February 7, 2007
From the desk of Jane Galt:And has thou slain the jabberwock?
Too soon to declare a frabjous day, but the dog is out of surgery to remove his tumour, and the surgeon declares it went as well as it possibly could have. They took off his dew claw to give them enough skin to close the wound, but I doubt he'll miss it. Now to deal with a dog-with-conehead, and wait a week for the pathology report to tell me just how cancerous the thing is.
Posted by Jane Galt at February 7, 2007 8:00 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksI know you're not religous, but I said a little prayer for your dog today. Just in case it might help.
Well,
Try to take things in tiny doses. Everything breaks down into tiny little things you have to do next, like cone-head dog care. Have you ever tried to eat with a funnel around your head? Ever think about the everyday itches and scratches that should be done but can't because of the tyranny of the plastic? Can you imagine how much more often you would be startled if your peripheral vision were reduced that much?
Be nice to cone-heads. Wear a bell so you won't startle the dog. Scratch those itches for your poor invalid. And, if you have time, build a contraption allegedly designed to maximize the dog/food/cone spatial relationship.
God is love.
What is love?
No matter the outcome, I believe your dog will know better than many of us ever do.
Because we complicate it.
Might want to get some of that blue soap the vets use to be able to clean the wound after taking your conehead dog out for walkies. BTW the cone can act as a directional sound detector, leading the dog wearing it to hear stuff at odd angles. Be sure to check the fastenings on it often, since they can get messed up fairly easily if the dog moves around fast. Glad to read things are looking up.
The poor chap won't be at all pleased about the cone, but it's for his own good, of course. Best wishes to you and your furry understudy as always!
Caloo, callay. I burble with joy! Best wishes to your four footed friend, and to you as well.
What sort of hound you got? Can we have a photo?
I too don't pray to something I'm fairly sure doesn't exist.
"Hey You Up There! THANKS and please keep the canine safe."
OK, so I'm inconsistent too.
Very happy for you and Finnigan. Don't worry too much about the cone. Just follow the advice of the previous comments.
We had a cat once who had an unfortunate encounter with a car. He had to wear a cone for a while and never recovered use of his leg. Animals are amazingly adaptable and optimistic. Our cat hated the cone but lived with it. In time he was able to run as fast on 3 legs as our two other 4-legged cats. My take away has always been delight at the resilience and persistence of animals, as well as their optimism and honest appreciation of what is really important. Sometimes this spirit leads to foolish things like thinking you can outrun a speeding automobile, but on the whole it is healthier than wallowing in self-pity.
Pet owners: never, ever allow your pet to roam free outside. Keep cats indoors always. Let dogs outside only on a leash or in a fenced area.
"Wear a bell so you won't startle the dog." Dogs have incredible hearing. I have repeatedly seen cases where a dog knows that a particular person is coming while they are still a half mile or more away, because the dog can pick the sound of their car out of hundreds of others. If it's possible to tiptoe on plush carpet so lightly that your dog won't hear you in the same room, he's got a hearing problem. Now, the cone might cause startlement because it distorts the direction of sounds, and so you appeared from an unexpected direction, but I doubt a bell would help that.
I am so glad to hear about Finnegan, if he needs dog treats or love Isabel and Harper are available.
I've used a bell before and it makes a difference, though I've never used it with such a big dog. Help him turn corners and go through doors, getting the Elizabethan collar stuck on edges can be very frightening.
Keep us posted!
Glad to hear PhaseI is over.
Speedy recovery to Finnigan and all the best wishes to you, M.
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Is this how the vet broke it to you: "I think, I think that, uh, there's no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we're, we've got. We have a cancer--within, close [on the canine], that's growing. It's growing daily. It's compounding, it grows geometrically now because it compounds itself."
Pet owners: never, ever allow your pet to roam free outside.
Our cat would have chewed her way through the solid-core door had we actually tried that.
Jane, it sure would be nice to get a cone-head pic...
Anony-mouse, I'm sure Jim just means city-folk when talks about never letting pets roam free outdoors.
I don't want to start any too-hopeful rumours;
But I hope that your dog's got a non-cancerous tumour.
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