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Originally Posted by elchivito
Make friends with a large animal vet. They make house calls and charge less.
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True but that only applies to certain treatments. If the animal has to be anesthetized, I don't know that they can do it at home. My wife can sew lacerations and has done it too. However, whether I want her to get involved with knocking out an animal is a different story. That is the trick of the sewing up of lacerations. You cannot tell the dog to "bite on a bullet" and hold still. Say you use lidocaine to numb the site, the dog will still wiggle. Also, lidocaine is one of the drugs that is used to jump start a heart. Might not be good if you simply stick it in. Beyond that, the sewing is easy. You can get a seamstress to sew it up after you get past that tricky part.