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OUCH!!! My sisters dog ripped his skin right off his back (GRUESOME)

We had to leave him at the vet overnight. This just happened this evening. Took about 45 mins to find a vet on call on Sunday/Mothers Day. He's an accident prone dog, God love him. He ripped his shoulder in the same fashion last year. And tore his knee pretty good the year before that.

When he did this at first I had no idea he'd hurt himself. He never cried or whimpered... all I saw was him run under the fence, then he started snapping towards the back of himself, as if something was attacking him. But he never once let on as if he was injured in any way. We just had to keep him from licking it on our way to the vet.

Estimated bill : $725 bucks :(
 
DaSchmarotzer said:
Worst part is when the lady grabs something in the flesh wound and realizes that it's still attached.
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Yeah that was my sister. She lifted the flap of skin up and we both saw some hair in the muscle. So she went to fetch it out and realized it was still attached to some flesh.

It makes you think about how far along we've come with medicine. Back in the day a dog shows up at your door with a wound like that and all you could do was take him out and shoot him. Because a gapping wound like that (left untreated) would slowly get infected and kill an animal a cruel death.

Now all we have to do is cough up a few days salary, and they're good as new. :)
 
My brother is actually graduating from vet school in a week from now. I wonder what he's seen during his clinics at the school's vet hospital. My family's dog came down with a serious illness and had to be hospitalized for about 2 weeks at the local animal shelter. My brother was so pissed off that they couldn't figure out what was wrong during those two weeks. Basically all they were some tests and give him some medicine to see if it would help him. Total cost was a couple thousand.
 
Vihzel said:
My brother is actually graduating from vet school in a week from now. I wonder what he's seen during his clinics at the school's vet hospital. My family's dog came down with a serious illness and had to be hospitalized for about 2 weeks at the local animal shelter. My brother was so pissed off that they couldn't figure out what was wrong during those two weeks. Basically all they were some tests and give him some medicine to see if it would help him. Total cost was a couple thousand.
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What school? Just finished my third year at ISU. :)
 
dan330 said:
damn.. what a bitch of a day that dog had!


that fence should be ... fixed.
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Indeed! When we were pulling out of the drive on our way to the vet my sister told mom that she was going to remove that piece of fence tomorrow.

It isn't the same fence Dane hurt himself on the other two times btw. This was a piece of metal fencing that was just recently put up to patch a couple of wooded boards the horses had knocked down in the riding ring.
 
Great money in Vetinary
Never realised it was so hard to get into or was so difficult

I guess the issue us that an animal can't tell you what's wrong
 
And here he is, the man of the hour... Dane all stitched up and bumming out in his tee-shirt as he rests up to play another day!

YouTube - Dane dog all stitched up and bumming around in his tee-shirt...




.... that crazy dog will never realize how lucky he is to have found my sister. Sad but true, a lot of people wouldn't spend $750 bucks on their dog to stitch him back up like that. Most would have half-assed the job themselves, and probably cost the dog it's life in the long run... or would have just put it 'out of its misery' when the incident first happened because there obviously wasn't anything they could do (how I could see a lot of people justifying putting a dog down after doing something like that to itself rather than cough up close to a thousand bucks to fix the pet properly).

Yes Dane you're an expensive pet. But for my dear sister, it's just the burden you take on when you make the choice to take a pet in and make them part of the family.

:D
 
stublake13 said:
What were all the other previous wounds she described couldn't quite make em out...?
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He tore his shoulder skin off on that side in very similar fashion last year crawling under a different fence. And tore his knee up the year before that. Plus he got a little too aggressive while playing with our other dog Sheba a couple of years ago and ripped a big hole in Sheba's neck.

Dane has certainly cost my sister his fair share of vet bills!
 
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