your poor dog..

Boo ******* hoo, some guy took his own hard earned money and paid for something they care about's health instead of listening to some dumb **** on the internet and giving it to charity. What about people who spend hundreds of thousands more to buy a bigger house, even though they don't really a house that big? Shouldn't they have given their money to charity? What about billionaires who spend their money on playboy bunny slaves? How many little African kids would you save if he gave all his money to charity? Face it you dumb *****, giving your money to charity is an option, stop making it seem like this guy was obligated to do it just because he spent money on his dog. You know what else people do? They spend loads of money buying food for their dogs! And pfft, we ALL know dogs don't need food! They should have spend that money on some poor kids in Africa with AIDS to let them live a few more days even though they're already on death row because no amount of money even in your stupid ******* idealistic bubble could save them all. Grow the **** up.

I can't believe how many heartless people are on here. For anyone saying "why don't you JUST get a new dog? or "why would you spend that much on an animal", you are the ******* scum of the earth. Would you tell someone who lost their baby to just get a new one? Yeah, to some people, pets are like children.

wow. that is ridiculous. who does that, honestly? I wish I had 15 grand to waste. YDI!!!

people go to great lengths for their animals, sucks that he dies though after all, verry sorry :/

Tbh, if my pet was sick with a serious disease like cancer and very little chance of survival, I think I'd just put it down instead of making it suffer. FYL though OP, because you just lost a friend :(

My dog has cancer. The chemo costs $1,500 at most. There is a more powerful chemo that costs a lot more but it also makes the dog feel ill. YDI if you put your dog through that just for another couple of months. F your dog's life.

You do realize that vets are pretty much used car salesmen, right? My friend's cat got diagnosed with feline leukemia on pretty much no evidence, and the test cost $250. Some of us told her to get a second opinion, and the test to discover that it was a false positive also cost $250. Yay for a Lexus payment!

It was surgery, not chemo. He wouldn't have survived radiation or chemo. $15,000 was for the entire process, from diagnosis to surgery and recovery in the clinic afterwards. It included a 4 day vet stay to perform an ultra-sound, x-ray (surgery would be pointless if the cancer had spread), colonoscopy, endoscopy and biopsy. Then there was the surgery and another 6 days in the clinic for recovery with 24-hour supervision and some pretty hefty painkillers and antibiotics. My dog suffered no more after surgery then he would have for any other common surgery like spaying/neutering, twisted stomach, etc.

honestly, if the dog was suffering, it was great of you to try to save his life and all, but dogs don't respond real well to cancer treatments. the right thing to do would be to put him out of his misery. :(

u shud've just taken it outside in the backyard, played with it for an hour, like fetch or something then when it wasn't looking just shot it, and put it out of its misery.

$15k on a pet? I wonder how many starving African children that will feed. That is an excessive amount of money on a pet, so YDI. Human lives are always more important than an animal's life. If you find yourself spending more on your cat or dog than you would on a human being, something is wrong with your values.