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Posted: 5th January 2015

Constipated goldfish has £300 surgery
goldfish
The owner made the decision to pay £300 for the life-saving surgery.
Owner pays Norfolk vet hundreds of pounds to save his fishy friend

A goldfish owner from Norfolk has paid vets £300 to perform life-saving surgery on his constipated pet.

After taking the goldfish to the Toll Barn Veterinary Centre in North Walsham, he was told his pet would need surgery to remove the blockages.

Vet Faye Bethell, who performed the surgery, told the Telegraph: "I have never done a procedure like that on a goldfish, although I have done it before on more valuable fish like a carp.

"The actual surgery is quite straightforward but administering the anaesthetic is quite complicated. The issue was the fish couldn't poo and it would have eventually become toxic and it would have died.

"There was nothing special about the fish. He just liked it a lot. People love their pets - but that was an expensive little goldfish."




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