Who To Trust?

[milly]

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Some people may know about jack, :wub:   our 6 month old pup, who broke his tibia in scotland. He is such a cheeky, gorgeous little chap and we were devastated when he did it. But  we took him to the vets up there, heard what they had to say, took their advice and came home with jack in an immobilising splint with the advice to see our own vet, after a week on our return. Jack was ok, nipping around and getting on with stuff.  Took him to our vets, they re-did the splint, said everything was ok, jack was very distressed after this, but as they said this was down to the sedation, we carried on trusting their judgement. After a night of Jack crying and eventually settling we decided to change vets and found a practice that served the greyhound stadiums around us. Jack saw the vet yesterday, underwent surgery today after she found that the fracture had displaced to a 40 degree angle. When I asked would things for jack be different had we had gone to her in the first place, she said "yes". He now has crossed pins internally to fixate the tibia.

I know that all you seasoned whippet racer's out there would have had a better idea than us about whether to trust the vets treating jack or not, so i suppose my post is to those who may be in our position of not being in racing long. I know that I trust the vet we have now, but only because they have been treating greyhounds and working dogs for a long time.

We are not sure as to what jack will be able to do, i just know that we'll do whatever possible to get him better. I guess I just wanted to help anyone else to avoid making the same mistake we did.

Chris

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I'm sure everyone would like a update of little Jacks progress :wub: and some pics would be nice too

 

[Fleesh]

Yes please for some Jack pictures, some with his buddy Matt too please :- "

 

[tony warren]

geoff ive got that book and its brill £35 pound well spent and yes your right im the same and i think anyone with running and working dogs would be advised to see a greyhound vet as they know the workings of our dogs a lot better then the normal ones

 

[rob67]

soz not done it yet, been working 12 hr shifts Will prob bring jack down to askern so you can see him in the flesh so to speak

 

[Fleesh]

I'm not going so I still want pictures :- "

Please

 

[milly]

soz not done it yet, been working 12 hr shifts   Will prob bring jack down to askern so you can see him in the flesh so to speak

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No probs :thumbsup: looking forward to seeing the big boy 2, thats Tye not Rob

Geoff

 

[tony warren]

george drake is your man for a good check over :cheers: