(www.meowbarkblog.com) — Ty wasn’t even home for 12 hours before we had to rush him to the emergency vet.
This dog is terrified of baby gates, so the first night he was home, we put him in my office with his e-collar on and put up a baby gate and figured he’d be just fine while we went to dinner. We locked the other dogs in the mudroom with the dog door and headed out.
When we got home, Ty met us at the door. Yeah, he jumped over the baby gate out of the office. For the first time in his life. The same day he came home from the animal hospital from major surgery. And apparently he didn’t quite clear it, because it was dangling from the door frame.
He was just as happy as could be, but we were totally freaked. We rushed him to the all-night emergency vet, convinced he had ripped open his internal sutures, where they said he was just fine and sent us home. (That would be after Jesse and I waited in the exam room for an hour snipping at each other because we were so freaked about Ty.)
No more alone in the office when we left the house!
Then, two days later, Jesse took the e-collar off to get Ty his dinner, and about two nanoseconds later, Ty licked open his stiches and was gushing blood all over the floor. Twenty minutes of hard pressure did nothing to stop the bleeding, so we wrapped him with an Ace bandage and carried him out to the car. I basically laid on top of him for the 30-minute drive to the all-night vet’s office to keep him from jumping around in the back seat.
And then we got there and he had stopped bleeding. Awesome. The vet, a different one, cleaned him up and said he didn’t even need new stitches and sent us home.
Since then, he’s made a few other attempts to thwart the baby gate, but no more bleeding, thank goodness.
This dog will be the death of me yet.
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