
23/09/2025
Introducing… Sasha! 🖤
Sasha arrived at our Bishop Auckland branch on Friday afternoon, her initial symptoms were dry heaving, breathlessness and bloated abdomen. Due to her breed we were immediately concerned that Sasha was suffering from a condition called gastric dilation volvulus (GDV); a condition that is life threatening 💔
Sasha was rushed through the back for X-rays to be taken to confirm a GDV, on examination of the X-rays it appeared that her stomach was indeed bloated however a volvulus (twisting of the stomach) had not happened; it turns out Sasha had a procedure performed by our amazing vet Alison, 6 years ago called a Gastropexy, this essentially ties the stomach to prevent torsion in situations such as these… that procedure played a huge role in saving her life 🫶🏻
Our nursing team worked quickly to gain intravenous access, provide shock rates of fluid therapy, monitor all vitals, take X-rays, recognise heart arrhythmias on ECG (common with GD/GDVs), and reported everything to the hospital vet, Jeremy. 👨⚕️
Sasha’s stomach was decompressed, and measured. She was monitored overnight by our fantastic out of hours team and went home the very next day! 🖤
This was an amazing team effort, and it’s safe to say without the work of our WHOLE team the outcome would have been very different 🐾💚
Thank you to Sasha’s owners for allowing us to share her story 🐾