So I am walking the dog this morning in my PJ’s and freezing. We have to walk all the way off the apartment property for Sable to pee because I am getting harassed by the landlords about the dog peeing on the lawn areas.(yeah I said wtf too, lets advertize we are dog friendly, then harass the dog owners who live here because we are old and have nothing better to do, this is a whole other blog in itself that I am entirely too pissed off to blog about or even confront the landlords over…yet. Hell hath no fury like Siren scorned…it is best I just calm down a month or three)
So we are walking long the fence line, it is a stockade type fence between the apartments and the business and she is sniffing under the fence. I don’t know why, I don’t question her methods, I just go with it. She tends to pull me everywhere, then she went the other way, and then circled around, then a line off to the left and then back to the right…I was thinking she was making a crop circle in the snow to signal the mother ship to come save her from me.
She circled around one last time and then lead me back to the door when I reach down to unhook her from the leash and her nose is bleeding like crazy. I run and grab some paper towel and hold it over her nose. She was not very happy about that so I am looking up the number for the vet and freaking out – just a little – I take the paper towel off and I felt so bad there was a flap of skin on hanging. I held her and she is looking at me like I am crazy. We get an appointment at the vet and she is excited to go for the ride until we get to the vet. Well $80 later we are back home. The vet said she was fine and said the best thing to do was just leave it alone. It still looks kind of bad today so I hope it heals up fast.All I can figure is her sniffing got out of control when she was sniffing under the fence.
Poor Sable!
My dog has done that to himself quite a few times, he learned over the years to just stay away from those spots in the fences, haha.
ReplyDeleteno worries, sometimes when we are out 'wabbit hunting' we tend to get veeewy veeewy focused and a little thing like a bloody nose is no deterrent.
ReplyDeleteI think I would have felt the same way you do.
ReplyDeleteThere are times when the cold can affect the nose as well, and cause it to become chapped.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, a dog's nose is wet, and getting it stuck into the freezing snow doesn't tend to do the skin much good..
She'll be fine, and you're a great owner for at least being concerned about it..
Me? I'd have clipped off the piece of skin, and given my dog a treat for being the hearty man-friend that I wanted her to be. (yeah, right)
That'll teach her to have to go and take a leak in the snow ;)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking she was making a crop circle in the snow
ReplyDeletelol!!
Poor puppy... I hope she's ok!
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