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Thank you both. My sister has a greyhound who broke his leg young, and while he has a bad limp and can't run, he is still a very happy dog so that gives us some comfort. Encouraging to hear they can make better recoveries than that too. Of course we are really hoping it won't need to be amputated, and a limp would not be the end of the world, but a full recovery would be incredible.
We are thankfully insured up to £10k so assuming they don't try and fuck us over, we should be ok on that. Been given an estimate of £2.5k for the hospital stay, x rays, sedation etc before any possible surgery costs so I can see how it would quickly get huge. We had been about to buy a new (old) car, which we can make do without if necessary, so between that and the insurance, we are lucky that I think we can be confident the cost won't stop him getting whatever he needs.
I think it might also have been a rabbit hole or something similar. He was certainly running at full pelt which as a fit and quite large whippet is very, very fast. He was a hundred meters away so I didn't see exactly what happened but he pulled up very very suddenly and begun screaming. Feeling extremely guilty as the one who threw the ball and told him to fetch it.