
The last time was in our privacy-fenced back yard. In the middle of town.
Skunks are everywhere!
The pound called me today, since this is the day the tomcat would be eligible for adoption. They said they wouldn’t adopt him out because of his temperament. I explained that feral and mean was what i was looking for, but the woman said they were afraid he’d injure me. Liability issue, I guess. They did say they’d be happy to help me find a good barn cat, one that is wild but not that wild. I was really hoping to be able to help a cat no one else would help.
StG
That’s just - wrong. My shelter deals with TNR on ferals all the time. While we don’t admit them into the shelter or “adopt” them out, we certainly do re-home ferals to new colonies when necessary. If they give him to you in a trap, I don’t see what the problem is. You obviously are well aware that you can’t touch him and would have to re-trap and sedate him for vet care. We would rather see him outside and happy even if it would be a shorter life, if there’s someone to house and feed him, there’s no reason to put him down.
That’s really sad.
Monday night my standard poodle, Maggie, came up lame. three-legging, but still running around. Last night the leg was swollen, but still running around and seemed happy enough. She has a vet appointment for tonight. I hope it’s not broken.
Cha-Ching!
StG
St. Germain, I hope you don’t mind me hijacking your thread but a pet related accident happened to me yesterday which may highlight a potential danger area for pets.
Late yesterday in the afternoon I sat down at the outside setting to have a beer and contemplate the universe. It has a small table comprised of slats with a narrow gap between them- similar to a lot of such settings. Keyser Soze (three legged cat) jumped up on the table to be with me and fell asleep. He doesn’t normally get up there but he was being a sook.
After about 15 minute I went back inside and was in the games room. He made a few meows but he tends to have nightmares when he is asleep so I didn’t take much notice. I went into the kitchen and as I watched he seemed to fall backwards from the table. I went out to ensure he was okay and noticed that his collar was still on the table. This intrigued me as I hadn’t taken it off.
Then it started to dawn on me. The tag on his collar had fallen down between the slats and turned sideways. As such it was wedged under the table and he was more or less tied to the table via his collar. That was the meowing. Eventually he had managed to back out of it and fallen backwards from the table doing so- the collar stayed lodged on the table.
I was really lucky he didn’t strangle himself. It was a collar with elastic segments so it did stretch which in itself must have helped.
So close. He is the most accident prone pet I have seen.
My vet was just able to put up a brand new building this year…:smack:
We have coyotes around here-but I guess none of them are dumb enough to make a nuisance of themselves in the trailer park, and the ones I’ve seen either alive or as roadkill always seem well-nourished.
My guess would be that the coyotes were in the barn after the rats…and Wylie didn’t like those wild doglike things in his space, so he went off on them-while they were cornered.
Coyotes that are well-fed and not rabid will mostly back off from any kind of a fight.
What’s the verdict? How’s she doing?
What kind of feed do you have your horse on, StGermain?