Last nite when Jim got home from picking up Drew and a buddy from soccer, they were all alarmed to find a gaping wound in the side of Daisy Mae! They were suppose to be meeting us at the ice rink for dinner but instead called me in a panic to report the injury. Jim - who never worries about anything - was worried about this!
The pic makes it look better than it actually was!
We decided that it was not life threatening so we would not go to the emergency vet on a Friday nite but would wait til morning. Jim proceeded to administer first aid - see the pic with the tape around Daisy's middle. And the boys did some CSI work to figure out what happened to her. They were not able to solve the mystery.
They pieced Daisy Mae together and came down to the ice rink for some dinner. And while at dinner we were emailing pics of the wound to Tina's friend who is a vet in So Cal. She advised it needed stitches.
When I got home, I was alarmed by the size of the wound! But still decided it could wait til the morning.
Jim and I went out into the backyard to do our own CSI work. Jim quickly found the site of the injury: a polar 120 cooler with a sharp hinge. She must have run by it at great speed - probably on the way to bark at the mail man!
She was fine all nite and left the wound alone because I told her to! (She is a good dog) But she still wanted to lick it so she licked her leg instead.
This morning I took her to the vet as soon as they opened and I had to leave her there to be sedated, cleaned and stitched up!
My poor baby. More pics to come later.
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