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Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

SATURDAY MAY 29 2004

10:30 A.M. UPDATE

Erin reports ...

Patch and Whiskers arrived at Straydog late yesterday afternoon

      Patch and Whiskers are both very sweet dogs. They rode well in the car, except when I called Angie to tell her how good Patch looked. Patch heard me talking and started whining pretty loud!

Juana with her son, Gordo, next to her holds Whiskers.
Gordo (who's not fat) is Juana's new part-time assistant for the summer.

Patch is ready to get out of the crate in the back of Erin's car. Now we know why his name is "Patch."

Patch

During his potty breaks we take Patch's E-collar off.

Whiskers enjoys his first outing in the park (the Big Play Yard)

More Photos

      Patch's surgery is to be thought of as if it were a "fractured leg," Dr. Arnold said. Patch has two pins holding bone and tissue together. The biggest challenge will be to keep him quiet. We have sedatives for Patch to help us with this, and we are keeping him in a quiet room in our hospital trailer except when we take him out to potty. When Patch first arrived we put him in a large hospital kennel, and he was so excited that he threw his little bed around and played with all his toys. After about fifteen minutes he calmed down though. Later Juana put him in a smaller kennel to restrict his movement even further. We can't take a chance on letting the rambunctious puppy dog undo what the surgeon has done, or we'll have to start all over again.

      Whiskers likes (and will fit right on top of) the little pillow in his kennel. Whiskers (who had been hit by a car) had a femoral head removal to repair the damage to his leg. Also, Dr. Cannon said that he had to remove some of the bone. Two weeks after the surgery we will have to begin therapy aggressively if Whiskers doesn't put weight on his leg.

      Patch is probably already putting too much weight on his repaired leg. We will be doing warm compresses on Patch's leg four or five times a day, but we don't need to do this for Whiskers.

      Both dogs have worms and have medicines for this along with their antibiotics and pain/inflammatory medicines. Thank goodness both dogs are heartworm-free. These two sweeties will make wonderful pets!

Adoption Day goes till three this afternoon at PetsMart in Plano

      Come on by and see the dogs making today's trip and visit with our crew of volunteers. ... And adopt a dog if you can make room for one.

      Adoption Day results to come in tomorrow's update.