Healing Vibes Needed

Aldaniti

Aldaniti

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One of my dogs has managed to rip an orange sized hole in her side this evening & is now at the vets awaiting surgery first thing in the morning :( first time I've left her anywhere she's only 16mths old :(
 
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weve got a healing vibes emoticon over on the ex-racers forum - and hugs - if i put a row of these :shy: i promise its the nearest i can get - promise!!!

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hope your pup makes a quick recovery

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thought as much - wont work. Rest assured there are lots coming your way from me!!!
 
That sounds horrid. Place palm of hand 4" from a photo of doglet, if you have one, and hold for half a minute, sending love. :) Repeat after surgery.
 
Just spoken to vet nurse who has said Rosie is having the op as we speak, ringing at lunchtime to see how she is :(
 
No, she's not, is she, Kathy? If Rosie's all right, and I hope she'll be fine, we must see how Helen's getting on with finding another job - she's redundant on July 1st, as I recall. Very stressful, and I wish her well.
 
Thankyou all for your kind wishes :)

Just spoken to the vet & Rosie's op went well but she is taking her time to come round, nothing to worry about as some dogs can take a couple of days to recover whilst others inc my other dog Murphy came round & was ready to go in less than an hour after he was neutered :lol: have to ring again after 3pm but she does not see a problem with her coming home tonight :)

My last day of work is this friday which to be honest I just want to get it over with so I can move on if that makes any sense :huh: & to top it off my appointment for my next MRI has come through I'm having that the end of next month which will be 10mths since my last one & to check if my spine has deteriorated anymore :unsure:
 
Bloody hellfire! :( Well, let's hope something goes right for you!

BTW, I wonder how much your vet will sting you for? A friend of mine told me today that her neighbour's CAT has just had a tumour removed, and has been charged... wait for it... roll of drums...

£4,000! :blink:

Now, I know that vets are expensive. I know that veterinary surgery is appallingly expensive. But this is the price of a small car. The woman's covered by insurance, which makes me cynically wonder if that's why the bill is so astronomical. A tumour off a small animal like a cat? Four grand? If that's representative, no wonder thousands of pets are dumped every year. The RSPCA is fighting the wrong foe - it should be lobbying hard for vets' bills to be made reasonable to all, and not just the rich. Surely if vets are scamming animal insurance policies, there should be an investigation? I know there's the PDSA, but they're not everywhere, and not always accessible.
 
£177 which I suppose isn't too bad :blink: she's home now & fast asleep already :) need to take her back to have stiches out in 10days

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Helluva jagged-looking gash, Aldaniti. Do you know how she got it? Anyway, good to see her enjoying a gin & tonic, and I hope she's fine soon. A lovely dog, I bet that fur is soft and silky.
 
My Springer and yours were seperated at birth! :o They have identical liver splodges on the backs.

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Pleased your little lady is home and on the mend :wub:
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 28 2006, 07:25 PM
Helluva jagged-looking gash, Aldaniti. Do you know how she got it? Anyway, good to see her enjoying a gin & tonic, and I hope she's fine soon. A lovely dog, I bet that fur is soft and silky.
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Vet seems to think she ran into a sharp branch as we were in the woods with both dogs & they were doing what all springers do & thats charging about in the undergrowth, we heard a yelp & she came running back to us like that :( the wound looks completely different now its been stitched because it was round & had the skin peeled back, they had to trim it as they could not stitch it like it was :confused:

Don't talk to me about vets bills :angy: we haven't long left one surgery because they charged us FIVE consultation fees in one day for one cat :o we have a male cat that is prone to bladder blockages & he got one a few months back, we took him to the surgery at 11am & picked him up at 3.30pm the same day & it cost us £385 :what: :what: :what: all that for just sticking a chatheter up his you know what ;)
 
Lizzie is three and a half now. I was lead to believe that Springers grew up at three. I was lied to :lol:
 
Three :lol: more like 13 :o

Some of the others
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Just after we brought Rosie home :)
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Lord muck in the caravan playing gooseberry :lol:
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.....and I thought Barney was cute! B)

So glad Rosie is going to be fine Helen! I love Springers but they are just a bit too "lively" for me. That's not to say I am not considering getting one as a companion for Barney in the not too distant future.

Now I am a bone fide motorhome owner, I think I have spotted an awning in one of your photos Helen. :blink:
 
My daughter has a Yorkie 11 months old she took it to the vets because her teeth (not my daughters it would be cheaper :P) had not fallen out? (she had doubles top and bottom) which is a trait with this breed, so she had four teeth removed cost £60 ............ :teeth: :teeth: :teeth: :teeth:

These VETS have a licence to print monies now days............... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Jun 28 2006, 09:01 PM

Now I am a bone fide motorhome owner, I think I have spotted an awning in one of your photos Helen. :blink:
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Yep it was taken last summer on one of our caravan rallies :)


Merlin, a friend of mine has 3 or 4 Yorkies at any one time & she's always down the vets with one of them having something done to it teeth so I think you might be right there!


The wound is very sore & red this morning so I hope its going to be alright :(
 
Originally posted by Griffin@Jun 28 2006, 09:24 PM
Lizzie is three and a half now. I was lead to believe that Springers grew up at three. I was lied to :lol:
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You certainly were - the little buggers never grow up & are hyperactive until they reach the fat & old stage (around 11 or 12, shortly before they peg it) when all they do is lounge around sleeping & eating all day. My fool of a father has just got himself another couple of springers - both puppies (10 wks) & sisters. I told him it would all go Pete Tong but he wouldn't listen to me. He's had them about a fortnight, and already they've chewed almost everything, they're messing everywhere & can't go outside unsupervised as they've both ended up in the pool a few times. Dad's pulling his hair out & I find it highly amusing!

I still can't get used to springers with tails either, it's just not right!!
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Jun 30 2006, 09:03 AM
I still can't get used to springers with tails either, it's just not right!!
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SL, are you advocating docking? :blink:
 
I certainly am, at least in working dogs (as springers are supposed to be). Dad's two will be working gundogs and as such they should have their tails docked - springers tails are small & fairly weak and when flushing out birds in the scrub they are very susceptible to injuring the tail (often leading to infection & possible [painful] amputation), ergo it is kinder to dock it in the first place.
 
And I'll back that to the hilt - docking for genuine working dogs is the kindest thing you can do for them and I have held many, many of my Weimaraner puppies at two days old for the procedure. Plus dew claws too.

And it's absolutely no different to elective circumcisions on human beings or cosmetic surgery - it takes about 10 minutes for the puppies to settle after docking/de-dewclawing, about the time for their dam to come back in and for them to start suckling - which they do vigorously.

Luckily, under the new legislation, I will still be permitted to have my litter docked and my vet is prepared to do it as he always has.
 
I can understand the argument (though not necessarily agree with it) for allowing it to be done to genuine working dogs but I'm afraid I can't understand why anyone would want to inflict it upon a non-working dog unless for humane reasons, e.g. if the tail was damaged or causing infection.

My little heinz has a disproportionately-long tail but it is so much part of his personality. He whips and bangs it all over the house because it's always wagging and we can tell so much about him by his tail.

I can't see any correlation to elective circumcision or cosmetic surgery as suggested. I'd see it as more like cutting off kids' fingers to stop them biting their nails.

I can imagine this developing into quite an emotive debate for some.
 
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