The cost of treating your pets

Published: 8:17PM Monday June 15, 2009 Source: Close Up

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What happens when your beloved pet gets seriously ill?

Do you automatically get them the treatment they need or put them down?

It has become a very valid question.

Vets can do so much more these days, a hip replacement, tumour removal, a kidney transplant, whatever your animal's ailment there is probably a vet who can fix it.

The trouble is that expertise comes at a price.

Gill Higgins looks at the expensive decisions facing a labrador's owner.

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