In a fitting wind-up to the holiday season, we had to take Molly to the emergency vet on Monday night. She and Buzz got into a scrap over a chunk of rawhide chew-bone as we were dismantling the Christmas tree. All of a sudden, all hell broke loose, with gnashing teeth, barking and screaming.
It's hard to break up two dogs that are intent on shredding each other with their fangs. Allie and I both sustained minor bites, not much more than skin nicks, really.
Buzz appeared to have gotten the worst of it, slightly fitting as it was his retarded ass that started it, with some wounds around his eye socket where Molly had clamped on and wouldn't let go. Molly was limping afterwards, and we figured it was a pulled muscle from my wrestling her down to the ground. Several hours later, Molly's mood was really down, and Allison noticed that she had a gaping wound, right down to muscle, on one of her upper front legs..we totally missed it.
So, off to the emergency vet for sedation and stitches. If she was a hurting unit after the fight, she was moreso after getting home from the vet. She whimpered and whined all night, limping worse than before the surgery, with the stitches and a newly installed drain in the wound..oh yeah, and the lampshade on her head.
She'll be oing to our regular vet in a few days to get the drain out, then again later for the stitches. We can do without this kind of adventure, thanks very much.
Stupid dogs.
posted by Unknown @ 10:01 AM
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Cats are so bloody superior... I bet Doc is laughing his ass off at that dog.
OUR cats are not much better off having been scrapping since we got the two.
So from the comments I'm gonna guess that one of the cats (Doc?) thought this was a good opportunity for revenge and inflicted this damage unseen so the blame would fall on Buzz correct?
I hope Molly, a.k.a. Sputnik now, is okay. Would a "Get Well Rabbit" help her out?:)
This is the only time their scrapping has resulted in a hospital visit. Although they did it to themselves, it is possible that Doc planted the chewie in a place sure to cause trouble. We think he's old and lethargic..because that's what he wants us to think...
Molly is doing better..currently milking it for all it's worth.
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