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Originally Posted by Rowan123
Since this thread has been resurrected, I'll post this for future reference.
Many rescues will help with vet costs for an owner. Some have an outreach program that does exactly that. The rescue I volunteer with has paid for amputation surgery. Other rescues will take a dog into their program that needs medical help, get the dog treated and adopt it out. Of course in this case the owners have to surrender the dog to the rescue. Usually rescues prefer the dog stay with the owner but if it's not being cared for appropriately or the owners won't be able to provide the appropriate aftercare, they will ask that the pet be surrendered to them before helping.
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In my experience with three rescues, they will cover full vetting but the owner must surrender the dog. My current rescue group primarily takes in medically needy dogs, especially ones that would be euthanized due to the cost of necessary vetting.
The family in the OP should have surrendered the dog to a rescue group to vet and adopt out to a home that would be able to care for it. This was a 5 mo. old puppy, irrc, with a (hopefully) long life ahead of him. If all they can afford is $3.50/wk they cannot afford to own a dog.
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