I've posted about my dog before, but I'll give a brief rundown. He's a Rottweiller and he'll be 2 next month.
He developed elbow dysplasia at 4 months old, had surgery at 6 months, he was a great candidate for it to be really successful, but it wasn't (it was improved but still had issues) and he was about 9 months old before I could walk him again, he was left with a bit of stiffness and was on permanent metacam.
After I could walk him again he was a bit OTT with other dogs, not that surprising as he'd missed a big chunk of socialization. He'd been to puppy classes and was attending obedience classes, but he wasn't really improving, so I signed him up for classes with a behaviourist just after he turned 1.
3 weeks in he suddenly and unexpectedly reacted aggressively to the behaviourist. After check ups and referrals it seemed to be spinal pain, nothing shows up on x-rays but various vets have narrowed it down to the same spot on his back. It took quite a long time to hit on the right combination of pain relief and in the meantime he got worse, reactive to dogs, strangers, cars and bikes.
He's muzzled and on lead always (outside) we've had to build him a kennel and run to have visitors in, but, he finally started making progress about 8 weeks ago as we got the painkillers right...he was still having seemingly random bad days which we were about to investigate food for as he also has some food intolerances, but, we had made tiny forward steps with training now that the pain was under control.
So this weekend...
He was admitted to the vet school with sickness and lethargy, they found a perforated ulcer from the Metacam and they had to remove a portion of his stomach and intestine, there's a fairly high risk of complications because of where the ulcer was, if it goes wrong any further surgeries would compromise his quality of life... they gave us odds slightly higher than 50/50 of him pulling through.
He's been stable for the last two days, but isn't eating yet, which is starting to be a bit concerning, though not too worrying yet and they're reducing his morphine today to try and see if he perks up enough to eat.
Just thought I'd post because I have posted about him before and it gives me something to do other than wait for tomorrow's update from the vet or worse an emergency call because something's gone wrong.
If you're worried about your pet's health, please speak to a vet or qualified professional.
The doghouse
Just for a change, bad news about my dog...
tabulahrasa · 10/06/2014 14:49
Oh no, I am so sorry to hear this tabulahrasa. You have worked so hard with him and he's so lucky to have such a dedicated family.
I'll be keeping everything crossed for him to make a good recovery from this and get back making progress with his behavioural stuff really soon.
Oh you poor thing and your poor doggie 
For you both!
Hope he gets better. Nothing worse than a poorly pooch
Hopefully he's on enough morphing that if he is feeling abandoned, he doesn't care about it 
I'm sure he's fine and will be really excited to see you. 
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a very nice woman who phoned me every day and I should know her name...but I've only spoken to her on the phone.
He was admitted at 11 o'clock at night, so the vet who admitted him isn't the one looking after him now.
My cat has been a patient there though, so I've seen how well they look after them, it is just that I'd rather sit with him, lol.
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