Fuzzy’s Financial Blog

My dog was hit by a car the other day. He is alright now but it was scary. He got out of the house and as I was going after him he ran across a busy street and was hit by a Isuzu Trooper so it was low to the ground and he did a number of flips under the car.

When he was out from under the car he just laid there dazed and I picked him up and hopped into the car and took him to the nearest vet since ours is about thirty minutes away. He was bleeding from his chin but nothing else noticeable.

Well we got him to the vet and he was already starting to act himself again but we took him to get checked anyways. After waiting to hear if there was any major damage we found out the he appeared ok except for the scraped chin and maybe some bruising on his left side. The wanted to run xrays(almost $300) and also keep him for observation overnight($80) and give him pain killers($40) and antibiotics($80) to the tun of $511.64 and included the $27 exam fee.

By the time they gave us the estimate he was already walking around and wanting to jump off the table or jumping on us. We decided to just pay the exam fee and monitor him ourselves and make sure there was no blood in his urine or stool, the vet suggested we use betadine to keep the wound clean. When we got back home we contacted a friend of ours who is a vet’s assistant to ask her advice and she suggested we give him some baby aspirin(Buffered aspirin) for any pain and use some polysporin ointment since she knows how fussy our dog can be sometimes and how betadine works, she also wanted to make it clear that this is just a suggestion and not medical advice. So we went and spent about $25 on baby aspirin and polysporin ointment and used that on him.

We gave him the baby aspirin following this charts advice.
Note: This is not medical advice.
Weight of dog in pounds (or kilograms) Number of tablets each 12 hours mg
8 lbs (3.6 kg) 1/2 baby aspirin or less 40 mg
16 lbs (7.2 kg) 1 baby aspirin 80 mg
32 lbs (14.4 kg) 1/2 adult or 2 baby 160 mg
48 lbs (21.6 kg) 3/4 adult or 3 baby 240 mg
64 lbs (28.8 kg) 1 adult or 4 baby 320 mg
80 lbs (36 kg) 1 1/4 adult or 5 baby 400 mg
96 lbs (43.2 kg) 1 1/2 adult or 6 baby 480 mg

In the past we have given him a benadryl for a bee sting following her advice since we were camping together and his poor chin was so swollen that time.

I am happy to say that it has been almost four days now and he is perfectly fine, unfortunately he still has no fear of the street, and still will try and run out into it if we don’t have him on a leash, which we do keep him on a leash outside of the house. There are some medicines out there that we take over the counter that dogs can take and even some for cats but they are not necessarily the same since some of what are safe for dogs are poisonous to cats.

It was a scary time and I think if we had taken him to our vet I believe she would have given close to the same since she is one of those country vets that has no issue using the less costly alternatives, still probably wanted the xrays but she would understand. I would have prefered to get the xrays and have better confidence myslef but what they want was rediculous.