Hello everyone, meet Bertie.

Bertie is our beautiful, fun, loving British Bull dog. He is 3 ½months old. Bertie is usually full of life and loves to play with all of his toys. He belongs to a very loving home which is where we're trying to get him back too.

On the 02/09/21 Bertie went in for a very standard operation to repair his Cherry Eye. The vets were very happy with how the surgery went and he seemed to be coping well too. When we got him home he was bounding around, playing with his toys with only a little irritation to his throat where they had anaesthetised him. It was in the evening when we really noticed that there was something not quite right. He was struggling to breathe and wasn't moving around as he normally does. We took him straight to the royal vetinary college where he has been since. When we first got him there he was given very little chance to survive as he wasn't responding well to a high dosage of oxygen. They told us we would have a decision to make, we chose to fight for him. They then gave us the prognosis which was that his airways had completely closed up, which led him to aspirate into his lungs, causing him to have aspirational pneumonia. He was put onto a ventilator as he wasn't able to breathe for himself. He then had an operation to install a tracheotomy tube to help him breathe without the machine. It took a little time for him to no longer need the ventilator but he had been off of that for a few days. He also had periods of time since then without the trach in and he had been up and about which at the time were really positive signs.

Since removing the tracheotomy tube, Bertie seemed to be coping really well, this was until he had a setback which could have proved to be devastating to his progress. The vets thought he might have had a kink in his windpipe which would have resulted in major surgery to correct this. Fortunately when they anaesthetised him they found no kinks, it was just fatty tissue making its way into the hole made by the tracheotomy, which they surgically removed and tidied around the windpipe. We have since then, today recieved great news that he is coping really well on his own, breathing fine, no stress, resting, bounding around like a puppy should and clearing his lungs as he needs to. The vet even said to us that if he continues on this rate of recovery then (fingers crossed) he could be home in a few days.

We have no doubt that we will have our cute little lad home before long but we could do with a little help with the vet bill which is really starting to mount up. If you could help us in any way then we would really appreciate it.

Many thanks

Bertie's proud parents Reece and Amy