Meet Connie, one of my two Dobermans. Connie and her brother Buddy are my 21 month old pups . They are a lively pair.Friday had already been a long day. My daughter and I had just returned home from a day in town . It takes an hour to drive to town from our home in the desert and an hour to get back home .
Friday's trip to town had included a visit to the doctor which had taken up much of the day so both my daughter and I were happy to finally get home and I was looking forward to just taking it easy for what little was left of the day.
But as it turned out, relaxing was not an option. We were soon on the road to town again !
My two Doberman pups and our other little dog were happy to have us home and they were running around and being very frisky. Then I noticed a tuft of hair standing up on Connie's back . It was a fresh tear in her skin...a V shaped tear on her back . The legs of the V were about three inches long. It was nearly 4PM and every Vetinary office we called were closing at 5 PM.
There is an excellent Emergency Animal Clinic in town and they are open all night. Wouldn't you know, the Clinic had moved to a new location since we had last used their services so that entailed some driving about to locate them. Their new location is so new it doesn't even have the name on the building , so that really made it hard to find!
But we did find them and Dr. Edwards stitched up the tear in Connie's back. Connie and her brother Buddy, have a condition known as Von Willibrand's disease. What that means is that their blood does not coagulate as it should and should they sustain an injury and start bleeding it could be fatal to them. Fortunately, the tear in Connie's skin was not bleeding.
Connie spent the night in the hospital and she is home now and is wearing a hood to keep her from pulling the stitches out. She is very unhappy having to wear the hood . The white item you can see in the photo is one of the drain tubes which the doctor placed in the tear. I don't know what she caught her skin on to cause the damage but she is going to be Ok and I'm happy about that. My budget took a big hit with the emergency repair service but she is worth it!
Till next time .
Marion Springer
1 comment:
OWIE!!!..Poor dobie dog, sorry to hear about the blood disorder, couple of the donies permamnently with the rescue person I got velcro dog(my red one year old rescue dobie) at had the same condition. And We also have maggie the long coated dobie(recessive gene) adopted from the berkeley shelter(yes the is a full blooded doberman pup) She is a close friend of mines pup. pictures? http://picasaweb.google.com/paculino/Puppy?pli=1&gsessionid=tQkA-rYSjfOu5Att-iUAOQ#
Seems all the people I really like tend to like atlas shrugged and have or like dobies. Wonder whats up with that?
kelly
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