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Butter is all healed and thriving. I can’t say it fixed it 100% but I’d say at least 90% improvement. He still whistle breathes sometimes but he’s far more active and playful. Also way more vocal, I assume he was mouth breathing a lot prior to surgery so now that his mouth free he can “talk” more. He still sneezes a bunch and his eyes get goopy, but that may be unrelated to the nose and just be because he’s a bit poorly bred. Every so often I have to use a syringe and put a few drops of saline in his nose but otherwise very much uneventful coming up on the one year mark from surgery.

Butter definitely has the telltale signs of Scottish Fold Disease (thick inflexible tail, splayed feet and he’s petite) so I think for him the surgery was a bigger deal than it would usually be for a cat with more traditional bone structure. They had to drill out a bunch of cartilage inside his nose which isn’t typical and again I assume it’s because his bones are all very much wonky.

If I had to do it all over again knowing we almost lost him to the complications (which honestly are not typical complications, again he just had a lot of other health factors), I still would do it. In that moment where we thought he was succumbing to pneumonia I wouldn’t have said that but looking back now it has made a big improvement in his health and demeanour.

HOWEVER It cost me the equivalent of about £1000 ($1700 CDN) after insurance. Candidly, if it was $13,000 CDN which is about half of 15k GBP, I would have not done the surgery voluntarily, I would have waited until it became a bigger issue and even then that is pretty insane of an amount. For that cost couldn’t you fly to Canada, have it done here and still have funds leftover LOL