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Thank you to everyone who has sent love and good wishes to Jack ♥ It really means a lot. We picked him up from the vets this evening. His castration went fine, but when they cut his face open to remove the saliva gland the whole area was too swollen and abscessed to operate on – so they drained it as much as they could and left the drain in his face so it continued to drain over the next few days.

He's pretty unsteady on his feet still and keeps crashing into everything with his lampshade collar!

We have to keep the area bathed and clean and as dry as possible. It’s pretty gross, it’s just oozing puss and blood and smells like raw meat – in fact cleaning him up is like cutting through a pre-packed joint of meat!

He has a bunch of tablets to take starting tomorrow, and they gave us some special dinner for him for the next few days. He’s back in on Monday for his post-op consultation and either Tuesday or Wednesday to have the drain removed and to decide where we go from here.

I’ll probably be up with him most of tonight, so feel free to spam my email/phone/whatever!

( A photo of Jack post-op – not for the squeamish! )

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Thank you to everyone who has sent love and good wishes to Jack ♥ It really means a lot. We picked him up from the vets this evening. His castration went fine, but when they cut his face open to remove the saliva gland the whole area was too swollen and abscessed to operate on – so they drained it as much as they could and left the drain in his face so it continued to drain over the next few days.

He's pretty unsteady on his feet still and keeps crashing into everything with his lampshade collar!

We have to keep the area bathed and clean and as dry as possible. It’s pretty gross, it’s just oozing puss and blood and smells like raw meat – in fact cleaning him up is like cutting through a pre-packed joint of meat!

He has a bunch of tablets to take starting tomorrow, and they gave us some special dinner for him for the next few days. He’s back in on Monday for his post-op consultation and either Tuesday or Wednesday to have the drain removed and to decide where we go from here.

I’ll probably be up with him most of tonight, so feel free to spam my email/phone/whatever!

( A photo of Jack post-op – not for the squeamish! )