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Pets & Working Animals => Dogs => Topic started by: knightquest on December 02, 2010, 06:33:36 pm
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One of our Leo's had to have his tail removed today. It seems that it took a knock and had an infection which was spreading up the tail. The vet says that they had never seen anything like it and hoped to only remove half of it but had to take all but a couple of inches as the infection was so bad.
Poor lad. He's only just had his nuts off too....................He must hate that place :(
We've given him loads of hugs and a nice warm blanket so he should be comfortable tonight.
Chin up Gazer.
Ian
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poor boy.
we have a cat with a stump not a tail - he didnt seem at all bothered by the op, and was hilarious when he was high on drugs!!
good luck that your lad will be the same
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Now you know why gundogs tails should be docked at birth. I am so glad my boys are natural bobtails, and one of my girls too, because we aren't allowed to dock now. Only the oldest two girls are docked.
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just wondering how gundogs would injure their tails when working? i know my friends whippet hurt her tail an took ages to heal.
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Gundogs especially Spaniels work cover brambles thickets etc and wage there tails with sheer delight can damage there tails, as you say can take a very long time to heal and in the case of a working dog which does not have the luxury of any great time to heal because of its work commitments .Amputation my be the only alternative.
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hi how is gazer getting on? :wave:
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Hello Faith, thanks for asking and I hope you are getting better too. :)
Gazer is doing very well thanks. I slept on the floor with him on the first night to stop him 'chobbling' his tail. ::)
We were worried that the vet hadn't got all the infection during the op but he has since had a look and he thinks that Gazer is doing real well as it is a really big operation. Trouble is, the dummy keeps banging the end of his 'stump' and makes it bleed. You wouldn't believe how much he jumps around when he's excited.
Still it's good that he's getting his spark back.
He's due to have his stitches out next Wednesday.........if we can get him back in the vets :D
Ian
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Now you know why gundogs tails should be docked at birth.
>:(
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bles him glad he is doing ok, im taking so many tablets i will be rattling soon, but still cant walk unaided, time is a great healer eh.
hope it goes :wave:ok when he has his stitches out
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Trouble is, the dummy keeps banging the end of his 'stump' and makes it bleed. You wouldn't believe how much he jumps around when he's excited.
Still it's good that he's getting his spark back.
;D I know what you mean.... our little cat kept losing the whole dressing - a tube of sticky bandage with tufts of fur at the end! The vet put the plastic of a big syringe on to protect it. He'd wake us up by tapping it on the end of the bed, as his "bedtime" dose of painkillers seem to send him off the planet... the pupils in his eyes were HUGE!!
good to hear Gazer is doing well, I hope he is insured?! (our cat wasn't ::) )
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He's insured for the tail but we've just found out that he wasn't insured when he had to have the skin around his testicles (obviously his testicles too ::) ) removed. We changed insurers and because we had mentioned his sore testes before, we were not covered :P
Gazer had a bandage around his tail for a while until it disappeared one day..........it turned up a few days later, complete fortunately, in one of our other dogs poo! - Naughty Boris!! :o
Ian