Foster Mom Peggy's Saga
31 July
What a whirlwind it has been! I have been to the vet's office three times in two days. It started out Saturday, 31 July, taking my Rusty & CRUSA foster Bella Rose to get their last sulfur/lime baths (which, let me tell you, are not pleasant smelling when I get them back, if you know what I mean), for the skin allergy they developed due to the hot weather. Got them dropped off around 8:30 a.m. and then went to the grocery store, and while I was there got a call from BJ.
Oh LORDY, something must be amiss!!! She knows better than to call me that early on a Sat. morning!!!! She said that there was a little Cairn at Metro Animal Services, where I had just been by on the way to the vet. She asked me if I could go by and take a look at this little feller.
I went home, put my refrigerated items away, got back in the van and went back over to Metro to see about this little guy. When I got there they said he was a Cairn mix. I said I needed to see him and that is when they informed me he was in the medical part of the shelter. I asked why he was in medical, and they said his tail was injured by one of the other dogs in the kennel.
They said he was probably not adoptable because he was trying to bite everyone who handled him. I told them I would bite everyone, too, if the tip of my tail was bitten off.
Well, after they took me back to see him, I looked at them and said, "He is not a mix." They had his tail all bandaged up so I couldn't see the wound and didn't realize that the tip was actually bitten off.
I told them I was taking him, so they got him UTD on all vaccines, microchipped, HW tested; away I went with him, right back to the vet's office to get him evaluated by my vets.
They cleaned him up and took off the bandage, which btw, had duct tape on it . . . stupid people.
The vet told me if I hadn't brought him in, it would have actually rotted under that bandage, and then he really would have been in trouble. That Dog I have enough common sense to know that a wound needs air to breathe to heal. BJ says AMEN!
When I went back to get him, Rusty & Bella from the vet later that afternoon and saw his tail, I just about croaked. It looked absolutely awful. When BJ saw it all, she could say was, "It hurts me"; I told her what do think it is doing to him!!!!
They told me then that if it didn't heal up in two weeks, it would have to be amputated. Well, after two days with bleeding and pain, I knew he could not wait two weeks, so back to the vet on Monday and the decision was made to amputate to where there was healthy skin and bone.
We now have a Bobtailed Cairn who is sweet as can be and wants nothing but love.
The End for now. . . .
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