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My Lola has a partial ACL tear
Hello everyone,
Looking for some advice. Looks like my lab Lola has a partial tear of her ACL. Not sure how it happened but she loves playing fetch and she loves jumping off my deck :( so I'm sure that it happened during play time. She limps, especially after laying down. She's not crying or whining from any pain. Once she walks for a min or so, she wants to start hopping and running around. She is 20 months old. The vet I took her gave me an estimate of $3,000 to repair the partial tear. This particular vet performs the tight rope technique.
Obviously this gave me sticker shock. The cheapest ACL surgeries seem to be the ones that perform the suture stabilization which are typically around $1,000 - 1,500. I'm looking for suggestions from this board on what I should do? I've read stuff that even with surgery, dogs still may have issues and it looks like after a tear or partial tear regardless of repair, the dog is 70% more likely to tear the other ACL or at some point, could tear the same one.
Has anyone done the surgery? Thoughts on it? Have some gone a different direction like a holistic approach? Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks