Beaumont_Boston

Just to follow up on my post in case it will help someone in the future. I ended up taking my Boston Terrier to Karen Hedberg who has a surgery in North Richmond based on the recommendation of a very helpful forum member. His surgery was a week ago, so he is still healing, but already his breathing is much better. He was desexed at the same time and the cost was more than reasonable compared to other prices I have seen quoted on here. It was a bit of an effort to get all the way out to the mountains, but Karen comes with my highest recommendation, she breeds French Bulldogs herself, so has a lot of 'specialist' experience with brachycephalic breeds.

Thanks all for the helpful feedback.

Yes I have as I was originally going to return him to her for this reason and so I explained at length the problems I have noticed with his breathing. She just said I was welcome to return him if I wanted to.

Hi All, I recently adopted an 11 month old male Boston Terrier. Before purchasing him, the breeder informed me that she had identified him as having Brachycephalic Syndrome and had already had surgery done on his soft palate. So, I took him on a trial as she assured me that this had rectified the problem. Now having had him for 3 weeks and seeing how much it affects his sleeping in particular (Very loud whistling sound which results in sleep apnoea as he has to periodically wake up slightly to gasp for air), I can see that there are still problems. He does not appear to have Stenotic Nares, and the breeder informed me that the vet who performed the soft palate surgery informed her that he was able to get quite a large tube down his trachea, so hopefully that rules out hypolastic trachea. So, I am thinking that either not enough of the soft palate was removed, or he has everted laryngeal saccules, or both. He does make a gurgling/coughing sound quite often which sounds like he has too much mucous stuck in his throat. I have decided not to return him to the breeder as he is a very sweet boy and I want to give him the best opportunity at a high quality of life. I am looking to get him desexed ASAP and so I thought that I would get the vet to take a look/repair his throat at the same time, particularly as it can be risky to put these dogs under general anaesthetic. So, I am wondering if anyone can recommend a very experienced, but economical, vet to see about this issue in the Sydney area? Your help is greatly appreciated.