My greyhound, Rebel, is the money pit here since we got the golden retriever 7 years ago. The golden is obsessed with food, thankfully not aggressive but hovers over Rebel's bowl making sure there is nothing left. Rebel started eating wood chunks that were left on the floor after the golden had packed firewood into the other room and chewed the bark off. It took us 7 months to figure out what was going on. Every visit was between 300/700, and he was in at least every other week. The meds were ridiculously expensive!
Surgery was the only option left to us, when he went in the vet warned us she might have to take his tail to try and close him up. Rebel lost 3" of colon, most of his sphincter muscle and tissue affected by fistula.
They were only half kidding when they said they were setting up a room for me in his kennel. I usually do the after care myself, he gets nervous when I'm not there and it scares them when Rebels temp starts going up and the panting starts.
Took 8 months for him to regain bowel control but he's fine now, well he is gassier than before. He turns 13 in July, and his eyesight is getting cloudy but nothing we can't work around.
