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To put into perspective.... All is now well, our girl is eating well, back to her normal self, getting back to her normal weight.

BUT we don't know what caused it all....

OK the saga goes.... Brae is fairly slight for a Deerhound, normal weight is 36 Kg.

But she runs, plays, enjoys life....

Like most Sighthounds she can be finicky/sulky with food and will not eat for a day or so.......

But a while ago she stopped eating altogether...... nothing for a week.....

Off to the vet.... Ultra-scan.... all looks ok.... blood tests look OK....

They " give" .... actually sell.... some High-protein food which we can make into a liquid and squirt down her throat with a Syringe

In retrospect this is the only thing that kept her alive

This goes on for 4 weeks..... with tests....

Eventually go to specialist.... stopped counting cost.....by then we truly did not know how much it had cost us...

Specialist also does ultrascan....... there is a HUGE thing in her stomach.

Operation... take it out.....

Now all is well she starts eating normally..... we have WORM back..... we call her that for various reasons.....

BTW she went down to 29 Kg.... looked like a skeleton.

This is what got taken out of her stomach...

Any ideas..... not biological.... so not a growth or tumour... did not even smell bad.. so not decomposed meat or veg....

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actually if you have a good look it seems to be hard undigested matter that has balled

what is her current diet? looks like she cannot digest properly or if her diet is high in bones it may be forming a bolus stuck in the gut

try providing smaller, highly digestable meals a few times per day and add some fiber. Did the vet cut the ball apart?

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actually if you have a good look it seems to be hard undigested matter that has balled
It did look like that...but the OP said
Any ideas..... not biological....

which I took to mean (prob. mistakenly) not organic matter.... :hug: so went with gastrolith

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Hi folks,

thanks for your replies..... Except for who-ever said Haggis.... :thumbsup: Only joking, actually it did look like that, or meat-loaf.

I cut into it, was quite hard, sort of half-way between cork and meat-loaf.

Definitely not stone, did not smell at all offensive, weighed about 1 or 2 Kg.

Brae is now fully back to normal, almost back up to normal weight.

She was shaved on both sides for the scans, so no showing for a while, that won't upset her AT ALL.......

Dave

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What a mystery. Glad she is back to normal ( except for showing :cry:) but it would be interesting to know how it happened.

Not nice carrying 1 or 2 kg of that around in your stomach.

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Hi folks,

thanks for your replies..... Except for who-ever said Haggis.... :( Only joking, actually it did look like that, or meat-loaf.

I cut into it, was quite hard, sort of half-way between cork and meat-loaf.

Definitely not stone, did not smell at all offensive, weighed about 1 or 2 Kg.

Brae is now fully back to normal, almost back up to normal weight.

She was shaved on both sides for the scans, so no showing for a while, that won't upset her AT ALL.......

Dave

Are you going to have it analysed? I dont' see how it could be a gastrolith.. she couldn't have ingested it.

Ah, maybe it's teratoma? But definitely not biological in origin they say?? :cry:

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Hi folks,

thanks for your replies..... Except for who-ever said Haggis.... :thumbsup: Only joking, actually it did look like that, or meat-loaf.

I cut into it, was quite hard, sort of half-way between cork and meat-loaf.

Definitely not stone, did not smell at all offensive, weighed about 1 or 2 Kg.

Brae is now fully back to normal, almost back up to normal weight.

She was shaved on both sides for the scans, so no showing for a while, that won't upset her AT ALL.......

Dave

Are you going to have it analysed? I dont' see how it could be a gastrolith.. she couldn't have ingested it.

Ah, maybe it's teratoma? But definitely not biological in origin they say?? :laugh:

Not going to get it analysed as such, because.....

Elfin, who posts on here is a good friend of ours and works at a Vet's practice took a piece of it for the Vets to look at it.

They ( all 3 of them ) said not biological, or grass, or...etc.

They told Elfin that it could be sent for analaysis for $150 but we would not learn any more.

Dave

In the Dandenongs where it has FINALLY cooled down.......

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