Neil-and-Maria
Warren Veteran
I am looking back over the events of the last couple of weeks with the Blackpool 50 and feeling like I could have handled the whole situation very differently, better and maybe everybun would have survived.
I'm not after pity or reassurance or anything like that - Im a very straight forward person with a practical nature and a good dollop of common sense thrown in. :roll::lol::lol:
It was my first involvement with any rehoming/rescue and to have 50+ with no warning I think it's fair to say 'deep end'! However, many of you have dealt with these situations and do so again and again so Im after good common sense advice and steps to take should this ever happen again.
As I see it these are the things I did wrong.
Asked for help from everyone straight away when I should have been thinking of the buns health rather than their accommodation.
We myxo'd all the buns on arrival and booked them in for neutering either here or in Cheshire, all within a week.
After neutering the buns travelled for 5+ hours some of them within a couple of days of being neteured to get to their rescue places so as not to lose them.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I think maybe this is what should have happened, but I'm open to suggestions and hope this thread will help more buns in the future.
Once the buns were removed we should have given them all a vet health check within 2 days and booked them in for neutering starting in a weeks time to monitor them beforehand and get dental buns in first etc.
Myxo vac's should only have been given to those who were well 2 weeks after the neuter. Microchip at this time as well.
Travel to rescues no sooner than 1 week from myxo vac date.
What does everyone elso do?
Thanks for reading,
Maria x
I'm not after pity or reassurance or anything like that - Im a very straight forward person with a practical nature and a good dollop of common sense thrown in. :roll::lol::lol:
It was my first involvement with any rehoming/rescue and to have 50+ with no warning I think it's fair to say 'deep end'! However, many of you have dealt with these situations and do so again and again so Im after good common sense advice and steps to take should this ever happen again.
As I see it these are the things I did wrong.
Asked for help from everyone straight away when I should have been thinking of the buns health rather than their accommodation.
We myxo'd all the buns on arrival and booked them in for neutering either here or in Cheshire, all within a week.
After neutering the buns travelled for 5+ hours some of them within a couple of days of being neteured to get to their rescue places so as not to lose them.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I think maybe this is what should have happened, but I'm open to suggestions and hope this thread will help more buns in the future.
Once the buns were removed we should have given them all a vet health check within 2 days and booked them in for neutering starting in a weeks time to monitor them beforehand and get dental buns in first etc.
Myxo vac's should only have been given to those who were well 2 weeks after the neuter. Microchip at this time as well.
Travel to rescues no sooner than 1 week from myxo vac date.
What does everyone elso do?
Thanks for reading,
Maria x