A DOTING dog owner in a frantic race to save her cancer-stricken pooch is begging people to donate towards his £16,000 life-saving surgery and treatment costs.
Claire – who received the grim diagnosis on June 5 – was gutted upon realising that her pet insurance policy would cover neither the £10,000 radiotherapy bill, nor the £6,000 brain surgery to remove the tumour close to her pet’s right eye.“The consultant oncologist has said that Barney has an excellent chance of making a full recovery if he has surgery followed by radiotherapy – BUT this treatment MUST start immediately as the tumour is so large.
Although she has a “very respectable job” at the Department of Food and Environmental Affairs , her salary and savings were not enough to cover an additional thousands of pounds in cancer treatment costs for Barney.