Sally's Daily HKDR Life: Tues 18th April: Full day of dramas

Tuesday, 18 April 2017

Tues 18th April: Full day of dramas

Poor little Baggy had to have both eyes removed

It was a very sad day today when new sharpei puppy Baggy went to Acorn to be seen by Dr Tony and I was warned that the eyes were so buried under the folds of skin that they may already be beyond repair. All I could do was hope that once sedated and no longer in pain his sight could be salvaged, but it turned out that both eyes were tiny and useless so had to be removed. The best I can say is that Baggy isn't suffering now, and that having presumably been blind all his life he will cope very well. As I've written before, if you could see my born-blind dog Roley racing around, dodging in and out of trees and happily running along the narrow pier, you would absolutely refuse to believe he has never had any sight at all.

Nutmeg will be fine after coin removal surgery

I'm immensely grateful to have a surgeon like Dr Tony as our vet, knowing that whatever needs to be done will be done quickly and skillfully. I wasn't even expecting that there would be time to fit Baggy in today as I'd been told there was a queue for surgery, including our new ex-breeder pom with the coin in her stomach. That's now been removed and hopefully without any ill effects, and Nutmeg was also desexed at the same time.

As if that wasn't enough drama for the day, while I was in Central for a late afternoon meeting Iris was frantically sending me Whatsapp messages about another pom, Minnie, sidekick of the slightly larger Middie, who was coughing so badly that she was in a state of collapse. It was already evening and after closing time at Acorn, but as Dr Tony was working late trying to catch up with everything that needed to be done he agreed to see Minnie as an emergency. Thankfully her condition was stablised and a message received later that night reassuringly said that Minnie was now sleeping.