He had a funny tummy right from the time we had him.
When he was 2 it got really bad, it was like explosive diarrhoea, it poured out of him, the vet thought it was IBD the only way to tell was to do a biopsy on his gut, this proved positive.
They needed to start him on steroids but had to wait for his gut to repair after the operation, in that time he dropped from 16 pounds to only 8 he looked like a bag of bones.
We started on steroid tablets every day, plus chemotherapy tablets every day and B12 injection every month.
Slowly he put back on all the weight and the diarrhoea cleared up.
The vet warned me there was a small chance it could turn to cancer.
We had 3 more good years with no problems, then on day he was in pain, I rushed him to the vets and they scanned him to find he had cancer and his intestine had ruptured, we decided to operate and they took out the piece of gut, but sadly he only made it another 3 weeks, I brought him home but the next day the vet had to come and help him on his way.
But apparently his was a very bad case and most can be managed with medication successfully, I was just unlucky.
We managed OK for his 5 years we had him, we got into a routine of medicine and vet visits, which there were a lot of them.
But hopefully Hendrix wont have it or if he does it won't be so severe.
_________________ Clare Magic (brown spotted boy born 31 March 2012) Pearl (seal Lynx Point girl born 1 October 2015) Bristol, UK
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