My Dog’s Trip to The Vet’s Clinic

My dog aged 10 was diagnosed with a Uterus infection approximately a month ago. She is a quite healthy female German shepherd, fun loving and often quite lazy. During the initial stages of the infection we were quite clueless about her condition. And with her being a senior citizen we got quite flustered. Her stomach had bloated up to massive proportions and we were almost misled into thinking that she’d been impregnated.


The Mystery of the Bloated Stomach was quite unnerving as we really didn’t know what was wrong with our girl. We’d ruled out the pregnancy option as we hadn’t taken her for mating, the last one had been approximately 2 years ago. We almost usually tend to overreact when things go wrong with our pet. She was immediately bundled up, thrust into the car and rushed to her doctor.

Doc too didn’t seem to know what was wrong with her until he had her scanned. The scan came up murky and unclear. It was then that the idea of an infection popped into his head. We hadn’t yet grasped the gravity of the situation until he informed us that he had to operate on her immediately. As a result of the infection almost 2-3 liters of puss had formed in her uterus causing it to balloon up. Our dog had been sloshing around for almost two days carrying this heavy load before it came into our notice.

His quick thinking and on the spot decision making were I feel, the only two things that saved her life. Once the operation had commenced successfully, we were allowed to bring her home with us.

She was greeted like the Indian team, after winning the World Cup! The good thing was, she is alive and with us today. The bad thing – He (the doctor) stuck her head in a cone (the kind they often use in hospitals). This was unfortunately necessary as it would prevent her from opening up her stitches, which the doctor predicted would cause some discomfort to her in the coming days.

So for the past few days, she’s been lurching around bumping into furniture and looking very much like a scoop of chocolate ice cream in a cone! Only a few days ago, she’d been freed from her burden and is now on the road to recovery. I do salute to the man behind her recovery and I feel that we too can do more service to the animal world by considering this career option ourselves (The veterinary field).