I was thinking this morning about Chewy(my ex-BIL's poodle that died a little while back from a hernia), and how now I have the money, and if he was still alive and it was operable, I would have given them the money to get the surgery done. I don't see why they couldn't come up with that ammount of money themselves.. maybe they didn't think it was worth it for a 9 y.o. poodle? I certainly think it would have been.