The vet practice I go to for Gizmo treats all size animals, and as for large animals, I can say the way a horse is treated and quickly makes a huge difference. I had one wild stud who would break down stalls to get to the mares, and this same vet practice I use now came out and gelded him, the same way Dr Pol does, by just cutting the skin open, pulling them out and utting tem off, then stitching it back up, and he was fine right away. The one time I used another vet, while my normal vet was on vacation, I had a mare who was bloated in the evening, the vet that came out just gave her some medicine and told me to watch her, well she was dead by 5 the next morning. I have never let another vet see my animals since, and I've been going to this practice for 30 years :-)
The thing they are doing when they sew a cows stomach to the side, is because one of the cows stomachs becomes twisted, and it will die if not put back into place and kept there. Cows have 2 stomachs that can easily get twisted. The way I have seen Dr Pol fix bloat in a cow, is with a spike that screws into the cow in very quickly, like in seconds. The spike has a tube down the center of it and releases the trapped gas. Wow this bringing me back some memories :-) |