Auggie's Mum
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Hello,
I'm new to the forum. I've got a lovely little 8 year old lop named Auggie.
He's been my companion through thick and thin for a long time and I'm having a hard time deciding what is best decision to make for him right now.
He was fit as a fiddle for years, never had a single complaint--up until I had a baby last year. I think no longer being center of attention hit him hard, and a few months ago he started to have weepy eyes. The vet thought it was his teeth, but he had a rattling cough as well which I'd never heard before. After x-Rays the vet concluded that his left lung has lesions and is limiting his ability to breathe.
In this time he's not been his old self, even though I'm now able to spend loads more time with him I fear it's too late.
I've taken him to two specialists who advise he has a 50% chance of surviving the surgery. But if I don't choose the surgical route, he will surely die in the next few months.
I love him so much, he's like my first baby. I go back and forth about which option to take. My dad and sister both passed away from metasticised cancer, so I'm all too familiar with the toll radical surgery can take.
And though he's not young, he's such a strong little guy. Part of me feels he'd pull through.
But part of me thinks he should go gently. I do not want him to die in pain.
Has anyone else had experience with his type of surgery in a not-so-Young rabbit?
Thank you.
I'm new to the forum. I've got a lovely little 8 year old lop named Auggie.
He's been my companion through thick and thin for a long time and I'm having a hard time deciding what is best decision to make for him right now.
He was fit as a fiddle for years, never had a single complaint--up until I had a baby last year. I think no longer being center of attention hit him hard, and a few months ago he started to have weepy eyes. The vet thought it was his teeth, but he had a rattling cough as well which I'd never heard before. After x-Rays the vet concluded that his left lung has lesions and is limiting his ability to breathe.
In this time he's not been his old self, even though I'm now able to spend loads more time with him I fear it's too late.
I've taken him to two specialists who advise he has a 50% chance of surviving the surgery. But if I don't choose the surgical route, he will surely die in the next few months.
I love him so much, he's like my first baby. I go back and forth about which option to take. My dad and sister both passed away from metasticised cancer, so I'm all too familiar with the toll radical surgery can take.
And though he's not young, he's such a strong little guy. Part of me feels he'd pull through.
But part of me thinks he should go gently. I do not want him to die in pain.
Has anyone else had experience with his type of surgery in a not-so-Young rabbit?
Thank you.