08/14/2026
One of our alps - Owain - has had a bump on his top gum that has been growing for several months. We chatted with the provincial vets and then with the Atlantic Veterinary Hospital (AVC) In Prince Edward Island and took Owain there in early August. The expectation was it would have to be surgically removed. However, after seeing Owain, the vets believed another approach would be simpler. They installed some bands on the base of the lump, thus restricting the blood supply to the lump, and the thinking was that it would take a week or so to shrink and drop off. A week passed, and it had changed, was smaller but still there, so perhaps some more time would be needed. The next morning all this changed - the lump had fallen off, and he was eating hay as alps do. Wow is an understatement!! The folks at AVC were wonderful, and Owain is back to normal.
