I had a dog get his achilles tendon cut when he was a pup, we took him to the vet and they were talking about charging A LOT of money and at the time we didnt know if it was worth spending a lot of money on him. The vet told us to heal his wound but that he wouldnt be the same of course because his tendon was cut....well he healed alright, hunted just as well as the others, ran as fast as the others. You could never tell unless you looked really close and could see that one foot was angled a tad bit lower than his other one but you had to really look close. He passed away this year at 6 years old and he never had any problems with his foot. I guess the difference is that he was young when he got injured. But, he was just as good as any of our other dogs.
Heres a pic back on 08 so you see you cant even tell of his injury.
