I asked the vet to check his teeth as there is something so odd about his eating – as I have mentioned before. Last weekend I tried moving him to meat, but he just spat out the meat and hunted out the few biscuits I put in there. He seemed genuinely confused by the new food in his bowl. So I persevered for a couple of days thinking he would get used to it. But he didn’t. He is so small, after a couple of days it was apparent he was going to lose a lot of weight and we put him back to the dried food again.
So I really wanted the vet to check his teeth and to take out any teeth if there was a problem while they were neutering him.
The x-rayed him and his jaw and teeth were OK, so they then scanned him and found he has a “very tiny brain”. He has fluid on the brain and would have been born like this. The vet we saw, said that when they looked at the scan, all the vets there were surprised that Horace was alive and functioning because his brain is so tiny.
The vet said the condition could be dangerous if the fluid grows – and we don’t know if the fluid has grown proportionately since he was a puppy or if it is the same. Although I don’t think he acts any differently and I certainly don’t think we’ve seen a degeneration in him. They will put him on some medication to try to reduce the fluid and we’ll talk to the vets again on Monday.