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Mama Doe
My darling snuffle bunny Merlin has gone to the bridge. I miss him so much.
He has been getting steadily worse despite all the antibiotics he has been having - penicillin injections every three days, and 9ml baytril twice a day. His nose was getting snottier and snottier and the eye that had never been infected before had started to get pussy. Then on Friday night I found him staggering about with a full blown case of head tilt. I had heard him thundering about upstairs and thought he was doing his usual mad binky dashes along the hall. He wouldn't touch his food and kept bumping into the wall. He often needed to hold his head up in order to breath easily and he couldn't do that. Hyzenthlay was clearly agitated and watching him strangely. She would give him a couple of licks and then hop away.
I took him to the vet in the morning and as I had suspected there was nothing more to be done for him. I didn't feel it was fair to keep him hanging on longer when he so clearly felt so ill and so uncomfortable, so he was PTS with me dripping all over him. I haven't had to make that decision before and it was so hard. It was so fast that it still keeps hitting me. He was such a darling boy, and not to see him in the bathroom and on my bedroom floor is so hard. My ys is also very very upset. Hyzenthlay is very very quiet. I am going to rebond her to Hazel today, so hopefully she will be alright.
Merlin and Shadow, who went to the bridge last year. Run free my lovlies.
He has been getting steadily worse despite all the antibiotics he has been having - penicillin injections every three days, and 9ml baytril twice a day. His nose was getting snottier and snottier and the eye that had never been infected before had started to get pussy. Then on Friday night I found him staggering about with a full blown case of head tilt. I had heard him thundering about upstairs and thought he was doing his usual mad binky dashes along the hall. He wouldn't touch his food and kept bumping into the wall. He often needed to hold his head up in order to breath easily and he couldn't do that. Hyzenthlay was clearly agitated and watching him strangely. She would give him a couple of licks and then hop away.
I took him to the vet in the morning and as I had suspected there was nothing more to be done for him. I didn't feel it was fair to keep him hanging on longer when he so clearly felt so ill and so uncomfortable, so he was PTS with me dripping all over him. I haven't had to make that decision before and it was so hard. It was so fast that it still keeps hitting me. He was such a darling boy, and not to see him in the bathroom and on my bedroom floor is so hard. My ys is also very very upset. Hyzenthlay is very very quiet. I am going to rebond her to Hazel today, so hopefully she will be alright.