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Bop |
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When tiny Bop, who was born feral in 2006, was rescued from slaughter, he was found to have bad confirmation due to bad breeding. This
brave pony is about 30 inches high. In
2011, he came through a major operation to help save his life.
In
early summer, the equine vet was called when Bop started to have
problems controlling his back legs. Bop was bright and, apart from his
back legs, behaving just as usual. Bop ended up having an operation to
remove a tumour which was compressing his spinal cord.. As
the tumour was close to the nerves, the vet was only able to remove
about 60 percent of it.
Within
hours of the surgery, brave Bop was up and walking around, so early
signs of his recovery were encouraging. Sadly, the results of a biopsy
of the tumour showed that it was cancerous.
Now
living at St Mary Hoo, Bop underwent a course of very low dose of
chemotherapy, which was administered weekly on site by the vet. The dose
was low so as not to cause Bop any further illness, but hopefully shrink
the size of the remains of the tumour and so reduce the compression on
his spinal cord.
Despite all he’s been through, Bop’s
spirits are still high.
Bop
is in the Anim-Motes Care for Life scheme and will be spending the rest
of his life with us - we hope he has a happy and carefree one.
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