I have an English Bulldog who is about to turn two and it looks like tail amputation is the best/only option for her. She was born with a very tight inverted cork screw tail, because of this our vet told us to be extra diligent in cleaning and care to hopefully prevent any issues in the future. Although as she grew it became impossible to clean and care for properly as it doesn’t move at all and is so tight and inverted you can’t get under or in it to clean it properly. We tried our best with doing flushes, and cleaning what we could with medicated wipes and using a steroid cream and powder to hopefully prevent any issues.
The last few months she has been very uncomfortable and increasingly agitated due to her tail issue. After seeing our vet and having her examined he said despite everything we have done and as much as he generally tried to avoid it that tail amputation is a necessity in her case. He said it was one of the worst cases of an inverted cork screw tail he had seen and we were lucky she hadn’t had any issues with it sooner.
My vet is great but said due to the circumstances he was not comfortable doing the surgery himself and has recommended a specialist out of Colorado (we live in Wyoming). Our vet consulted with the specialist this morning and sent him all the info on our sweet girl and they called to let us know the surgery would probably be about $2500-$3000. It was a bit higher than we had expected but we are planning to get the surgery scheduled for as soon as possible (we also have 4 kids and another EB so we need to schedule an overnight sitter since we have to go out of state).
Has anyone else done a tail amputation? What was your experience like? Did you use a specialist? How was the recovery? Was the cost in a similar range?
Thanks so much for any info you can give me!
The last few months she has been very uncomfortable and increasingly agitated due to her tail issue. After seeing our vet and having her examined he said despite everything we have done and as much as he generally tried to avoid it that tail amputation is a necessity in her case. He said it was one of the worst cases of an inverted cork screw tail he had seen and we were lucky she hadn’t had any issues with it sooner.
My vet is great but said due to the circumstances he was not comfortable doing the surgery himself and has recommended a specialist out of Colorado (we live in Wyoming). Our vet consulted with the specialist this morning and sent him all the info on our sweet girl and they called to let us know the surgery would probably be about $2500-$3000. It was a bit higher than we had expected but we are planning to get the surgery scheduled for as soon as possible (we also have 4 kids and another EB so we need to schedule an overnight sitter since we have to go out of state).
Has anyone else done a tail amputation? What was your experience like? Did you use a specialist? How was the recovery? Was the cost in a similar range?
Thanks so much for any info you can give me!