Straydog UPDATE posted THURSDAY 10/30/20-03 at ~9:00 p.m. CT
Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog
Log
THURSDAY OCTOBER
30 2003
Russell comes home, and
our Straydog hospital is overflowing!
Russell's
infection (after his neuter surgery) is getting better after having
to go back to the clinic Tuesday, a week after the surgery. They
sent Russell home today.
So
now we have the following dogs in our hospital: (1) Foxy with
a just barely open wound that is still draining a little; (2)
Henry, the vet bill for whom just arrived and is $903.17, who
still has an opening into the infection in his jaw, which is still
draining; (3) Julie, the diabetic dog, who stays inside a hospital
kennel now (except for her many outings to the park every day);
(4) Alice, who's inside temporarily as there was a lot of gunfire
this afternoon (the sound of which was) coming from the direction
of our neighbor across the road; and (5) Laura is in an inside
kennel temporarily for the same reason as Alice.
There
was no inside "hospital" kennel for Russell to stay
in, and since his wound is more open than Foxy's, Foxy went back
out to her outside kennel, and Russell will spend the night in
the hospital.
Randy
Hopkins (our overnight man) is going to have his hands full tonight!
Back home at Straydog
Russell jumps out of his crate in the van before Juany can get
the leash on him,
but Michael is ready to grab him.
Mike puts Russell
in Foxy's recently vacated hospital kennel.
Alice is in her
usual hospital kennel, which she only uses when there's a lot
of gunfire or thunder.
Julie enjoys her
"spacious," kitchen, hospital kennel.
Henry loves his new life
here, tho he spends most of his time in his hospital kennel
"Thanks
for saving me," says Henry, "even though I wasn't the
right dog, the one Juany, Tina and Tamara had come into my neighborhood
to try to rescue. I'd been abandoned by my guardian's family after
my guardian had died. (Please click here to see the Thursday,
October 16 story of my rescue.) I was just wandering around the streets
near my former and now vacant home, the pain in my infected jaw
really killing me, when Juany, Tina and Tamara saw me, and they
immediately thought I was the other dog they'd come to try to
rescue. So they rescued me and didn't find out till they got me
back to their truck and talked with the neighbors that I was the
wrong dog! Juany called Bill and asked what they should do, and
Bill said to bring me to Straydog. Now my jaw infection is almost
all better, and I'm very sorry my vet clinic bill came to $903.17.
If there's any way I could help out around here to help pay for
it, I'd try to do whatever it might be. They're calling me Henry
now, and Bill calls me Henry Higgins."