Horsepower Equine & Canine Massage

04/14/2024

Professional Canine & Equine Massage Therapy
Education • Knowledge • Compassion
Serving Wellington County & Beyond
Veterinary Technician & 2200 hour equine massage therapy course through Darcy Lane
Graduated with the clinical award of excellence
Experience with all breeds/sizes and disciplines as well as a variety of canine and equine conditions.
Specializing in a higher standard of care to ensure your pet's performance and that they get the quality of treatments they deserve.
Est. 2016

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Appointments are done at home or on farm to ensure your animal's ultimate comfort.

Phone: 226-387-1543

03/06/2024

A little Bolt update- Our follow up appointment was inconclusive- there is still a small lump on bolt in the original site as once open the tumour has dissipated. Bolt is not the first case to be writing his own rules and after much research by our vet we have learned that he will continue to write his own rules.

For the next 4 weeks he wants heavy healing time and tissue/ muscle rebuild for bolt before even considering any more procedures. The vet did offer a positive glimmer of hope in that Bolt's immune system may fight off whatever is remaining - this is not unheard of whatsoever. We will carefully monitor and continue his regimen of pepcid and benadryl as well as the following:

Daily 🫶
Massage therapy
Contrast hydrotherapy to flush his lymphatic system continually
Supporting his immune system health- strictly unprocessed raw diet
Supplements of Kelp, turkeys tail mushroom blend, immune boosters and Full Spectrum CBD Oil
Daily exercise and swimming when we are in warmer climates after the Sportsman Show🌵🏜️

We want to thank everyone for your support, kind words, encouragement, donations and love that has stepped up for us during this tough time with our four legged friend. 🐾

Ty and I are one heck of a team and we would do anything for eachother but we could not have done it truly without those that supported us. We chose to raise the money for the surgery ourselves through our go fund me and our friend glen and all the wonderful donators chose to setup the auction for us to help us with all remaining costs and ongoing costs here.

Thankyou ❤️
The support of our friends and family that have been there for us through this speaks VOLUMES.

We give our GENUINE hearts and souls into everything we do and we are so lucky to receive the kindness we have in return 🙏🏼

We will keep praying and keep updating periodically as bolt continues to heal and grow stronger each day 🙏🏼🐾

Sincerely,

Ty, Tia & Bolt ⚡
TEAM TNT

02/08/2024

BOLTS URGENT SURGERY- UPDATE

Update: we have raised Over $760 for bolt through through our GoFundMe and a friend and Charter captain at Young’s Big Water Sportfishing raised $500 for us as well through raffling off a charter in the spring. Our friend Glen F H Worsley has also organized an auction to help cover the costs of bolts surgery and recovery. We could not be more grateful for everyone that has come together and donated to Bolt's health and betterment. We love each and every one of you like family and we cannot say how much we appreciate the donations and the kind words.

Yesterday I took bolt into the vet clinic for pre-anesthetic blood work. The vet was wonderful with him as was his assistant. However, Bolt would not stand still for the vet to find a vein. So I ended up applying a tourniquet to both front legs and doing the blood draws myself as per the vet's okay. It has been over 5 years since I've drawn blood from a canine patient and I got my pokes first try and Bolt was an absolute superstar. He laid there without restraint or anyone around him by himself while I patiently took his blood and he just looked the other way. He is an absolute superstar ❤️🙏

I am in tears writing this and never thought I would have to share or worry about this with our best friend 🙏
We are asking for help to cover the remaining costs of this emergency surgery for Bolt ❤️
Every single bit counts as we were certainly not prepared for this.

COSTS:
Pre anesthetic bloodwork and testing of body functions was $496 CAD
Surgery is estimated to be around $3000++

Please feel free to share this on social media ❤️

My mom has put together a fundraiser for bolt to help with the cost of his urgent surgery as well as his aftercare and rehabilitation.

For those of you that don't know, last year I took both in for a regular exam and the vet that we took him to unfortunately did a very vague exam. I asked her to take a look at the lump and she said it was just a lipoma without even feeling it. I asked her if we should have tests done to further understand what it is so we could catch it if it was anything serious and she said that would not be necessary. Due to this misdiagnosis we now have to have this surgery more urgently than ever.

Mast cell tumors in dogs are serious and bolts is located over his right side of his chest over top of his lungs and heart. The malignancy of these tumors is very serious and they spread fast to surrounding tissue so the surgery will be in depth and will remove all surrounding tissue as well to ensure that all of it has been removed.

We are reaching out to friends and family to ask for help in this matter. The surgery is estimated at quite a bit more than we are asking for paired with the aftercare and rehabilitation that bolt will need to heal properly.

Bolt is a huge part of our everyday lives. He is our fishing buddy and our best friend. He is the core of our family and we value him so much as a part of our daily lives. Bolt was adopted from the Hamilton Burlington SPCA when I worked there as a veterinary technician. He came in as a orphaned puppy in a litter of nine with a mom that was hit by car. I knew him from the time he was 4 days old and have been with him through every step of his life. He has had to have minor procedures as a puppy but nothing that I thought would lead to this. He has always been fed the best diets and the best supplements and we always ensure that he is put first before our needs. This is absolutely gutting and heart-wrenching but we are trying to stay positive for him and hoping for a very speedy recovery and only positive news from here on out.

Bolt has been there with me through everything in my life and he continues to be a very large part of ty and i's life and our family ❤️ he is a huge part of our daily lives and we want to do whatever we can to set him up for success to live many more years to come.

We appreciate your donations and could not be more grateful to have such wonderful friends and family that have reached out to support us during this time.

If there is any money left after all costs have been taken care of, it will be donated to the Hamilton Burlington SPCA where we adopted Bolt from when I worked as a veterinary technician there.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tnt-fishing-lures-team-mascot-bolt-cancer-surgery?utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&fbclid=IwAR1tkoalE-6JZ33osX4Xil0-c8G2d85zuZpkdLsWSZbriQ__h4k4faCHv6w

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