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Becky loses half her ear!

Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 29 2004

Becky loses half her ear, and we're not sure how

     Caregiver/dog walker, Bobby, yells over the radio: "Becky's covered with blood. Somebody come quick!"

     The blood was coming from the outer edges of what was left of Becky's ear, which had been torn half off. There hadn't been the sound of a dog fight or any yelps, and she and her kennel mate, Bear II, weren't fighting now, so we're not sure what could have happened. These two kennel mates usually get along well, though they tussle a lot. We're leaning toward believing that she must have caught her ear on the protruding end of a fence wire and ripped it by pulling away from the fence, but we haven't been able to find the missing piece of her ear, which must have been about an inch wide.

     We finally got the bleeding stopped by putting flour on her ear and by squeezing the torn edge with paper towels. Then Juana bandaged the ear and taped it to the top of Becky's head. After that we put an E-collar on the dog, and left her in one of the hospital kennels, where she didn't behave very well because she doesn't get along with any of the other dogs who are in the hospital.

Juana puts flour on the bleeding ear while Tina holds Becky.

Becky with lots of flour on her ear.

Juana's squeezing Becky's ear with paper towels, trying to get the bleeding to stop.

Next "Dr. Juana" taped the bandages onto Becky's ear.

     While all the above was going on, I was trying to reach a vet who would be available to help us. Three different vets didn't answer.

     We finally got ahold of the Tyler Animal Emergency Clinic, and the vet said to bring the dog in, so Tina left at about 10:00 on the hour-long drive to Tyler. At 11:30 Tina called and said the vet had said we'd done a good job stopping the bleeding. The doctor dressed the wounded ear again and told us to use one of the antibiotics we have in supply here at Straydog and to keep the dog in one of our hospital kennels for at least a week. Tina paid the $107 bill and is now on her way back to Straydog.

No adoptions yesterday but a few possible adoptions for next week

     We took lots of photos and will be posting them this afternoon (if there are no more emergencies).

Five pages of photos from Saturday Adoption Day

 

Also we just had a very heavy rainstorm, which lasted about 15 minutes

     That was all the rain we got. Later in the afternoon the sun came out.