Friday 1 March 2019

Hopefully....

The final post about Ruby for now!

A laughable palava is how we describe her treatment first thing in the morning and last thing at night. She slings herself on her back against DB whilst we apply the cream and dress her up. She doesn't budge until we are finished.

The adapted shorts only really stay in play if she is also wearing her suit:
A side view of her where you can see how high her shave was:
We were with the head vet yesterday and I asked why such a drastic shave and he confirmed it was in case of an emergency during the laparoscopy. A normal spay doesn't require so much hair removal as you already have a decent cut. An emergency opening would require a bigger cut than that as they wouldn't have time to faff around if she was bleeding to death.


9 comments:

  1. Ah, I see, that makes sense. Amazing that Ruby stays still until you've finished creaming and dressing her - Betty wouldn't! She doesn't even like staying still when we're attempting to dry her after a wet walk, wriggles like mad and runs off at every opportunity.

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    1. For the most part, she is a placid calm little thing, despite her being a spaniel.

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  2. At least you will only have to go through this the once! Makes sense now with the drastic shave - better safe than sorry!

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    1. Indeed, couldn’t have done anything about it even if we had been forewarned.

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  3. So glad she is doing well. Rupert got over his laparoscopy really well. Lat year it was Tom who had this op for his gall stones, this year it was Rupert so thee had to be a third and that's you Ruby, lol
    Briony
    x

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  4. That makes a great deal of sense.

    God bless.

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  5. Better to be save than sorry, so makes sense now to be shaved. She is doing so well and is so placid, what a treasure you have.

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