Yesterday we had out Christmas BBQ at the local dog-training club where we train and I teach. Foxy went for a run with a couple of other dogs and when I called him back I noticed that he was favouring one leg (his right). So I checked his left leg to see if there was anything there and I couldn’t find anything, but I checked him again about 5mins later and found a rather large lump. I didn’t have a clue what it was, since Foxy is my first dog and he’s never had a crass seed or anything like that before, but the first thing that I thought or was a tumour. I got a couple of the agility people that I train with to have a look at it and they said it was most likely to be a grass seed. I was planning to take him to the vet this morning, but he got pretty bad during the day yesterday. He didn’t want to walk anywhere with me, and he was sleeping on the ground where there was food and didn’t worry about it. I got really concerned and one of the people took me to try and find a vet (most of the vets were closed because it was Sunday), and after driving for about an hour we found one that was opened. We took him in and the vet said that his temperature was pretty high (41*C), so he gave him an injection and some antibiotics and said to take him to the vet that we usually go to, to have the grass seed taken out. So I took him to the vet this morning at about 9:30am and I didn’t pick him up till 4:30pm. He has a pretty big wound (about 10-12cm long) and his left leg is all shaved. He seems pretty happy considering the situation. We have to wait 2 weeks till the stitches come out and he can’t go for walk or do any kind of exercise till then.
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I hope he does well recouperating.
Huney, Bon & Simba-missed so very much
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