Well we got Ray neutered yesterday and he sailed thru the surgery and is pretty much back to normal.

We have an appt on july 10th with an opthamologist to look at his cataracts and help us decide about surgery.

We are now seriously fundraising (no we don’t know how to go about it) and are hoping for some help.

We obviously have space for a good party with vendors too.

The appt with the opthamologist will cost in the $300 range and that’s just to decide if it’s worth it to do the testing to find out if it’s worth it to do the cataract surgery. Testing i think is in the $500 range and actual surgery is in the $3500 range.

I have a call into that vet (East Oshawa Clinic where she works out of on alternate fridays – pls DON’T start calling there. We haven’t even met them yet) – to find out exact costs and will keep you posted.

If you’d like to help us make a fundraising party or donate either thru Paypal on the site http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/ON258.html (they do take a fee for this service) or calling us with a visa or M/C  OR once we know what the costs will be by committing to the vet clinic an amt towards the bill. Pug Angels (link is at bottom of page) is thinking of sponsoring him too.

If the surgery is more cost than value (he does really well as is but he has 4-5 good years left and shouldn’t have to be handicapped for them) we won’t do it.

Any funds collected would go to future ‘hard to adopt out dogs’ with problems due to age or imfirmity.