Not OT: visit to a doctor and OT: QI injured

Good grief, Michelle -- how do you keep a dog from chewing??? How does he eat??? At any rate, Bisou already wants to return to "normal duty", so the hard part has started: keeping her down when she wants to be going full tilt.

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:58:41 -0500, Sandy wrote (in article ):

That is the hard part. I nearly lost my mind when Katie Mae broke her leg and we were told to keep her quiet and not let her jump. Try that with a cat who jumps everywhere. It didn't work.

Looking back, I think Katie Mae knew better than we did how she was healing. We couldn't keep her from chewing on her stitches, either. Turns out, she just had a sense when they were ready to come out. She went to the vet for a follow-up and yep, even though it was earlier than predicted, stitches were ready to come out.

If Bisou is moving around, she's probably feeling a lot better.

Maureen

Wow! It's truly amazing how animals just know what's what, isn't it?

Yes, she's moving around quite a bit now, Maureen -- I'm sure she's feeling better. :) I'm just trying to keep her from jumping onto her favorite chairs, and of course we're crating her overnight, though she's used to sleeping on the bed with us. Poor baby! But one of the best things we ever did was to teach her "hurry up" when she came to us. Now we can take her out on her leash and say the magic words, and she'll do what's necessary almost immediately -- unless she really doesn't have to, of course.

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:13:02 -0500, Sandy wrote (in article ):

That would help a lot! Good luck with keeping her quiet and off the chairs until her next appointment!

Maureen

KJ, at the time it made me sick. I heard him yelp horribly, and just new he'd probably need to be put to sleep. But when I went to look at him, he was up running around, all legs functioning perfectly. It took me a few minutes to determine exactly where he was injured. The injury sounds bad, but I was so relieved to find that it wasn't much worse.

Michelle in NV

That is so tough. I don't know how you'd keep a dog from running.

As for my dog, we confined him to the barn with absolutely nothing but straw--nothing to chew. (He was an outside dog.) I'd let him out for a run several times a day and keep a close eye that he didn't put anything in his mouth. It really was the pits, but his jaw healed up fine.

Best regards, Michelle