Ok we are back home again now with Walnut
She has Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is basically a disease of the heart muscle that causes excessive thickness of the heart muscle and a reduced heart chamber size
She has been heavily sedated this afternoon for all the test so can't stand or walk at the moment and keeps falling over so is not a very happy puss.
She will basically have to be on heart tablets (beta-blockers would you believe) for the rest of her life. This will be fun trying to give her those 3 times a day every day
She has to go back Friday for a check-up but for now is back home safe with us.
Fortunately we have pet insurance as the cost for last night was £160 and we just paid another £600 for the tests today.
The drugs are approximately £320 a year !!
I need to work out how much we can claim from the pet insurance but thank goodness we had it.
My advice to anyone with a pet is get insurance !! Walnut costs us £10 a month as she is a pedigree whereas Treacle is only £5. That cost per year is nothing compared to the cost over the last day and the ongoing treatment costs.
Thanks for all the hugs - Walnut appreciates them too cos she is feeling very sorry for herself at the moment
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, just getting a new puppy myself i think i had better sort out some insurance straight away.
