some of you guys must not have the same relationship I have with my pooch. $300 in a heartbeat. $1000 wouldn't question it. Putting her down because of cancer or a tumor or a bad heart due to old age is alittle different, but if its a big bill because she got hit by a car or got a foxtail weed in her eye I would have no problem doing whatever it took. I bet you people who think its just a dog have theirs hooked up to a tree on a five foot leash