Re: [pyrnet] Re: Hip certification procedure - correction

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/27/2003 11:28:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, levoy@bellsouth.net writes:

> That didn't come out right.  My vet says that the fault often lies with 
> the vets who don't properly weight the dog and use the correct drug.  To 
> put it in laymen's terms for me, she said that some drugs are so 
> concentrated that it is easy to be off the dosage AND some drugs are 
> easier to "bring the dog up and down in levels of sleep".
> HLE wrote:


All that being said, with everything going perfect, a small percentage will die from the procedure.  The percentage is very low, but there nonetheless.  Why risk it at all when diligence will find a vet who has the skills to do the x-rays without the anesthesia?  This will probably (should) also mean that the procedure is less expensive as well.  

Joe