Tuesday 17 January 2017

Bennie's Summer Horribilis

Not good.  Last night we took a very sick little dog into the after hours Pet Surgery in North Hobart.  Clearly in pain, unable to eat or drink we knew Number One Son was in trouble.  Kept in overnight for tests and fluids, he still managed to howl the place down even under medication.  As we left him in capable hands, we stood at the surgery counter waiting while they tallied up our bill (the equivalent of a night in a Crown Towers Suite with a bottle of Grange thrown in for good measure) we read the brochure about Pancreatitis.  Vomiting, depression, abdominal pain, all caused from eating fatty foods.  Oops.  We had given Bennie some lamb straps that were off cuts of our recent lamb delivery.  Whilst only on the smallish side, they were high in fat and too much for a highly susceptible breed as we read, like Cocker Spaniels.  So we picked him up this morning and he was transferred to our local vet who will keep him in, and on pain killers and intravenous fluids for tonight.  We're hopeful he'll be discharged tomorrow (expect to pay another equivalent night in Crown Towers, with French Champagne and use of private jet).  We're to have him on a special diet of plain chicken and rice for a few days.  The Paleo diet is off the menu for this little guy.  We highly rate our local vet surgery and we've had a few visits now.  At one point the nurse looked up from her computer and said,  'Oh, you're fish hook Bennie...'.  Yes, that's him.  He'll be glad when this summer is over.

No comments:

Post a Comment