Arizona Golden Rescue

We first saw 12-032 Rayce, who now answers to Luke, at the end of March 2012 on the second day of our garage sale after two AGR members had picked him up from the Westside MCACCS shelter. We all noticed right away that he “walked funny.” Indeed he did, as he had little in the way of hip structure – the left hip was not in a socket at all and the right was in only about 2 mm. Surgery, of course, was necessary, the procedure of choice being a femoral head ostectomy (FHO). Since the left side was the worst, that one was done first; Luke is now recovering and getting stronger every day thanks to daily rehab walks by his adopter. The evaluation and first surgery amounted to over $2700. He had his other hip done just before August 2012; the bill for the second surgery was $2200.