Sad news of losing our girl Gucci
4 December 2023It breaks my heart to share the devastating news of Gucci sadly being put to sleep on the 29th of November 2023.
Our little darling Gucci was doing fantastic, her surgery all went amazing, she was home happy & resting, able to go to the toilet, learning to walk and weight bare weight very lightly etc! She had her weekly vet check just days before passing with flying colours. Great movement and progress. She was over all so happy to be home with us! When on the 28th late evening she was sleeping and went into major pain yelping out of nowhere, we managed to get her through the night and took her into the vets the following morning for X-rays and sedation as I knew something wasn’t quite right with her. We received some horrible and devastating news. 2 of the screws in the plate putting her pelvis back together had snapped. Yes two solid screws inside of her had snapped! She was in such restricted crate rest, pelvis support going toilet and doing amazing at home. There was no explanation as to why two of the longest screws had snapped in two totally different places. There was no way two screws inside of her should just give way and snap when she was fast asleep! She was in so much pain, so much worse than the injury when it first happened with the horse squashing her. There wasn’t much of an option to do surgery again with very little bone left to put screws into. Having these screws fail costed our special dogs life. She fought so hard and we wish we had a better outcome.
