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.