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There are different ethical approaches to this question. Your personal financial circumstances and the choices you face for potentially different uses for the money matter. That said, I would encourage you to pursue every avenue to have the leg fixed. It's relatively cheap.If you reflect a bit and think you don't want to do it, or can't afford it, take the dog to an organization or person who will help it and relieve you of your responsibility. Don't kill it.To give you an idea of the state of veterinary medicine, I had a german shepherd puppy Amelia that had recently invented a game of spinning around on a bed as fast as she could. She was already big, and the forces would move the bed across the floor.One night at 3 am we were awakened by a horrible set of noises. She had managed to crash through a large second story window, and it turned out that she had impaled herself on a cut-back holly tree below.I lifted her off the tree--it went about 12 inches deep, but fortunately it was lodged outside of her rib cage. I was told this fortunate occurrence likely happened because of her well-developed musculature from exercise.It was pitch dark. I was barefoot on broken glass, so we didn't see until later, but she had severed her Achilles' tendon and the artery next to it. We didn't know about this problem until we were in the light of the 24 hour vet's ER, and saw the blood with each heartbeat.The surgery was long and expensive, but Amelia made a full recovery and was able to regain her speed and leaping ability. The vet was obviously a little surprised and relieved when we said to go ahead and do what they could to help her.This was about ten years ago. Amelia has since passed on. The surgery and recovery cost me about a month's wages. I don't miss the money at all, and am very glad I had that time with her.I once thought I would never spend more money on a pet than it might take to save a human life (I mean a stranger, here). But it doesn't necessarily work out like that. The dog is a part of your life, or at least should be, in a way that can easily transcend even the bonds we feel toward other people. Do what you can to save your pet.I imagine that almost anyone can find and afford a solution that is better for the dog than death.

You would need a graft from a wee baby giraffe. Milk and ice cream might fly, for a while. If the tongue grows you will choke eventually, but long before that the new tongue would die from rejection. As for eating fried shrimp and USA fast food, I suppose it would taste either bland or awful. Tongue and nose work together, but a giraffe nose would turn you into a social pariah. I would prefer vegetarian diet with human tongue. I’ve seen giraffe handle thorns and leaves that could damage or severely poison humans. Heart transplants cause changes, so I wouldn’t rule out you sampling the magnolia or holly tree.This is assuming the nerve connections are similar or workable and properly done. I wonder if veterinary medical doctors answer questions like this? If so, perhaps this answer is worth much less.Some humans cannot stand the sound of other people chewing quietly (really). They must eat alone, perhaps prefer soup. I saw a movie trailer once where an alien creature fetched something far down the table using his very long grasping tongue and a human paramilitary type said irritably “The next time you do that I am going to cut your tongue off.”I have not tested salad dressings on giraffe greens, but I think some giraffes might like some dressings. Pet cats are surprising too. Otto likes pineapple greens, see on Youtube. I had a cat who liked olives and one who liked fresh yellow banana peel.The giraffe tongue secretions, if any, and your own saliva might not be compatible with one another and with other mouth tissues generally. Plus it is a very difficult surgery and difficult to accomplish aseptically.

Thank you, Ken Humphrey, for your question, “Do cats tend to have problems with Christmas trees?”My immediate thought is that no, a cat has no problem whatsoever with a Christmas tree, especially a real one. Artificial ones are tolerable. The problem with cats and Christmas trees tends to be the human’s response to the cat and the tree. Let me relate a personal experience to explain the problem involving cats and Christmas trees.When I lived in Labrador City I had to board my Barraclaugh when I’d fly home for the summer or for the Christmas holidays. Barry was a great cat. He spent much time with one particular family for, if I recall, three summers and two Christmases. Something changed for the family, though, so I had to find another family to look after him during his last Christmas in the near north. I found what I thought was the ideal family, great people, a stable family, very caring.Barry at Christmas in 1982 after moving to Ontario from Labrador:Imagine my surprise, then, when I came back to Lab. City to get Barraclaugh and bring him home to his apartment. I was told that Barry could NEVER stay with the family again. I asked why, especially since I really liked the family. Apparently it had something to do with Christmas that had made Barry unwelcome.Cats like the smell of real trees and are attracted to them. Cats also like height - getting up where they can view all the surroundings. Well, Barraclaugh was a true cat in regards to those two traits. I learned he had climbed the Christmas tree and, with his weight at the top, it tipped over and landed on the presents. NOT A GOOD THING from the boarding family’s point of view! My parents had a small artificial tree mounted atop a box. No cat would want to climb such a puny little tree.Barry had to adapt. He lived to enjoy nine more Christmases in Ontario and never again knocked over a tree. Here he is eight Christmases later enjoying a box that a gift came in. He saw the box as the best gift a cat could receive!Now I think I should mention some other concerns relating to cats and Christmas trees. Oils produced by some real trees can be mildly toxic to cats. Those oils likely will not kill a cat, but a cat could get a very upset stomach as a result. Furthermore, cats being the curious critters they are, tended to get a bit excited when a Christmas tree gets put up.Besides the possibility of tipping the tree over there are decorations and tinsel which are extremely hazardous if swallowed. The cat sees these as toys and plays with them, frequently chewing and swallowing them - and you will, I am sure, not to pay a high vet bill to have the tinsel removed from the cat’s innards. Furthermore, some of the old Christmas lights heat up and could burn a cat’s nose or paw while investigating the brightly colored light.Another concern relates to potted Christmas trees. The cat sees the earth in the pot as a potential litter box and may use the earth as it would a litter box for a pee or pooper-whooper. You might not like how that smells up the room.Along with Christmas trees some families decorate with snow globes and poinsettia plants. Cats and kittens get curious about these things as well. Kittens and young cats often like to try chewing decorative plants. Poinsettias are mildly toxic. Holly, mistletoe, and amaryllis are much more dangerous and have the potential to kill and lilies are also bad news.Snow globes can be intriguing but, if broken, could kill a cat. Why? Because they contain ethylene glycol, commonly known as antifreeze, which is highly toxic to pets and can kill them. There is a strong possibility that a cat playing with and breaking a snow globe may swallow some of the sweet tasting ethylene glycol or get some on its fur which it may subsequently be licked.So, to a cat a Christmas tree presents a beautiful prospect for adventure and play, but we humans who serve our cats must be aware of all the possible risks and do our best to cat-proof Christmas.For further reading please see:Keep Your Cat Safe at Christmas | Blue Cross.How To Cat-Proof Your Christmas Tree This Holiday | PETABoth of the above contain great suggestions for cat-proofing your home at Christmas.I write many Quora articles about cats. Feel free to click on my profile to see them and hopefully read some. Hopefully you will find articles that are helpful and enjoyable.Thank you for taking the time to read this.I try to answer questions I think I can effectively answer but may pass if I don’t know the answer, or if I have previously answered a very similar question, or someone else may have answered the question as well or better than I could, or the answer can be found easily by googling the topic. I hope you understand and are not offended if I don’t post an answer to your question(s). At present, following my surgery, I am trying to limit my posts to one a week, however I am also trying to clear out a backlog of good questions from when I was away from Quora.