$45,000.
They cancelled a kitchen remodel to do it.
Those are some people who love their dog. 
Glad to see the doggie’s health is improving. Now let’s hope he doesn’t choke on a squeeze toy…
One of my co-workers had a similar issue with her dog. I don’t recall the details but she ended up getting two more dogs as donors (the first one she got wasn’t a match apparently), and has spent thousands to try to cure her dog. It looks like it will ultimately be unsuccessful.
You know, for about $5K more, they could have had their dog cloned.
Wow! Even I’m a little surprised they went to those lengths, although my family has spent quite a bit of money on our dog over the last few years for various expensive medical problems (several tumor removals, cataract surgery, a week long stay in the doggie version of ICU). The way we look at it, our dog has been more loyal to us than a lot of human beings have so we’ll do what we can for her.
Of course, we haven’t spent anything close to the amount that these people did. $45k for a dog would be way beyond our means even as much as we love her. Still, I’m glad it sounds like it was successful for these people and that other dogs may benefit from it.
Hey, if they can afford to do it, I dont see anything wrong with it. Makes at least as much sense as spending that kind of money on clothes or fancy jewelry as other rich folks do.
I love my dog. But… not that much.
Of course, I’m not $45,000 worth of enthusiastic about kitchens, either.
45k for a dog.
A dog.
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sigh My dog died of lymphoma. It sucks that there would have been a way to treat him if we’d only had $45,000. :rolleyes: Well, it was his own damn fault anyway for eating all those rotten alewives that washed up on the beach every spring.
I completely agree. In Hollyweird, it’s nothing to spend $45k on a gold trinket. If they can afford it, then I say, good on them!
Good Lord. I hope thats a working dog!
After $45K of repairs, the damn thing BETTER work! 
So what is it OK to spend $45,000 on? A car? Jewelry? A kitchen? But not a dog? How about a racehorse, then?
If it’s their money, I guess they can spend it how they want, huh? And believe it or not, sometimes vet schools and med schools get together and do these kinds of things in animals to see if they work before doing it in humans. Just a few years ago there was a big study done by Penn on bone cancer in dogs, in the hopes that the treatments they developed would help children with bone cancer. So the stuff they find out helps everyone.
How much is that doggie in the window?!
Every loving pet is worth a million dollars. 
And hey, if this works, who knows what the possibilities could be for humans?
Wow, we made it to post 15 without getting a “they could have spent that money on the starving kids of Africa!”.
Good on them. I hope this opens the door to this sort of treatments for all sorts of other animals including Humans.
Eh, we had some clients a month or so ago spend $19,000 on a dog that didn’t have a shot in hell of getting better. We kept telling them there was nothing to be done for the poor thing, and they still wanted to keep going. We had a betting pool on who was going to die first, the dog or the Pope. At least this time the dog’s going to make it.
Of course, lymphoma tends to respond to chemo pretty well, so I’m a bit surprised they didn’t go that route.
Really? When they diagnosed our dog with lymphoma, Mom told us that the options were either give him huge doses of chemo that would cause him to suffer without knowing why and weren’t likely to effect a full remission, or give him small doses that would keep the cancer in check enough to keep him comfortable until he eventually had to be put to sleep. But maybe it had already advanced too far at that point; we took him in to the vet because his throat was swollen. He had very long, thick fur, so we didn’t notice until it was VERY swollen.
My family had a dog, Sam, that got lymphoma around the age of 12, and that’s what my parent’s decided to do. IIRC, his cancer never fully went into remission, but the chemo and steroid treatments kept it in check for about a year and a half. He never had any real suffering until the last few days of his life. I’m not sure exactly how much money the spent on his treatment, but I think it was around $6000.
I agree with this statement, but most people simply could not afford to do this for a dog, no matter the prognosis.
From the article linked in the OP: