... continued from yesterday's post.
On a far more serious note, the dog is okay too. Angel (you'll find a picture of him looking sheepish in my pics) was discovered to have a Torsion on Saturday.
For those un-initiated it the disgusting realm of the canine, a torsion is an apparently quite common complaint among large-ish dogs* where their stomach literally turns. Yup, it physically twists along the axis of the bowels, meaning that the entrance and exit to the stomach are effectively (very effectively as it happens) tied shut. If this isn't caught within a matter of hours, the dog dies. There are no 2 ways about that, he would have died if we hadn't noticed something was wrong and got him straight to the vets, and it would all have happened within the space of about 3 hours as his own internal juices or whatever ripped him apart from the inside.
I always knew he had killer farts, but I didn't know how literal the term was.
Fortunately, the vet was able to put his stomach right, and has actually sewn it to the inside of his abdomen so that it can't happen again
He's looking even more sheepish, and he has a big pink bald patch that makes him look ridiculous, but the vet is 99% confident of a full recovery. So yay for him!
*and boy is Angel a large-ish dog. His head is completely empty, poor idiot, but it alone must way about 90 pounds.
On a far more serious note, the dog is okay too. Angel (you'll find a picture of him looking sheepish in my pics) was discovered to have a Torsion on Saturday.
For those un-initiated it the disgusting realm of the canine, a torsion is an apparently quite common complaint among large-ish dogs* where their stomach literally turns. Yup, it physically twists along the axis of the bowels, meaning that the entrance and exit to the stomach are effectively (very effectively as it happens) tied shut. If this isn't caught within a matter of hours, the dog dies. There are no 2 ways about that, he would have died if we hadn't noticed something was wrong and got him straight to the vets, and it would all have happened within the space of about 3 hours as his own internal juices or whatever ripped him apart from the inside.
I always knew he had killer farts, but I didn't know how literal the term was.
Fortunately, the vet was able to put his stomach right, and has actually sewn it to the inside of his abdomen so that it can't happen again
He's looking even more sheepish, and he has a big pink bald patch that makes him look ridiculous, but the vet is 99% confident of a full recovery. So yay for him!
*and boy is Angel a large-ish dog. His head is completely empty, poor idiot, but it alone must way about 90 pounds.
aesirr:
Aww poor Angel, he's a little bugger but a cute little bugger at that.
spud_bliss:
glad your dog is ok