IT cost the U.S. city of Dallas more than US$26,000 to treat Nina Pham’s dog, Bentley, while the Texas nurse was being treated for Ebola.

    According to CBS News, expenses included “comfortable bedding, toys, and boarding at a decommissioned naval air base,” where the year-old King Charles spaniel was quarantined as his 26-year-old owner recovered from the deadly disease at a Maryland hospital. About two-thirds of the cost to care for Bentley will be offset by grants and donations, the city said. By comparison, Pham’s treatment cost an estimated US$110,000.

    A day after Pham’s diagnosis, Dallas Animal Services workers in hazmat gear extracted Bentley from her apartment.

    Pham was one of two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who contracted Ebola while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian man who later died from the disease.

    Bentley tested negative for Ebola last month. (SD-Agencies)