Victoria Fenwick, clinic manager of Prevent a Litter Veterinary Hospital, and Dr. Pasternak, owner of Helping Hands Veterinary clinic play with Pasternak’s rescue poodle, Chilly, after work.
Anyone care to come over and clean Hilde’s nasty litter box for me? I can pay you in PB&J tortillas! Please?
Never mind. I did it myself. Now the tortillas are all mine! muahahaha!
One of the assistants helping the vet place a bandage after a tail amputation.
The patient had what’s commonly called “happy tail,” where the dog wags the tail so often and so hard that it causes bloody wounds on the tail when it hits an object that’s not squishy human flesh. The condition is most often associated with pit bulls. Not sure why, but my educated guess would be extremely happy dogs + powerful whippy tails + high pain tolerance = perfect conditions for it to happen :[ Usually it isn’t too big a deal to treat (it just looks like a murder scene since the dog will fling blood EVERYWHERE until you get a bandage on it, as it will continue to wag its battered tail). But this guy kept re-injuring it so often, even with the protective bandages, that it just wouldn’t heal, so their full-service vet recommended amputation. The surgery went well, and he’s back recovering at home. We’ll see his lovey butt again in about two weeks for suture removal ^_^
ETA: As soon as he recovered from surgery, he started furiously wagging his little nubbin tail so hard his butt was wiggling lol
Artist painter Japanese-born American Kinuko Y. Craft 1940
contemporary painter, illustrator and fantasy
Lexi keeping me company this morning while I’m stuck in bed with an FMS flare-up. He’s such a lovely heating pad, which really helps with the pain. Thanks little buddy! ^_^
Spent the evening hanging out with my little sis, Mom, baby nephew, and the critters, including the old lady beagle ^_^
The people of Mexico were lined up along the streets to see the Pope. This little guy
thought otherwise.
