Replying to a message of Matt Munson to All:

 MM> Hello everybody.

 MM> My dog is going under surgery at age 3 months for the umbilical and
 MM> thoratic hernia and doing the neutering at the same time. That is
 MM> going to be an expensive adventure.

I know the feeling.  I laid out just over $1,800 to the vet this year.  In
January of 2007
I laid out $1,500 on one dog - she'd been in a fight and spent about a week
at the vet's.

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