Today I noticed a wet spot on Scout's hind quarter. I looked to see what he was licking and he had a huge gash. I mean, it was about 4" long and wide open. It wasn't bleeding but he had obviously been licking it.
I looked around the back yard to see what he had gotten hung up on but couldn't find anything. I started thinking about where it could have happened and then it came to me.
Thursday night I met some friends at Loafing Leprechaun by the Gwinnett Arena. Scout was in the Jeep and I went out to check on him after a few drinks. I chunked his frisbee down a big hill and he did his thing. I noticed he didn't come back up right away and saw that he was trying to get back across a silt fence. He must have leaped it on his way down. I whistled for him and called him. I hated doing it because I don't want him to know he can leap fences. Well, he finally picked a spot and crawled over it. He acted like nothing was wrong and fetched several more times. I never threw it down the hill again though.
When I finally noticed it today, I called the vet. It was after hours so I got stuck with a big ole' bill, but they got him fixed up. He got six stitches and some good drugs. They even gave him one of those cool collars, poor guy. Between being doped up from going under and the collar, he's not getting around too well. He can't figure the collar out so he just stops. He only has to wear it for a couple of days.
The vet did an excellent job putting him back together. She cut back the dead tissue and put all of the stitches on the inside. She agreed that the wound was a couple of days old. If I had waited until Monday, they would have had to drain it and cut more tissue away.
Anyway, here are some pics, $500 later.
Topic: Scout got trail damage. (Read 881 times)
