Re: Lucky successfully disintacted


"diddy" <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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in thread news:46a75f9b$0$25603$ecde5a14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: "Paul E.
Schoen" <pstech@xxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:


This Sunday, Helene and I may take Lucky to visit someone who has a
large house and lots of land and may be willing to take Lucky as a
rescue.

Paul... Large house and lots of land should not be as important a
criteria as a FENCE.


Sorry if I'm so much more optimistic
than you are. I think positive visualization and "good vibes" can work
much better than worrying about everything that can go wrong, and
taking every preventative precaution possible.

Paul, you are thinking like a human and these are DOGS

Dogs tend to be very stoic. In their natural order, a weak dog weakens
the entire pack. So a dog showing weakness is generally destroyed by the
pack. I don't know if you recall Tuck's chicken bone incident, but Tuck
went an entire 5 days with massive septic peritonitis and intestinal
death and NEVER showed a symptom. He was not ready to call it a day yet
as long as things were functioning. Had we not intervened, he would have
been beyond recovery (he was already there) before he showed his
weakness.

Just because external stitches aren't pulled, does not mean that internal
damage might not be occurring. Bad post op care results in many post
operation complications often weeks down the line. Lucky just had MAJOR
surgery and although she might not be acting like it you have to remember
Dogs by necessity endure major trauma and never show any signs, when just
a fraction of that would send us humans whimpering.


Thanks. I just spoke to my vet (not the one who did the surgery), and she
did not seem too concerned, but also remarked that dogs have a much higher
pain threshold. Lucky seems very bright and active, and she seems OK just
lying on the bed. She was starting to chew on my hand, and when I nixed
that, she started chewing on the sheets. I gave both dogs rawhide chewies,
and Muttley has probably devoured his, while Lucky seems happy to just turn
it into a limp gooey thing. I will try to keep both dogs as quiet as
possible. They are usually happy to just snooze, but everytime I move
around, they want to follow.

I just think it will create more stress and possibly trigger "fence
aggression" if I force her into the crate, and it will be difficult to keep
the dogs separated.

I will probably have her boarded, at least for the day, tomorrow when I
need to go to work.

New pix of the two dogs in bed:

www.smart.net/~pstech/Lucky/LuckyMutt2503.jpg
www.smart.net/~pstech/Lucky/LuckyMutt2504.jpg

Paul


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