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Article: Biting the pocketbook.(Short Takes: English springer spaniels and aggressive behavior; an expensive knee problem)(rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament)(Brief article)
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- Dog Watch
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Six words strike fear into the hearts of dog owners who have limped down that painful road with their pets: rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament.
The most common injury to the dog knee happens so often that veterinarians have a shorthand term, RCCL. And now they have a national, annual price tag, as reported in the same issue of JAVMA (Vol. 227,No. 10).Dog owners spent an estimated $1.32 billion for treatment of RCCL in the United States in 2003.
Since Elizabeth Cady Standard Poodle, the ...