Those work great.

When the sows farrrowed during planting or harvesting and we didn’t get around to docking the hog’s tails until they were too big just put one of those around the base and in a few days or so they just fall off. No blood no muss no fuss.

Our Anatolian had the same thing happen. Had to get it lopped off.

Sharp knife and its done.

Alvarado Vet would probably be cheaper.

And if not Alvarado Vet, I can almost guarantee Bosque County Veterinarian Clinic in Meridian would be cheaper. I'm not sure if Mark Jackson is still the owner there, but he's a good dude and the younger male vet that was working there when we had to put Oreo down in October 2022 is excellent as well. The female vet that works there is cool, but not as detail oriented in my opinion as Dr. Jackson and the other guy. They have always been reasonable on their pricing. We started using them about 10 years ago.

[censored] I’ll do it for grand . Half price cut your losses bring him on over it’s just a tail .
I’ll even get my buddies to make him some special brownies for pain med he’ll be begging for you to bring him back over !

Poor thing. I hope she’s recovers quickly

I second Alvarado Vet Clinic. Great people, and they have about 5 Vets working at all times. (good lookin too)

Nicky, That almost makes me want to bring my dog over.( less the grand and the tail cutting) Just the brownies.

You need a good country vet.
No reason it won’t heal completely. Heck I’ve had dogs legs, tails, and one I had to have part of a lower jaw removed and they all healed fine. Your vet is a crook.

Only place I take my two dogs. Main vet we use, Dr. Kevin Beam played QB and in the HOF at Hardin Simmons. He always gives me an educators discount.

MadChad made his 13-14 year old daughter run the router to unplug the pipes after she put some feminine stuff in the commode and fouled things up. He posted about it here.

I thought that is where this thread was going.

Pretty sure he made her pull the toilet to get it...as he should have!

Update on the dog. While the wife and I were finishing out duck season Sunday morning, the dog decided to take care of the tail herself. She chewed the damaged 4" off and ate it.... There was some stuff hanging out of it and the wife was distraught, so I took her to the emergency vet. I figured the dog was fine by the way she was acting, but I had to get out of the house. The vet said it's not uncommon for some dogs to do that. She had just treated a dog that tried chewing its leg off after it had just had surgery on it.

I dropped her off for the scheduled amputation this morning, but the surgery tech came out and said, that since she chewed the injured section off, they are going to see if they can button it up there and avoid the full amputation. I guess we will see. The estimate she showed me this morning was for $1200, but with all the other appointments, bandaging, and the emergency vet visit, we are well over $2K into this stupid tail deal.