About a dog
Piper get's a bad rap. I'll admit that she perhaps has more that her fair share of energy, but really she's just a lovey. She can go to the park sans leash, and adores Lily. I admit that my dogs are not extremely well behaved and completely unsocialized, but they are great with the Lily, and that's all we really care about. Although, Sadie has redeemed herself by having a complete lack of motivation, thus seeming "mellow".
Anyway, back to Piper. I let the dogs out the other afternoon, and when I called them in, Piper was bleeding fairly significantly from her back toe. The knuckle in fact. I did some triage and could plainly see a tendon...so I performed doggy first aid and left her alone. cut to 3 days later. The wound is now 3 times the size, hair is gone, and it looks infected. We go to the vet, who tells me she has given herself a lick granuloma (which I promptly came home and googled) and proclaims "I have bad news, it's a fate worse than death. The E-collar...for at least 2 weeks". I figured, no big deal! However, upon returning home I soon realized that this was going to be a huge pain in the rear. I put the collar on her at 3:30pm, and she hardly moved and would not lie down until midnight. I was about to take it off her at 10:30 when Andy informed me that tonight would be the worst, and "she's like a baby, you just have to let her cry it out". Funny.
She's doing better today, has mastered the art of lying down with the satellite dish around her neck, and although I'm pretty sure she is clinically depressed about the whole situation, the toe looks better already.
Anyway, back to Piper. I let the dogs out the other afternoon, and when I called them in, Piper was bleeding fairly significantly from her back toe. The knuckle in fact. I did some triage and could plainly see a tendon...so I performed doggy first aid and left her alone. cut to 3 days later. The wound is now 3 times the size, hair is gone, and it looks infected. We go to the vet, who tells me she has given herself a lick granuloma (which I promptly came home and googled) and proclaims "I have bad news, it's a fate worse than death. The E-collar...for at least 2 weeks". I figured, no big deal! However, upon returning home I soon realized that this was going to be a huge pain in the rear. I put the collar on her at 3:30pm, and she hardly moved and would not lie down until midnight. I was about to take it off her at 10:30 when Andy informed me that tonight would be the worst, and "she's like a baby, you just have to let her cry it out". Funny.
She's doing better today, has mastered the art of lying down with the satellite dish around her neck, and although I'm pretty sure she is clinically depressed about the whole situation, the toe looks better already.
posted by The Wheeler Family at
7:55 PM
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