We lost our Bertha today, when I went to check on them this morning I knew she wasn't right, not eating her carrot and looking very tucked up. I rushed her into the vet who could feel a lump in her abdomen. She was scanned and x-rayed and it was uterine cancer, worse it had spread into her lungs and there were at least half a dozen tumours there, saw the x-rays myself. So we had to let her go, I was with her while she was injected and sat with her until she was gone.
Since joining this forum I've been trying to decide whether to get my girls spayed, I hadn't realised cancer was so common, and I didn't realise it was so aggressive, also I was scared to put my girls through it, as most of them are rescues and are some are getting on in age. Anyway, I will start next week to get them done one at a time.
At the moment my biggest concern is Snowy, he was Bertha's buddy and is looking very lost tonight, I will try and bond him with one of the other girls, but after they are spayed. I put him in a run next to Jessica tomorrow, hopefully another girl next to him will take his mind off Bertha a bit.
Since joining this forum I've been trying to decide whether to get my girls spayed, I hadn't realised cancer was so common, and I didn't realise it was so aggressive, also I was scared to put my girls through it, as most of them are rescues and are some are getting on in age. Anyway, I will start next week to get them done one at a time.
At the moment my biggest concern is Snowy, he was Bertha's buddy and is looking very lost tonight, I will try and bond him with one of the other girls, but after they are spayed. I put him in a run next to Jessica tomorrow, hopefully another girl next to him will take his mind off Bertha a bit.