Cincy'sMom
04-08-2005, 10:10 AM
They says things come in threes...
Last Friday, Sadie hurt her tail at dayschool. Not sure how, but Saturday morning we called the vet first thing. They said nothing was broken, no swelling, and put her on some anti-inflammatories. She was better in a day or 2, and yesterday was her last day on anti-inflammatories...
But it was Cincy's first day on the same, as well as antibiotics. I got home from work, about 5:20, and sent the dogs out, no big deal. Went out with them, and watched them race along the fence with the neighbors dog. After about 15-20 minutes, we headed inside, and Cincy laid down on the floor and started licking her leg. I told her that was enough, and didn't think too much else of it. (She has allergies, and does lick some, we just tell her enough, and she quits). Well about 2 minutes later she was doing it again, and I as told her enough, something red caught my eye. Somehow the poor girl got a triangluar shaped tear in her skin on her front leg!!! I can only imagine it was from the way she bounces under the fence when she is chasing the neighbor dog.
I called our old vet (They were open til 6, our new vet closes at 5) and asked to bring her over. They were concerned that she would need to go under for stitches and wanted me to call the ER clinic, but I asked that they please look first and see if that was neccesary (I really don't like the ER). So they asid bring her over, and thankfully it wasn't very deep. They were able to give her a shot of Lidocaine and staple it closed. So, as I said before, she is on the pills now, and goes back tomorrow morning to make sure it is healing cleanly (becuase of the triangular shape).
When we got home, I sat Spot down and explained to him, he needs to be very carefully...he DOESN'T have to make it 3!!!
I took pictures of Cincy's pretty purple bandage, I'll post when I get home from work!
Last Friday, Sadie hurt her tail at dayschool. Not sure how, but Saturday morning we called the vet first thing. They said nothing was broken, no swelling, and put her on some anti-inflammatories. She was better in a day or 2, and yesterday was her last day on anti-inflammatories...
But it was Cincy's first day on the same, as well as antibiotics. I got home from work, about 5:20, and sent the dogs out, no big deal. Went out with them, and watched them race along the fence with the neighbors dog. After about 15-20 minutes, we headed inside, and Cincy laid down on the floor and started licking her leg. I told her that was enough, and didn't think too much else of it. (She has allergies, and does lick some, we just tell her enough, and she quits). Well about 2 minutes later she was doing it again, and I as told her enough, something red caught my eye. Somehow the poor girl got a triangluar shaped tear in her skin on her front leg!!! I can only imagine it was from the way she bounces under the fence when she is chasing the neighbor dog.
I called our old vet (They were open til 6, our new vet closes at 5) and asked to bring her over. They were concerned that she would need to go under for stitches and wanted me to call the ER clinic, but I asked that they please look first and see if that was neccesary (I really don't like the ER). So they asid bring her over, and thankfully it wasn't very deep. They were able to give her a shot of Lidocaine and staple it closed. So, as I said before, she is on the pills now, and goes back tomorrow morning to make sure it is healing cleanly (becuase of the triangular shape).
When we got home, I sat Spot down and explained to him, he needs to be very carefully...he DOESN'T have to make it 3!!!
I took pictures of Cincy's pretty purple bandage, I'll post when I get home from work!