My daughter who just had the baby had to put her French Bulldog down today. The poor bugger had a number of spinal abnormalities that were giving him pain. We were assured that spinal surgery for the neck area would alleviate the majority of the pain, and the remainder could be handled with anti-inflammatory drugs, so we went ahead on the basis he would be up and about, but kept quiet for 2 weeks. Well , 8 weeks later we finally got him over the neck surgery, only for him to collapse from the other spinal issues which could only be controlled with pain relief, so strong he would be asleep the whole time - anti inflamms were of no use - unfortunately this all happened last night and he was rushed to an emerg vet and it was time to say goodbye to the little champ this morning. First vet didn't quite get the balance of injury management right unfortunately, as 'in hindsight' we should not have put him thru the agony of the neck surgery - but you try to keep them don't you. RIP Hugo.