Teh One Who Knocks
03-05-2012, 11:52 AM
By Tom Gardner - The Daily Mail
It's a cosmetic surgery bill which would make even the most vain blush.
Junior the Bloodhound, who has just added a tummy tuck to last year's facelift, has run up a surgeon's bill totalling more than £10,000 in just two years.
But this is no pursuit of the perfect looks for the dead ringer of cartoon pooch Droopy.
The five-year-old dog suffers from a rare condition which causes excess skin to develop.
http://i.imgur.com/BVNGf.png
The folds last year came close to blinding him, forcing his owner to opt for surgery.
Now they have have had to put Junior back under the knife to remove excess flaps which were dangling around his belly, stopping him from running.
Junior's facelift in 2010 cost £1,200, while the latest op, a tummy tuck cost £1,500.
Further surgery and vet bills come to £6,000 while medication tops £1,000.
But owners Denise and David Smart from Selby, North Yorkshire say they had no reservations about getting surgery for their pet.
Denise said: ‘It's taken years off him and he does look like a young man again.
‘Before the operation he was fed up and looked like a grumpy old man.
‘Now he's more mobile and he's got a new lease of life.’
After having two benign tumours removed his chest area, the skin on Junior's belly began to droop and became infected.
He was taken to the vet at the start of the year and has since has three operations and 39 stitches to give him a taut belly.
Denise and David had hoped their pet would follow in his Crufts award-winning dad's footsteps.
But following a run of health problems including eye ulcers and tumours, Junior has notched up an impressive amount of treatment.
Parent support advisor Denise, 49, said: ‘We absolutely wouldn't have done anything differently, he's so much happier.
‘He must have felt awful for so long. He's like a child to us.
‘We have insurance so we haven't spent our money - but if we didn't have insurance we would have still paid for the treatment.’
When problems with Junior's sight first became apparent, the couple made repeated visits to the vet looking for a solution. At first the vet removed an eyelash.
But his condition did not improve and he began suffering from a problem called entropion which could have led to Junior - the offspring of a Crufts champion - permanently losing his sight.
Vets referred Denise and David to a specialist called Gary Lewin who performed the delicate facelift - which he later described as the most difficult he'd ever done - during a three-hour operation.
Junior's excess skin was removed allowing him to see clearly. Now the tummy tuck has been a success, the he couple's cherished pet has been given a new lease of life.
http://i.imgur.com/GCdlv.png
It's a cosmetic surgery bill which would make even the most vain blush.
Junior the Bloodhound, who has just added a tummy tuck to last year's facelift, has run up a surgeon's bill totalling more than £10,000 in just two years.
But this is no pursuit of the perfect looks for the dead ringer of cartoon pooch Droopy.
The five-year-old dog suffers from a rare condition which causes excess skin to develop.
http://i.imgur.com/BVNGf.png
The folds last year came close to blinding him, forcing his owner to opt for surgery.
Now they have have had to put Junior back under the knife to remove excess flaps which were dangling around his belly, stopping him from running.
Junior's facelift in 2010 cost £1,200, while the latest op, a tummy tuck cost £1,500.
Further surgery and vet bills come to £6,000 while medication tops £1,000.
But owners Denise and David Smart from Selby, North Yorkshire say they had no reservations about getting surgery for their pet.
Denise said: ‘It's taken years off him and he does look like a young man again.
‘Before the operation he was fed up and looked like a grumpy old man.
‘Now he's more mobile and he's got a new lease of life.’
After having two benign tumours removed his chest area, the skin on Junior's belly began to droop and became infected.
He was taken to the vet at the start of the year and has since has three operations and 39 stitches to give him a taut belly.
Denise and David had hoped their pet would follow in his Crufts award-winning dad's footsteps.
But following a run of health problems including eye ulcers and tumours, Junior has notched up an impressive amount of treatment.
Parent support advisor Denise, 49, said: ‘We absolutely wouldn't have done anything differently, he's so much happier.
‘He must have felt awful for so long. He's like a child to us.
‘We have insurance so we haven't spent our money - but if we didn't have insurance we would have still paid for the treatment.’
When problems with Junior's sight first became apparent, the couple made repeated visits to the vet looking for a solution. At first the vet removed an eyelash.
But his condition did not improve and he began suffering from a problem called entropion which could have led to Junior - the offspring of a Crufts champion - permanently losing his sight.
Vets referred Denise and David to a specialist called Gary Lewin who performed the delicate facelift - which he later described as the most difficult he'd ever done - during a three-hour operation.
Junior's excess skin was removed allowing him to see clearly. Now the tummy tuck has been a success, the he couple's cherished pet has been given a new lease of life.
http://i.imgur.com/GCdlv.png