Shelby had surgery! Our dog Shelby had a large fatty tumor between her toes. We decided to have it removed. Surgery is never fun, and always has risks. Surgery on animals is very similar to surgery with people. We wanted to document this surgery for our dog to share with you our experience. Almost like a surgery vlog. But we also wanted to keep you educated and informed about what goes on during surgery on a dog.
Alright Shelby, we're on our way to the vet.
Shelby is having surgery on this foot
to remove a bump.
All right, let's go.
So for those of you that may be new and may not watch our vlog channel at Snow Dogs Vlogs,
you may not know this already. Shelby has a fatty tumor between her toes and that's what she's having surgery for today.
I know. Yeah, she loves the vet's office. She gets so excited like Memphis when we get here.
So it's between her two toes right here and they're worried that as it grows
it's gonna hurt her joints and make it hard for her to walk.
So today we're coming to get it removed and we're also coming to get teeth cleaned.
So fair warning, the rest of this video we probably are gonna be in the surgical room.
I'll try to give you guys a warning if I show anything that might be graphic.
I know we're gonna go inside the vet's office right now because you're excited.
Wanna go see everybody? Shelby, you wanna go to the vet? You wanna go to the vet? You're already here. Let's go inside.
So Shelby just got all her pre-meds.
Now we gotta wait about ten minutes and then we're gonna go in the back.
Was it fun? Did you get to go back there and play with everybody?
Are you excited to be at the vet?
I know. I know.
Hey Shelby, is your medicine kicking in?
Or are you just being vocal like always?
Shelby? Oh, maybe. You feeling sleepy?
She's like, I don't know guys. I feel funky.
All right, we're getting Shelby ready. Shelby, you already look super sleepy.
You look super sleepy. She's getting her IV.
These awesome people are gonna hook her up to all of her stuff.
Look at all the crazy things you guys never get to see.
And they're gonna take good care of you.
All right, so this one gives her air. Is that what this one does?
This one monitors her CO2 output to make sure that she's breathing enough.
The ones we're gonna put on her legs.
Those are her ECG and those will monitor her heart.
And then we have this one here that does her pulse and measures her oxygenation of her tissues.
And blood pressure.
And blood pressures. You get hooked up to all the things. Shelby's pretty much asleep already you guys.
They're hooking her up to all the things.
So this fancy machine over here can monitor all of her vitals and make sure she's okay.
So because Shelby's actually going under, we're gonna go ahead and have them clean her teeth.
They're not super bad, but it's better to do instead of putting her under a bunch of times.
And then the bump on her toe...
is right there.
They're gonna remove that afterwards.
Here's Shelby's foot. They got it all shaved and now you can see...
That's the bump and you can see it's actually spreading her toes apart.
We're gonna get that gone.
I'm pretty much done with her teeth.
So they're looking better.
And now we're just gonna go on and get the bump done.
She's being so good. It might be because she's sleepy.
All right, we're getting everything ready.
Don't worry, I won't show you guys all the yucky parts.
No blood and guts. We won't make you guys...
We'll just make you uncomfortable seeing Shelby like this, but trust me, she's okay. She's all right.
So now Shelby gets to go from this little fun area here into the surgery room over here.
So they're gonna move her in there so they can take the bump off of her foot.
She won't even know though. She'll be sleeping the whole time.
There they go, taking a Shelby.
So now she'll get to be in there and then they'll remove her bump.
This is all the fun behind-the-scenes stuff. You guys don't always get to see.
They're hooking her back up to all that same equipment she was hooked up to out here.
So they can check her vitals and things like that. See cuz they had it over there and now they're doing it in here.
I'm not allowed to go in there though.
She's in there. She's doing good.
All right, so Shelby's all done.
She's still kind of out of it. She's got her foot all nice and wrapped up.
She's just slowly waking up right now.
We're just kind of chilling while she wakes up so we can get her in the car and take her home.
We got to come back tomorrow and have her foot re-wrapped, but I'll talk to you guys some more once we get home.
All right, we are in the car.
She is awake, sort of.
Shelby, you look like you're kind of drugged up there.
Good thing you got that nice comfy bed all to yourself.
All right, we're taking her home and I'll explain a little bit more about what the doctor said as soon as we get there.
All right, before I get too far into this video,
I wanted to let you guys know the limited edition Shelby shirts that you guys asked for. There's only like four days left.
There's a link down in the video description below.
Part of the proceeds we will be donating to other Huskies in need. You guys had asked for that.
We wanted to make sure we got it up and I think there's four days left.
So now let's get to the story of what's going on.
And we made it home.
Shelby was still a little cold after surgery.
So we gave her a blanket for a little bit here and make sure she gets her body temperature back up to where it needs to be.
A lot of times they have to use like heated blankets and like the surgery table that Shelby was on was actually a
heated surgery table and it helps to regulate their body temperature while having surgery.
Shelby was still a little bit cold when we left. So we just said we'll make sure to give her a nice blanket.
So she's got my spirit hood blanket.
Snuggling on the floor right here. We put her on the bed, but she wanted to be right here.
So we're just gonna make sure that she's not shaking anymore and she's doing okay.
So updates. Shelby had what we're pretty sure was a fatty tumor between her toes on her foot and
when Dr. Ryan removed it, he said
it was a little more complicated than he thought it was gonna be and that the
fatty tumor didn't behave like a normal fatty tumor.
So they are going to send out the piece that they took out from between her toes and have it tested.
They will test it for cancer or for other things just to see. They'll also test it to see if it was just a fatty
tumor, which is what we're still hoping, but we just want to be sure so we are having it sent out.
Shelby did really good during the surgery. She only had one small complication.
She did regurgitate while under anesthesia.
If you don't know what that means, basically she like puked a little bit while she had a tube down her throat,
which is not a good thing because
they can get fluid in their lungs.
So they had like a suction thing ready because you know
it does happen from time to time and
they told me they were pretty sure that they were able to suck all the fluid before it went back down into her.
But we have to watch her for the next couple days to make sure she's not coughing because
normally what that will do is it can cause a dog to get pneumonia. She's so sleepy.
So anyway, we just pretty much have to watch her for that for the next couple days.
But so far she hasn't coughed at all. So we've been doing pretty good.
She's very sleepy. The other dogs are like right here. Oakley was just in her kennel.
She's now right here going back to her kennel. They were very concerned when we brought her in.
Memphis is like, that's my sister. I gotta make sure she's doing okay.
So, yeah, there is your Shelby surgery update.
That's all we really have for today you guys.
I wanted to do a new treat video today since 4th of July is coming up.
I wanted to have it up today.
But because of this and because we just got back from VidCon in California, we just didn't have time.
So I figured I'd just share this with you guys today and let you know what's going on with our Shelby girl.
Our Shelby girl.
All right, you guys.
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We have to go back tomorrow and have that big old bandage redone.
Then after that we can pretty much do it on our own.
So if you want to see more updates of Shelby,
I mean, she'll be in the rest of the videos this week.
You'll see her again on Friday for Fan Friday, but you can also check us out at youtube.com slash Snow Dogs Vlogs.
Starting this Monday, you'll see more updates of Shelby.
We still have more VidCon vlogs to upload.
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