Rebecca Giardina
New member
Hello, Everyone!
I never really thought to join a bulldog forum. I have owned my little (Eh who am I kidding?) Bulldog for almost 4 years.
Currently we live in Japan as my husband is Military, but we actually fly to America THIS MONTH to start our lives. So a little history - GusGus is a 4 year old English Bulldog who we got when he was 11 months old. His breathing has always been SOOO loud and we assumed this was typical Bulldog traits. We use a Japanese Vet so the language barrier has always made most things hard.
We recently raised enough money to get a special flight home to us in October (So he isn't flying in this horrid heat!) and I started finding information about Elongated soft palates. Gus has ALWAYS thrown up his food and water, we bought raised bowls thinking that was the issue and again, put it down to normal traits.
Last night, I showed my Vet pictures from online about this, and she did xrays immediately, checked his blood and realized Gus does indeed need this surgery.
He went from 55lb to 66lb over the last few years due to not even being able to go on walks!! His panting would scare us and we feared the walks would be the death of him!
SO back to topic, HE IS AT THE VET RIGHT NOW! Surgery starts in 2 hours, and they are going to phone us afterwards to tell us how it went.
What should I expect? Is there a typical timeline for how long it takes? He is also having his nostrils widened?
I also had to sign some paperwork saying we accept it isn't their fault if he dies... Is this normal!? My husband and I are on edge at the thought it could go wrong and his throat swells too bad.
Should I go out and buy wet dog food? He has dry food right now and for evenings, we mix it with salt free green beans. This all happened so fast and I am so unprepared!
Have any of you had this surgery on your dog?
Sorry this is so long, I got carried away and rambled.
I never really thought to join a bulldog forum. I have owned my little (Eh who am I kidding?) Bulldog for almost 4 years.
Currently we live in Japan as my husband is Military, but we actually fly to America THIS MONTH to start our lives. So a little history - GusGus is a 4 year old English Bulldog who we got when he was 11 months old. His breathing has always been SOOO loud and we assumed this was typical Bulldog traits. We use a Japanese Vet so the language barrier has always made most things hard.
We recently raised enough money to get a special flight home to us in October (So he isn't flying in this horrid heat!) and I started finding information about Elongated soft palates. Gus has ALWAYS thrown up his food and water, we bought raised bowls thinking that was the issue and again, put it down to normal traits.
Last night, I showed my Vet pictures from online about this, and she did xrays immediately, checked his blood and realized Gus does indeed need this surgery.
He went from 55lb to 66lb over the last few years due to not even being able to go on walks!! His panting would scare us and we feared the walks would be the death of him!
SO back to topic, HE IS AT THE VET RIGHT NOW! Surgery starts in 2 hours, and they are going to phone us afterwards to tell us how it went.
What should I expect? Is there a typical timeline for how long it takes? He is also having his nostrils widened?
I also had to sign some paperwork saying we accept it isn't their fault if he dies... Is this normal!? My husband and I are on edge at the thought it could go wrong and his throat swells too bad.
Should I go out and buy wet dog food? He has dry food right now and for evenings, we mix it with salt free green beans. This all happened so fast and I am so unprepared!
Have any of you had this surgery on your dog?
Sorry this is so long, I got carried away and rambled.