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Serious warning here people....
Last night we had to take our 7 month old Boxer puppy to the emegency vets for surgery...
He had stolen a bamboo cane when I was planting out my raspberries, and when I turned round to tell him to drop it, he ran off with it, and an end lodged into the ground. You can guess the rest
Murphy punctured a hole in his soft palate, and required surgery at 10pm last night. We were very lucky. The hole is tiny although very painful with lots of bruising.
Murphy is back home feeling very sorry for himself, with painkillers and antibiotics and needs to be on soft food for several weeks, plus numerous follow-up vet vists.
Not to mention that we've been hit with a bill of £390 for last nights surgery.
I am normally very careful, and the dogs generally aren't allowed sticks, for this reason alone. They're also not allowed in the veg patch without supervision (it's fenced and gated), but were in yesterday as Mr OWG was redoing some fencing elsewhere.
It never occured to me that a 3ft bamboo cane would be that attractive to the dogs!
Please make sure that in your garden/allotment/veg patch/the park that your dogs don't play with sticks or stakes of any sort!!
*Public service announcment ends!*
Last night we had to take our 7 month old Boxer puppy to the emegency vets for surgery...
He had stolen a bamboo cane when I was planting out my raspberries, and when I turned round to tell him to drop it, he ran off with it, and an end lodged into the ground. You can guess the rest
Murphy punctured a hole in his soft palate, and required surgery at 10pm last night. We were very lucky. The hole is tiny although very painful with lots of bruising.
Murphy is back home feeling very sorry for himself, with painkillers and antibiotics and needs to be on soft food for several weeks, plus numerous follow-up vet vists.
Not to mention that we've been hit with a bill of £390 for last nights surgery.
I am normally very careful, and the dogs generally aren't allowed sticks, for this reason alone. They're also not allowed in the veg patch without supervision (it's fenced and gated), but were in yesterday as Mr OWG was redoing some fencing elsewhere.
It never occured to me that a 3ft bamboo cane would be that attractive to the dogs!
Please make sure that in your garden/allotment/veg patch/the park that your dogs don't play with sticks or stakes of any sort!!
*Public service announcment ends!*
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