Puppy Patients

As you can see, Barker and Hailey aren’t in the best of health right now. Somehow, some way, they went too far over the line between wrestling and fighting. I think an anger management course is in our future somewhere. Long story short, Sarah and I had the day off yesterday. We went to lunch, Lowe’s, and then back home to work some more on our den project. When I went outside to rest on the swing a while, Barker hopped up to swing with me, and that’s when I noticed that he had a quarter-sized hole in his back. I could literally see the muscle. We discovered that Hailey had wounds to her eye (split eyelid). Thankfully our vet was still open (only for 5 more minutes at the time I called them) but they stayed late and we went in for emergency surgery on both.

So now Hailey’s a cone head, and Barker is in a doggy hospital gown to catch the drain that comes from his patched-up gash. They are going to be spending time inside for the next two weeks while they are on antibiotics and while they heal. Hailey will be wearing the cone the entire time, and she’s already not happy. We are also crating them both. Unlike their nighttime ritual, they are not hopping up with me in bed ’til Sarah gets there (then they go on the floor), no… now they are crated, but still in the bedroom. I just couldn’t think of keeping them somewhere else. They are still in shock, too, I’m sure.

But it was indeed an emotional night for us last night. Sarah and I broke down because it’s just not like our pups to be like this, and have injuries to this extent. And now this has begged a solution to the problem — what are we going to do so this won’t happen again? The jury is still out. But Sarah mentioned building two dog runs. Not a bad idea. Now, how do you build a dog run?

Back to work today. Tired. I’m loooking forward to going home in a little while to take care of the dogs and perhaps even work on the den some more to get my mind on other thoughts.