My poor boy had a bad time last night, in the space of a few hours he went from being fine to being... well, not fine at all. He was licking himself as he has been doing but started to do it more and more and when I had a look I noticed blood and he was obviously in pain
I took him up to bed with me and neither of us slept much. He would sit with his head hanging looking miserable and then leap around and start licking and biting at himself frantically until he made it bleed again and again. I rang the emergency vet but as we know what it is they said to just bring him in first thing so I was sitting in front of the vets when they opened. The antibiotics haven't worked and neither have the homeopathic remedies and it's also not helping that it's absoutely impossible to keep his underside clean at this time of year. He's been given painkillers and an antibiotic injection so he's back to his usual (if overly licky) self tonight but they're just masking the symptoms and I can't keep doping him up and stuffing him full of antibiotics forever or take the risk of him going through this over and over again. So the upshot is that I had to make a decision and I have to do what's best for the boy long term so after a very in depth talk with two of the vets there he's booked in to be castrated on Friday. They're pretty adamant that this will fix it once and for all and I hope they're right because if it doesn't then short of cutting off his bits as well as his bobs I don't know what else can be done. Tardak isn't a long term option and this is a long term problem, he's had it recurring for a year now as it is and they don't think it'll go away permanently. So there you go, I'm pretty gutted but I hope I've made the best decision for him, I think I have.
