Kapolei family’s best friend gets stem cell treatment
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Cristina Miliaresis, owner of Surf Paws, makes an incision in Kumba's left shoulder, where she will extract fat for stem cells.
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Kumba's owner, Rumi Hospodar, watches through a window as her sedated dog is carried back from surgery.
Kumba, a 13-year-old Rottweiler/Labrador mix, has had trouble moving for the past five years because of severe arthritis in his hips.
But that could change with medical technology.
“He thinks like a puppy, but can’t act like one and it has taken a real toll on our family,” said owner Rumi Hospodar of Kapolei. “Kumba is on the older side, but he still has much more life in him.”
Thanks to a new stem cell therapy procedure offered at Surf Paws Animal Hospital in Hawaii Kai, Kumba might be able to act like a puppy again without pain, Hospodar said today.
