Dempsey with his boomer ball

Caryll wrote:

shane wrote:hey caryll what happened to dempsey he has a bald patch on the right side near his shoulder,

That's from a couple of months or so ago. He suddenly & for no reason we can think of started to manically eat grass & if there was no grass, any greenery he could get hold of. Although we stopped him when we could he still took in a LOT of vegetation & his stomach started to swell up. Then he started to gag as though he was trying to be sick, but nothing would come up. So, then we had 1. restless, 2. swollen stomach & 3. trying to be sick but not able - all classic signs of bloat. We took him to the vets, they kept him in but he started to look really poorly so they had to open him up. They expected to find something in his stomach that made him eat the grass in the 1st place, but all they found was the green stuff he'd eaten. So, they cleared it all out, stitched him up & put a pain killer patch on his side, which is why that patch was shaved. Oh, and then they made a claim off the insurance for £2000+!!! Once he'd got over the operation he was back to normal in no time, we still don't know why it happened.