Meet Cooper, who joined the BRNGB family in October 2022 at around 12 months old. In his short life he’s undergone massive surgery due to his liking of eating stones and gravel!
He’s still very much a puppy and has puppy ways, excitable, mouthing, larger than life and full of himself. He loves all people and dogs and is having a blast with his foster siblings, as well as learning some manners. He needs a lot of brain games to keep him out of trouble.
He had only been with his surrendering family for around 4 months when he came to join our family so his history is unknown, but he’s showing himself to be a lovely lad who needs boundaries.
He’s going to be a big lad when he finally stops growing.
He does suffer with separation anxiety when left home alone, although is fine when people are in the house but in different rooms, which his foster family are working on. He does love his people and likes to be as close as possible when he’s not running riot with the resident hounds!
Within 14 days of Cooper being with his foster family he took poorly, not eating, not playing, being poorly from both ends. We and his foster family of course arranged a vet check immediately as this was not the boy they got to know over the short time he had been with them.
After X-Rays under general anaesthetic it was found that his colon was dilated. He was kept in for a while and re x-rayed because they wanted to make sure there was no twist/adhesions to his colon. These repeat x-rays showed a dilated colon but thankfully no twisted loops . He was tested for parvo which thankfully was negative and a swab was sent off for checking. He had IV antibiotics and fluids with the assumption he had haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and dilated loops of bowel because of the colitis. He was discharged with antibiotics and some pro kolin and we are pleased to say he made a full recovery………
However! An accidental finding with the X-Rays showed that Cooper was suffering with the acetavulum being too shallow so the ball of his femur isn’t covered as well as it should be, basically potential hip dysplasia.
Around 3 weeks after this discovery, and after making a full recovery from his poorly tummy Cooper stopped weight bearing on his leg, the vets prescribed pain killer and hydrotherapy sessions in the hope that with managed exercise and pain relief. If the muscle builds up with the controlled exercise this will hopefully mean that surgery isn’t required. Of course surgery is still on the cards if the hydrotherapy doesn’t ease the issue.
Cooper started his intense Hydro sessions with physiotherapy sessions early December, a course of 6 weeks of 2 sessions a week at a reasonable cost of £360 for the course.
We have everything crossed for Cooper and that the hydrotherapy and physio results in a positive, surgery free outcome. We will keep you updated on his progress.
If you would like to donate towards Cooper’s vet bill and treatment you can do either via Paypal – [email protected] or here.
Please do not make enquiries to adopt Cooper, he is not ready for his forever home until we have the results of his treatment and his assessment is complete. Any adoption enquiries will not be responded to.
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