My wife called me yesterday & said that Chunk our pet chocolate lab had all the symptoms of canine bloat she'd got him to the vets but it wasn't looking good she was sitting outside the surgery in tears
waiting for the results of the xray bye the time i got there the Vet was coming out to speak to her, turned out it wasn't what she feared but wasn't much better, when they showed us the xray and pointed out what I assumed was his stomach was in fact a tumor about the size of a rugby ball they couldn't tell what organ it was until they operated best case scenario would be it was his spleen anything else they said it would be kinder not to wake him from the opp. We went in and spent about 20 mins with him waiting for him to go into the opp all the time thinking we might never see him again. We were told to go home wait for the call about an hour and a half they said, nearly 4 hours later phone rang, good new hes come through, it was his spleen the tumor weighed nearly 7 lb they said it all went well, still got to wait for test on tumor sample just hoping its Benign anyway we got to bring him home tonight amazing how resilient dogs can be, he was looking for food as soon as he got home hes settled down now, just sat here all night watching him
sorry to bore you all with this but hes like one my kids, he means the world to me,sitting looking his empty bed last night was made worse as it was his 8th birthday yesterday.
just hope the pet insurance pays out or I'll have to find £900