The owners of a cancer-stricken Langley, B.C. dog are trying to find the dog’s siblings hoping to obtain compatible stem cells that could prolong his life, reports the Vancouver Sun. The treatment is expected to cost US$10,000-$15,000.
People will pay a high price for their pets’ well-being because dogs are part of the family, according to UBC emeritus professor and dog expert Stanley Coren.
“We treat them very much like children. The average dog has a mind equivalent to a human two- to three-year-old and we recognize that and we talk to our dogs the same way we would talk to young kids,” said Coren.
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