This is the famous Scruffy i have been including in my posts.
check out this link from our friends across the Atlantic.i hope the link works just getting the photo on here has drained my limited techno ability.when you open link click on know your pet and input copd.Apparrentley horses get it too.
Oh, she really is scruffy but so cute with it. I'm sure she wouldn't appreciate being called cute, not with that 'don't mess with me ' expression and belligerent eyeballing. You know who she reminds me of ? William, in the 'Just William' stories by Richmal Crompton. He wears his school cap at just the angle of Scruffy's ears and his knee socks flapping round his ankles.
In this heat even 15-second ambles can be hell. Don't overdo it Scruffy, get youknowwho to bring the food to you.
She has a wonky eye and a wonky ear because i believe she may have been in an traffic accident at some time in her previous.i believe in the photo she was swearing at me to let her back in the house.x
Mine too Don, I thought his life of wandering the countryside and getting into scrapes was the perfect life for a 10/11/12 year old. Of course as a girl, it was a bit harder to pull off William as a role model. nobody would want to be Violet Elizabeth Bott.
Sorry Skischool, I realise I've gone off topic on your thread about animals with COPD. I will promptly cease and desist.
None of my cats have displayed any respiratory symptoms apart from occasional coughing spasms when getting up a hair ball. But two weeks ago when my sweet Splash was approaching the end, his breathing became laboured about two hours before the vet was due. We put a fan on on a gentle strength and placed it on the floor, pointing upwards to the sofa he was lying on. This always helps me and it helped him too. He cooled down, calmed down and his breathing went back to normal.
I remember a member querying the cause of COPD usually being given as cigarette smoking given that it has been around for many, many years in the animal kingdom. She wondered how many horses had smoked?
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