BuzzyBea
Well-Known Member
For all those that kindly offered advice on my recent thread about our boy's recurrent colic I thought I should give you an update.
As a last 'at home' measure we stopped all hard feed last Monday (6.1.15.) He had mild colic the following day but this didn't surprise me as he would have still had food in his system. He was then colic free which gave us great hope...until yesterday.
My daughter called me at work saying he was really bad so I left work - again - to be there. He was at his worst
Tried walking him but his back legs kept buckling and he went down and kept trying to roll - we can usually stop him but no chance yesterday. When he wasn't thrashing he was lying prostrate and grunting.
While we were waiting for the vet to come my daughter and I prepared ourselves for the worst.
He brightened a little when the vet came and once he had buscopan in him he settled for a short while but then began scraping again and eventually went down although was still and not thrashing. Vet gave him a sedative so we put him back in his stable.
Talked eveything through with the vet and agreed that there was nothing non-invasive left to try. He left at that point for us to talk eveything through. We had a couple of hours of heartbreaking crying and after a huge amount of soul searching we agreed to go for a scope as a final treatment (although there is nothing at all to suggest that he has ulcers) and if that failed then to put him to sleep. He has suffered long enough.
Our vet doesn't have a scope so the earliest we could get him seen locally was Thursday. After more discussion we decided we needed him to be in the best place possible so took him back up to Rossdales last night where he was quickly made comfortable. The surgeon came and spoke to us at length and we have agreed to have him scoped this morning and if nothing comes up we will most likely go for surgery.
He is the most amazing, kind and gentle soul and he deserves this last shot. Once in surgery we have agreed that they should let him go if there is nothing positive that can be done for him.
As a last 'at home' measure we stopped all hard feed last Monday (6.1.15.) He had mild colic the following day but this didn't surprise me as he would have still had food in his system. He was then colic free which gave us great hope...until yesterday.
My daughter called me at work saying he was really bad so I left work - again - to be there. He was at his worst
Tried walking him but his back legs kept buckling and he went down and kept trying to roll - we can usually stop him but no chance yesterday. When he wasn't thrashing he was lying prostrate and grunting. While we were waiting for the vet to come my daughter and I prepared ourselves for the worst.
He brightened a little when the vet came and once he had buscopan in him he settled for a short while but then began scraping again and eventually went down although was still and not thrashing. Vet gave him a sedative so we put him back in his stable.
Talked eveything through with the vet and agreed that there was nothing non-invasive left to try. He left at that point for us to talk eveything through. We had a couple of hours of heartbreaking crying and after a huge amount of soul searching we agreed to go for a scope as a final treatment (although there is nothing at all to suggest that he has ulcers) and if that failed then to put him to sleep. He has suffered long enough.
Our vet doesn't have a scope so the earliest we could get him seen locally was Thursday. After more discussion we decided we needed him to be in the best place possible so took him back up to Rossdales last night where he was quickly made comfortable. The surgeon came and spoke to us at length and we have agreed to have him scoped this morning and if nothing comes up we will most likely go for surgery.
He is the most amazing, kind and gentle soul and he deserves this last shot. Once in surgery we have agreed that they should let him go if there is nothing positive that can be done for him.
