Have just seen this survey by Tiscali on the supposedly sickliest breeds and average vets costs over their lifetime.Some of the breeds listed are,lets say,slightly strange looking!
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/money/galleries/view/money/thecostofadogoveritslifetime/browse/526070

well, the beagle is a bassett hound but the rest looked ok

Hm the English Setter looks a lot like a Golden Retriever !

the setter doesnt look like a setter to me, more like some retriever, and the pointer looks like a vizsla.

The most costly dog re vet fees I've had in rescue (still have him) is a GD who had Wobbler's. Between tests, the actual OP (dorsal bone removal), hydro therapy etc his bill came well to 3000 Euro and that is with rescue discount at the specialist vets.

LOL :)
Funny looking beagle and agree the setter isnt a setter

The Pointer isn't a Pointer either.  One of the characteristics that attracted me to GSPs is that they have relatively few breed health problems.

why do they always have to show a mean looking doberman????  ARG

Anyways, I wouldnt trust this at all, I mean those are some of the worst dogs to the breed standard that I have ever seen!  The beagle is too long, the english setter doesnt have the right coat, and the pointer, I didnt know they came in red LMAO. 

What a load of rubbish..

The setter looks to be a US type golden retriever (maybe?), the dane doesnt look quite right, the pointer isnt one its a viszla, the poodle could be any number of breeds or x breeds, the beagle is a basset...

And a st bernard cheapest?.... mm!

The Pointer isn't a Pointer either.

Indeed, the pointer is a hungarian vizsla! 

Blimey they have left the mastiff off who have to be one of the costliest!!! A not very accurate thing I would say.

Yes that "Setter" is either a US Golden or a working bred UK one. As for the Poodle!!!! and the Dobermann!

Poodle? There is a poodle?  Hang on, off to have a look....

ETA: Poor wee thing, needs a good bath.  Average lifespan of 12 years?  Since when?

This looks like the teaboy was told to think up a story and find some pictures..what a load of junk and doesn't reflect the breeds the insurance companies won't touch - which are, of course, the real high risk breeds to insure.

>Indeed, the pointer is a hungarian vizsla!

Is it standard for them to have blue eyes? It made me wonder if it was Vizsla crossed with a Weim?

Funny looking Great Dane too.
Love the piture of the Rottie though.

Those all look like standard stock photos bought from an image supplier. I'm amazed at how many dogs are labeled with the wrong breed when I'm looking at stock photography. The web designer will have just searched for the breed names and picked a photo without a clue about what they were looking at.

> The web designer will have just searched for the breed names and picked a photo without a clue about what they were looking at

Just like the leaflet sent out by Birmingham City Council to their proud residents, showing a photo of Birmingham...Alabama woops

> Just like the leaflet sent out by Birmingham City Council to their proud residents, showing a photo of Birmingham...Alabama woops

now that is bad!

> Just like the leaflet sent out by Birmingham City Council to their proud residents, showing a photo of Birmingham...Alabama woops

*snort* good grief!

I do wish they hadn't used that picture of the dobe. :-( the pic itself is bad enough, but with the giant chain collar too... *sigh*

As for the money side of it - that I can well believe!  Seems to be pot luck - some people never have any trouble, some people have no trouble then lose their dobe all of a sudden, and others like me have trouble almost from the start!  Just looking at my two dobes:

Remy - had him 5 years.  He has colour mutant alopecia; hypothyroidism; and weight issues which means I've had to try him on Burns as nothing else will shift the weight.  He bashed his shoulder two years ago and it took him 6 months to recover (which is what triggered the weight problem).

Soli - Oy.  Where to start... hypothyroidism (and a bad case too); she lost a toe in June to suspected osteosarcoma, which turned out to be an as yet unexplained inflammatory problem with the tendon sheath.  That cost just shy of £500 - and oh joy, it's now cropped up on the same toe on the other foot!  Currently on antiinflammatories, which have made no difference.  Next stop - another x-ray.  She also has at least 12 lumps and bumps, some of which have suddenly started growing rather quickly.  She had two bony lumps on her muzzle this time last year which needed an x-ray; also not explained in the end and cost a few hundred quid.  She's also had a heart test (although that was free as part of a scheme) - that showed reduced contractility, which fortunately was put down to the hypothyroidism.  Oh, and she has been incontinent since she was spayed.

I won't try and add it all up - I wouldn't dare :-P but in an average month they both cost me £45 in meds alone (some is claimable though).

I wouldnt think of half of those breeds should you ask what i thought was the most expensive (vet wise). And why the 'aggressive' picture of the dobe???

Some doofus is obviously sat in his office wondering what he should do today :0$

> well, the beagle is a bassett hound but the rest looked ok

yeah wondered about that...

also wondered about how they got this data... because for example if its for dogs across the board (rather than just pets) a lot of those are breeds that work (beagle, pointer- bit loose there to, setter, poss even rottie...) so vet bills are more likely to be for injury (through work) than being 'sickly'

also how much is from health tests?

silly thing.

I own a Wiemaraner who is 8 now...I reckon in vets bills so far she has cost me over a grand for every year she has been alive and will do till the day she dies.
I also own a 1 year old WHV with allergies to dust mites and grass pollen....shes cost me just over a grand too and will cost more as long as the allergy presents itself.......

Thank god for insurance thats all I can say lol..........

Having said that would I swap either of them?....not a hope in hell,youd have to kill me first.