Update
I thought it was time that I did a bit more fund raising and gave an update on the SM Cavalier Collection scheme
I'm pleased to say that we now have the scheme shown on Dr Clare Rusbridge's homepage.
The beautiful dog in the photo is my Ch. Mareve Indiana ( Monty ) who was postmortemed by Clare when he died in 2004.
http://www.veterinary-neurologist.co.uk/
For those that are interested, I have posted a little about the nitty gritty details of the scheme. For those that are very sensitive, you may just want to look at the fund raising information.......
We had our second little dog volunteered for postmortem a few weeks ago. She was eleven years old & had been MRI scanned in 2005. Her SM was well controlled with medication and she actually died of cancer.
This little cavalier died on a Friday in the late afternoon. There were wonderful volunteers ready to help transport the little body to Cambridge, but unfortunately there were no pathologists available to do the postmortem on the Saturday ( the PM has to be done within 24 hours, the body cannot be frozen )We had to call the collection off.
The owner was disappointed as she had been very keen that her little girl's death should help with research into this horrible condition.
Fortunately late that evening Dr Rusbridge offered to do the PM on the Saturday afternoon.
I cannot say how much I appreciated the volunteer who answered my last minute call at 10 pm on Friday, & dropped everything to deliver her to Wimbledon the next day.
I then contacted the duty vet to be told that the little body had been in the vet's freezer for a few hours. She was removed and fortunately was not so frozen as to be unsuitable for PM.
Her ashes are now safely back with her owner.
The fundraising has been doing quite well, Jan & Brian as always are wonderful, and I sold £110 worth of old Cavalier Club Year Books and was given an individual donation of £100 from a very generous breeder.
I have now put some more items on eBay. Please take a look.............
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Tricolour Cushion Item Id:290324262521
Small Picture of Two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Item Id:290324276748
Top Dog by C M McMuck, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Item Id:290324282688
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Syringomyelia Seminar DVD Item Id:290324321817