Hopefully pet owners understand (Dedicated to pets) ??

Enjoying some time walking the banks of the River Tweed with the wee boy,

So sorry for your loss, we lost our 12 year old bulldog in August as well. Hang in there and try to remember the happy times.

Yes, the surgery went quite well thanks. This is what they removed from his stomach:



So not a beach nut after all, but it was a stick, along with a ball of fibers (they pulled it apart to make sure there was nothing else inside it). We think it might be some stuffing from the bed in his cage (we put him in a cage overnight - that's his den and safe place). So we'll have to get a new bed for that. The incision wasn't small, that's for sure:



But he has his Fentanyl patch on, so seems happy and is eating well - he normally eats kibble but we have some wet food that we make into a slurry and are feeding him small amounts every couple of hours:



Unlike our other Whippet Raven, who we lost this summer, Remi has never really gone off his food or been a troublesome eater. He's always hungry so that's a good thing because trying to get Raven to eat was very stressful as she was always losing weight.

My wife pulled out some mattresses and slept on the floor in the living room with him last night:



Not sure she got a lot of sleep though!

So in addition to removing the foreign objects, the vet took biopsies of the liver (he has had slightly elevated liver enzymes recently), the pancreas, and 3 locations of the intestines. It appears he has some sort of inflammatory thing going on in the intestines, so we think this might be the problem underlying all of this. His increased drinking and eating sticks and fabric may be his way of trying to sooth an upset gut. So when those results are back, he may have to go on some meds for that (hopefully it's that simple). He also is showing signs of Cushings disease, with some elevated levels on a test I can't remember the name of right now, plus one adrenal gland was enlarged as noted during the surgery.

For right now the main thing is keeping him comfortable, getting all the antibiotics in him, and making sure he doesn't do anything that might cause the sutures in his intestines to break open - having sewn up the inflamed tissues, that was the vets major short term concern.

Thanks for all the support guys - not sure I could deal with losing another dog so soon after we lost Raven this summer...

Cheers, Al

Happy Holidays from a not so happy looking Cooper, first Christmas with us, 2010.

Remi just got back from his follow-up appointment with the vet. They removed his Fentanyl patch, so hopefully he won't have any pain problems going forward - he's looked very perky the last few days and not very bothered by it all, but that may just be the meds.

His belly is very bruised from the clamps they used during the surgery and just generally so hopefully that will improve over the next week. He's eating well and all functions are working as they should. He has been remarkably resilient through this so far!

Daughters taking the old boy for his Christmas present,




Are we there yet ?


You wish sunshine 😉


Yes please,

Sounds like good news, hope all will be well for him in the New Year.