Emergency, no Vet, what should we do?
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I would definitely have asked the kids address and name too, I don't care how old they are, it's irresponsible to bring an agressive dog to a dog park...
Just to play devil's advocate for a sec: What if the owner didn't know his dog was aggressive? What if the dog had never displayed this type of behavior before and this was a one time incident triggered by a same-size unspayed female? Who knows, maybe Kaya is getting near to her heat and the mastiff could smell it? I've seen dogs that would have been perfectly ok, if the dog they were approaching hadn't gone into submission mode. Something about the submissive behavior just triggers an unexpected response in some dogs.
I hope she did Ok last night and does well at the vet. Please give us an update. Kind of a side note but I thought that I would share. My husband thinks it's silly but it works really well. I have a first aid kit in the car and the house for the dogs. One of the items might be a bit odd but works well. I keep a few pads in it... Yes Feminine pads and for the chis I keep a few linners. If they get a cut or a wound you can use them to put on top and apply pressure or even put it over the wound and wrap it in place.
Mira just had her nails trimmed at the vet. She squirms so bad. Even w/ 3 of us she pushed out her leg and got her nail cut almost completely off and her pad on the next toe got cut. Well they used the glue but it came open and started to bleed again. I used the quick stop and then made a mini cast w/ the liner. Just for that night (it was raining and evertime it got wet it would bleed). It worked so well. I read it somewhere a long time ago but this was the 1st time I had to use it and it worked great. My vets said that that was a great idea, especially for major cuts.
Thought I would pass it along.
Mira just had her nails trimmed at the vet. She squirms so bad. Even w/ 3 of us she pushed out her leg and got her nail cut almost completely off and her pad on the next toe got cut. Well they used the glue but it came open and started to bleed again. I used the quick stop and then made a mini cast w/ the liner. Just for that night (it was raining and evertime it got wet it would bleed). It worked so well. I read it somewhere a long time ago but this was the 1st time I had to use it and it worked great. My vets said that that was a great idea, especially for major cuts.
Thought I would pass it along.
I got extra early today to bring Kaya to the Vets as soon as they opened. We were able to pick her up two hours ago. She has had two drains put in to the stomach wound, and the leg wound had to be opened more to be able to stitch it together better. They gave her a shot for the pain and sent home rimadyl as well. We are so grateful to them, they did a great job on Kaya. She is sleeping peacefully now.
You can't be responsible for something you didn't know was a possibility. Like I said, it's possible that dog had never displayed this type of behavior before. He could have kept the dog on leash, but if we're going to go that route, then everyone should keep their dogs leashed at all times. No more off-leash parks.
If the guy is a decent person at all, he'll pay for the vet bills and feel really bad about all this. Now he knows that his mastiff may not be as steady as he thought it was and luckily the outcome wasn't worse than it was.
If the guy is a decent person at all, he'll pay for the vet bills and feel really bad about all this. Now he knows that his mastiff may not be as steady as he thought it was and luckily the outcome wasn't worse than it was.
I honestly don't know, it looked like a regular Mastiff but it wasnt fawn it was brown. It was also still a puppy at about 7 or 8 months old I guess? Around 100lbs though. Kaya has an E-collar on, poor thing looks pathetic. I tried to take it off but within thirty seconds she had started messing with her drains so I put it right back on. My poor sweety. She gets the drains taken out Thursday thank god, I don't know how much more blood dripping on my floors constantly I can take.
Glad to hear things are looking up now, its a shock when something like this happens, got to admit, I have not heard of a dog attacking a bitch just because she is in heat? obviously I have hear of them being amorous but not vicious, there has got to be an other reason than this for the attack surely? and I agree, it dosnt matter if the owner was unaware that the dog was going to attack, they are responsible for their dog and any incidents involving that dog, this is all part of dog ownership, they should be responsible for the vets bill.
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