Yesterday was our first near trauma with Ayla. Somehow she managed to bust open her nose and it was bleeding rather well for a while…and not really slowing so we thought we might have to go find an emergency vet (we were at the farm and our vet is about an hour from here). But maybe I should start from the beginning…
Friday night we had an insurance agent here who was trying to help us solve our problem of being “chronically under-insured” as my husband likes to call it. As the guy was leaving, I was outside playing with Ayla and she was chasing a little soccer ball all over the courtyard. Apparently she wasn’t really paying much attention to where she was going because she reached the end of the driveway and it appeared that she plowed right into a steel pole that is there (for what reason we have yet to determine but a few friends have almost castrated themselves on it already as well). She didn’t seem phased at all and didn’t even slow down from playing so both of us thought that perhaps since we were far away we hadn’t really seen her that well and maybe she didn’t run into the pole after all.
So the insurance guy left and we took Ayla for her LONG over due walk so she would stop driving us crazy. When we got back, hubby looked down at her and noticed her mouth was bloody. So we started checking her mouth for something she could have cut herself on (no telling while we were out for a walk) and looking at her face in general. That’s when we started thinking about her plowing into the pole and we both determined that must have been the cause of it. So we started cleaning her up and the bleeding wasn’t really slowing but we didn’t want to over react (hard for hubby to achieve) so we decided we would eat dinner first and then, if it was still bleeding badly, we’d see about taking her to a vet.
Thankfully the bleeding mostly stopped then because Ayla was laying down and eating her ox tail (a sure sign that there was nothing wrong with her and she wasn’t in pain)…but we let her out in the courtyard to go do her business and she came in bloody again. Go figure. So what is the moral of the story? If you’re trying to make your dog relax and prevent bleeding, don’t let them go outside unattended…duh.
Thankfully this morning everything seems to have had time to close up and start healing…and hopefully she won’t get all rambunctious and open the thing up again later today. With her there really is no telling and she always seems so over excited when we’re at the farm that it might be hard indeed.
