Plum’s been in the wars.

[Plum's mum]

She got home from the dog walker and as she settled down to sleep I noticed what looked like dried blood on her lower chest. Took a closer look and there was a nasty gash, flap of skin hanging down. I felt too squeamish to look too closely but I was pretty sure it would need stitches.

She was her normal self, wasn’t fussed with me trying to get a look but straight to vet and within 5 mins she was straight into surgery.

She’s home now, all stitched up in her medivest with potentially two weeks of restricted exercise .

Vet said it is a nasty wound and in an area where it’s “quite tight” so she has to be really careful not to pull/damage the stitches.

I’ve got her crate back out and she’s in it now, a bit of whining, but ate some tea.

I was so smug after she had a laparoscopic spay a year ago and I didn’t have to contend with the usual post recovery shenanigans!

I don’t drink or smoke and as I’m on a healthy eating plan my usual go-to, chocolate, is out of bounds. I need a vice!

 

[Xena Dog Princess]

Oh poor Plum, that sounds nasty. What did your dog walker have to say?

 

[jazzmynn]

That’s horrible. What on earth happened on her walk to cause this? Have you been in touch with the walker?

 

[Hollysdad]

Do you have any idea how it happened?

 

[Natalie]

That sounds really bad, even if she was very stoic afterwards she must have squealed when it happened. Hope she makes a quick recovery. Poor Plum x

 

[Plum's mum]

The dog walker didn’t know it had happened and to be honest, Plum showed no signs at all of being hurt, she was completely her normal self when she got home, bouncing in with a smile on her face and there was minimal bleeding. Ella checked her van after I spoke to her and there was no blood.

I think she was probably playing with her doggy chum Lionel, and she pronged herself or caught herself on something.

I don’t feel cross with the dog walker.

 

[Natalie]

when I wrote 'that sounds really bad ' I meant the wound not your dog walker, I didn't mean it to sound like I thought it was their fault, sorry @Plum's mum

 

[Plum's mum]

I didn’t take it like that @Natalie! I was responding to a previous post asking what the dog walker said .

 

[Granca]

Poor Plum. How lucky that you noticed.

Chocolate is definitely the answer. Surely a healthy eating plan can include just a bit...

 

[SwampDonkey]

Hope she's ok and keeps the stitches in XXX

 

[edzbird]

Oh Plum! Hope she can stay relatively calm for a speedy recovery x

 

[Xena Dog Princess]

Yes it sounds like she got caught on something sharp. I'm always horrified by some of the things I see on walk - random bits of concrete with rebar sticking out, random bits of barbed wire. Plum's a very stoic wee lass!

 

[HAH]

Poor Plum, and poor you - that sounds surprising and nasty, but she’s clearly a tough cookie so hopefully can get through it without disrupting the healing process.
Hope you find an acceptable vice! xx

 

[Ashley]

Poor Plum! Does she have to go on antibiotics in case of infection as well?

 

[jazzmynn]

I didn’t mean anything derogatory by my question either. It was more information seeking to question him/her, not in an accusatory way at all.

 

[Selina27]

Oh dear Plum! Sorry you've had to go to the vets and be stitched up, hope it heals well.

Sounds like the sort of thing she could have done just running around in woods or similar, sort of a puncture wound from a sharp stick or similar.

 

[Plum's mum]

I didn’t mean anything derogatory by my question either. It was more information seeking to question him/her, not in an accusatory way at all.

No I know you didn’t, don’t worry

 

[Plum's mum]

Poor Plum! Does she have to go on antibiotics in case of infection as well?

Yes, two weeks of antibiotics!

 

[Hollysdad]

Poor Plum. How lucky that you noticed.

Chocolate is definitely the answer. Surely a healthy eating plan can include just a bit...

Chocolate comes from beans, one of the'five a day'.

 

[Naya]

Poor girl. She’s certainly in the wars! Hope she heals quickly x