So glad Poppy is back with you. She really has been through it this year. Let's hope things improve for her soon X Harley hated the bandaged paw when she cut hers a few months ago - she shut down for 2 days before we worked out why she was like it. I brought some boots for her get she wore outside of the house and they really helped.
Gosh, poor Poppy! So sorry this happened, and on vacation no less. Really hoping all goes well, cut paws are no fun to deal with. Hope she sails through with no difficulties or seizures.
Ah Karen I did know from Facebook but just catching up on here,I'm so sorry,can empathise even more at the moment being here in the UK with Dex ,it's just rotten luck for you and stressful too ,I hope she's comfortable and settled and you all had a decent night x
Thanks all she slept fine (though I was awake at every sound she made) and she seems chirpier this morning. We went for a little toddle down the lane, but she is tired now and the paw obviously hurts her
Glad she is with you in the cottage so you yourself can take care of her! It is always a fright when somethings happen to them and has to be taken care of by the vet and leave them there! Hope you can get some extra rest today for sleep deprivation.....
Saw the vet again today; the wound looks clean and no swelling. Poor little thing has four staples in her pad, she really did cut it quite badly. Anyway, a new bandage has been put on. Pops is being very good and patient, and leaves the bandage alone as long as we are with her, but she gets very stressed if we leave her at all, whines and cries, so one of us is staying with her all the time (OH is off fishing this afternoon, so Pops and I are home alone). She seems chirpy enough, and we go for little walks, using the Pawz boots that were recommended to me by Barbara - cannot thank you enough, they are a life saver! Anyhow, here she is, sporting her bright blue bandage: Do hope this is the final portion of her bad luck for the year!
Oh Karen only just seen this about poor Poppy. I am so sorry for you all, what a time to do it on holiday. I hope she is soon better. Hugs x
Reminds me that a couple of years ago we were on holiday in the south of Germany in Bavaria, at the Koenigsee. We saw a young family, with a beautiful black labrador - he caught his claw in a metal grid and ripped it out, blood all over the place. We helped them stem the bleeding, and I remember thinking - oh dear, that's not great at the start of a holiday... Now I know how they must have felt! That said, it's not too bad. The weather is at least dry, and we can have the door of the cottage open so Pops can trot out into the garden and watch the sheep whenever she wants. We take her for little walks in the fields or into the farmyard, and I play gentle games of 'search for the mini dummy' in long grass with her. And we are just going to jump into the car and drive down the road to a Victorian walled garden and cafe for lunch (dogs allowed!), and a visit to a medieval castle ruin afterwards - after which I am sure she will be exhausted. Next visit to the vet tomorrow morning, fingers crossed the healing is still progressing well.
Hope she gets a good healing progress report tomorrow ,you sounds like you are all managing it really well. I love that you say so relaxed she can potter in and out to look at the sheep....OMG the most common said phrase in our life at the Moment is 'don't let the dog out!' Our fellow is on the longest ever bungee cord you ever did see when we do garden time X
That's just because he's not used to it though, Angela. By the end of your time in the UK he'll be chilled about all the new sights and sounds. Proud to be able to say Pops is pretty chilled about sheep. If they stand and stare at her she gets a bit woofy, and I wouldn't leave her unattended in a field of sheep and lambs.. but before she cut her pad OH walked her through the fields with the sheep, off lead, and there was no problem at all. Now cows I avoid like the plague.. Not that Pops has any interest in them; but they have far too much interest in her! Honestly I would take mile-long detours to avoid a field with cows, when I have a dog with me.
Yes ,the cows in the next field come right over when we walk past them...Dexter didn't like being stared at all by them at first but he can sit nicely now while they all have a stare and a chew....if I get a loose lead through a sheep field by the end of summer I'll be doing the moonwalk ....through the the field ,alongside my dog!
