On Good Friday we noticed 9yr old Xander was not urinating, he kept cocking his leg but nothing was happening. We immediately contacted the emergency vet who examined him and said he had an enlarged prostate. As we had a bitch in season, kept separately from Xander we thought this could be the reason. Xander had a catheter inserted and his bladder drained and we were told to think about castration.
The next day he was still no better so we took him back, they catheterised him again and operated to castrate him.
He didn’t recover well and was on medication and was having his bladder drained twice a day at our own vets and every other day was having a chem10 blood test to show his kidney function, by the Wednesday this showed his kidneys were failing. He was admitted and put on a drip to flush his kidneys and a catheter put in situ so his bladder could be drained regularly, he wasn’t eating very well and kept regurgitating what food he did eat.
He had to go to the emergency vets that evening as our vets don’t have overnight facilities, he got worse during the night and we were phoned at 5.45am to be told he was in heart failure and they were having to drain his urine through his side as a catheter couldn’t be inserted! We were advised euthanasia would be best for him.
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Shauna Twigg · 24 March 2024 at 9:27 am
Oopsmight have spoken too soon. Young teams dont know how to play late in games, especially playoff games. Total self-destruction. Can they now learn to win? Go Cs.
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Magda Yzaguirre · 27 April 2024 at 9:10 am
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