Zedsded
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- Mar 30, 2015
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- Dudley (2015-2020) Wesley 2021
Hi everyone havenāt been on for a while due to family stuff and this really isnāt the post i wanted to return with.
Some members will remember we lost our first boy Dudley suddenly at the vets during Covid a week before his 5th birthday.
We weāre devastated and couldnāt survive without a bully in our lives and so 3 months after losing Dudley we welcomed Wesley into our hearts and he was another very special little boy. He loved everything and everyone and loved his ball the beach and very long walks.
3 weeks ago he was taken ill on Sunday morning, vomiting and lethargic so we rushed him to the emergency vets where they said he was dehydrated and put him on meds and a drip and proceeded with x-rays.
we left him there and came home, an hour later we received a call saying he had picked up a bit and was more hydrated but they thought it better to keep him in overnight.
20 mins later we get the call to say he had crashed and they weāre trying to revive him and we should get to the vets but he was gone before we got there.
This was almost exactly what we had been through with Dudley less than two years earlier, we are both still in shock and canāt believe this has happened to us again. We are not over losing Dudley and Wesley was the one thing making it easier but now we are grieving both of them and itās unbearable.
we had a post-mortem done for our own piece of mind and he had died from a congenital internal hernia which was a small hole in the sack around the heart, stuff had got through and pressed on his heart.
Wesley had a small external hernia which was regularly checked with no problems and we have already confirmed with two vets that if we had gone ahead and fixed his external hernia it would not of helped in any way, and the internal hernia would not of been seen.
So one of the reasons for posting this is that one in a million chance your bully has a hernia and you should possibly see any of the symptoms i listed please make sure you get them checked out.
Wesley was only 22 months old.
Please give all your squishy faced babies big hugs and kisses from me and my wife.
Some members will remember we lost our first boy Dudley suddenly at the vets during Covid a week before his 5th birthday.
We weāre devastated and couldnāt survive without a bully in our lives and so 3 months after losing Dudley we welcomed Wesley into our hearts and he was another very special little boy. He loved everything and everyone and loved his ball the beach and very long walks.
3 weeks ago he was taken ill on Sunday morning, vomiting and lethargic so we rushed him to the emergency vets where they said he was dehydrated and put him on meds and a drip and proceeded with x-rays.
we left him there and came home, an hour later we received a call saying he had picked up a bit and was more hydrated but they thought it better to keep him in overnight.
20 mins later we get the call to say he had crashed and they weāre trying to revive him and we should get to the vets but he was gone before we got there.
This was almost exactly what we had been through with Dudley less than two years earlier, we are both still in shock and canāt believe this has happened to us again. We are not over losing Dudley and Wesley was the one thing making it easier but now we are grieving both of them and itās unbearable.
we had a post-mortem done for our own piece of mind and he had died from a congenital internal hernia which was a small hole in the sack around the heart, stuff had got through and pressed on his heart.
Wesley had a small external hernia which was regularly checked with no problems and we have already confirmed with two vets that if we had gone ahead and fixed his external hernia it would not of helped in any way, and the internal hernia would not of been seen.
So one of the reasons for posting this is that one in a million chance your bully has a hernia and you should possibly see any of the symptoms i listed please make sure you get them checked out.
Wesley was only 22 months old.
Please give all your squishy faced babies big hugs and kisses from me and my wife.
