04/05/2024
Mango massacre 😱😰🤯
Summer season is always enjoyed with fresh seasonal mangoes. This delicious fruit is also something our fur babies (specially dogs) love. But, sometimes this love becomes a curse for them when they devour the large and hard mango seeds,thinking 'it must be a mango as it smells like one'. They can mischiviously steal it from a trash can /abandoned plate or they can playfully sn**ch it out of your hand and gulp it down before you could do something. But it is a mistake to think that a mango seed will come out of our pooches system naturally. We are referring to two patients who came to the clinic with almost the same symptoms of continuous vomitting and vomitting like p**p and breath smelling like p**p. One of them, the golden retriever's (pesta) owner ,knew the second he had it. But wanted to wait for it to come out either by vomit or by p**p. Neither happened. And 2 months later when the symptoms of vomiting p**p started we knew where and what to look for. But because of this delay we had to remove the nectrotised part of the intestine ,where the seed was seated. The dog is doing very good now and regained health within 1.5months of surgery. The other one was a French mastiff (Ringo, M, 4yrs), who was vomitting for last 1.5months. A lot of treatments were done without results and he was just a bag of bones when he came to us. But we were fortunate that he took the surgery well and we found a very large mango seed from his intestine. And it was by God's grace that we didn't have to cut out that whole part of the intestine to get the seed out. He is also doing well, regaining health within 2 months of the surgery and is now goofing around again.
We have saved a lot of furbabies from mango seeds, but unfortunately, we are only human beings and cannot save every patient with such condition because of lack of time. Sometimes the pets don't show symptoms until it's too late, sometimes they come to us for detection so late and the baby deteriorates so fast that we don't even get to go for surgery before we lose the battle.
Although this is not breed specific,still we have mostly seen labradors and golden retrievers eat mango seeds. Although there were other breeds, they were less in number.
So our humble request to all pet parents and dog lovers is to be careful about the disposal of mango seeds to save your pup from unnecessary health hazards.
We, team Moitri Bhabana pray that, may you and your pups stay happy and healthy to enjoy this summer with mangoes without a massacre.... 🥭😀😃
