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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: Bumblebear on September 11, 2013, 07:22:17 pm

Title: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Bumblebear on September 11, 2013, 07:22:17 pm

Eli our pet wether who we adopted from 8 hours old has a urethra too tiny for him to pee through.  DH has been at the vets from 2 hours now and the only option is a cystotomy (where the urethra is diverted so he wees like a girl).  The cost?  In the region of several hundred (£500 ish).  I just cant justify this expense as there are no guarantees of his living a trouble free life afterwards.  He's at the vets now and a decision has to be made now.  :'(

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: shygirl on September 11, 2013, 07:31:09 pm

oh jeez, that so unlucky. what a crappy time you are having. what are the odds on that happening?
life will get better, im sure of it. lots of things went wrong for us a few years back in a similar way to you. i thought our farm was cursed. but you will get through it.
big hug  :hug: :hug: :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: HappyHippy on September 11, 2013, 07:32:21 pm

Oh no  :'(
I know it's a tough one but it's only you who can decide  :hug: :hug: :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: darkbrowneggs on September 11, 2013, 07:36:17 pm

So sorry  - its a hard call and only you can make it, but I think if he was mine I would have to say no to the op and have him PTS.  But its easy to say and not so easy when its you making the decision.  I don't envy you, but which ever way you decide I am sure it will be the right way  :hug: :( :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Bumblebear on September 11, 2013, 07:44:00 pm

We had him pts.   :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: HappyHippy on September 11, 2013, 07:49:59 pm

 :hug: I would have done the same I think  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: lachlanandmarcus on September 11, 2013, 07:50:59 pm

I think you did the right thing, but just sorry you had to make the decision :-(((

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Mammyshaz on September 11, 2013, 07:51:50 pm

So, so sorry  :bouquet: Surely that's the end of sad decisions and bad happenings for you. You have had such a bad year  :hug:  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: jaykay on September 11, 2013, 07:56:40 pm

Oh no, I'm so sorry  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: cans on September 11, 2013, 08:04:13 pm

 :'(  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Backinwellies on September 11, 2013, 08:24:05 pm

 :hug:  :hug:  :hug:    nothing I can say will help  so   :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: ballingall on September 11, 2013, 10:00:27 pm

Sorry to hear that, I think I would have done the same.  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Anke on September 11, 2013, 10:14:23 pm

Very sorry to read your post, but this sounds like a congenital problem, so there seems to have been not much you could have done...

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Lesley Silvester on September 11, 2013, 10:43:42 pm

You did the right thing by him.  :hug: :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: little blue on September 14, 2013, 09:00:25 am

 :bouquet:    :'(    :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Bionic on September 14, 2013, 09:03:21 am

Oh, how sad and on top of everything else but if it helps a bit I think you did the right thing too  :hug:

Title: Re: Sick to the stomach SURELY this has to be the last bad thing :'(
Post by: Blinkers on September 14, 2013, 11:37:26 am

So, so sorry.  I would have done the same thing - its a tough call though.  :bouquet: :hug: