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Great Dane Discussions / Gastric tack? Trying to avoid bloat through surgery....
« on: March 22, 2006, 07:43:00 am »
Hiho,
I've been lurking a while and this is my first real post. I was wondering about your opinions about the gastric tack, a surgery to help decrease the risks of gastric torsion. Have you done it with your dogs? Why or why not?
A great dane breeder here with whom I'm corresponding says that it's actually much less traumatic than the ear surgery which can be 5 months of bandaging and ointments and with the gastric tack after 20 days your baby is as good as new and a lot safer actually. (Of course she says you still have to follow all the preventatives cause one doesn't play with bloat!) She's never had one of her dogs succumb (and this is over 20 years.)
So ..... your opinions? And at what age did you do it or think it should be done?
Thanks in advance!
-Karina
living in Brasil and dogless for now but researching up a storm!
I've been lurking a while and this is my first real post. I was wondering about your opinions about the gastric tack, a surgery to help decrease the risks of gastric torsion. Have you done it with your dogs? Why or why not?
A great dane breeder here with whom I'm corresponding says that it's actually much less traumatic than the ear surgery which can be 5 months of bandaging and ointments and with the gastric tack after 20 days your baby is as good as new and a lot safer actually. (Of course she says you still have to follow all the preventatives cause one doesn't play with bloat!) She's never had one of her dogs succumb (and this is over 20 years.)
So ..... your opinions? And at what age did you do it or think it should be done?
Thanks in advance!
-Karina
living in Brasil and dogless for now but researching up a storm!
