This past Saturday Tilly gave us an awful fright. We were busy all day working in the yard, coming to and from the garden nursery for mulch and loam. Tilly has a slight separation anxiety when I leave but I didn’t realize the extent of it till this past weekend. On one of our trips back from the nursery I came in the house to check on the dogs, like I always do, and as soon as I called them Tilly started yelling in the most distressed way. I searched for her and found her lying on the ground in the dinning room next to the cast iron radiator, the old fashioned kind of radiators.
Here’s the picture of it.
She apparently tried to jump to the top of the radiator in order to see out the window but fell in the process and had one of her front legs wedged in between the spokes/grid of the radiator. I don’t know how long she was stuck that way but we were gone for a good hour, poor baby. She had defecated and urinated from fright and was covered in urine. I had to lift her whole body up carefully in order to un-wedge her paw, it was really stuck in there tightly. I call the vets office and left a message with the answering service for the vet to call me ASAP (it was after-hours). She wasn’t baring any weight on her leg and I thought it was broken. By the time the vet called me back she started putting a bit of weight on it so the vet thought she’d be ok till Monday and to give her 1/4 tablet of baby aspirin twice a day and keep her crated. By Sunday she was walking fine and seems ok, I wish I could say the same about me. After finding her that way I was shaken up the entire weekend and I still am.
I learnt a very good lesson out of this, from now on when I leave the house I block access to the radiator and if I’m gone for longer then 1 hour she goes in her crate.
And here I thought our house was doggie safe...sheesh.
Here’s the picture of it.
She apparently tried to jump to the top of the radiator in order to see out the window but fell in the process and had one of her front legs wedged in between the spokes/grid of the radiator. I don’t know how long she was stuck that way but we were gone for a good hour, poor baby. She had defecated and urinated from fright and was covered in urine. I had to lift her whole body up carefully in order to un-wedge her paw, it was really stuck in there tightly. I call the vets office and left a message with the answering service for the vet to call me ASAP (it was after-hours). She wasn’t baring any weight on her leg and I thought it was broken. By the time the vet called me back she started putting a bit of weight on it so the vet thought she’d be ok till Monday and to give her 1/4 tablet of baby aspirin twice a day and keep her crated. By Sunday she was walking fine and seems ok, I wish I could say the same about me. After finding her that way I was shaken up the entire weekend and I still am.
I learnt a very good lesson out of this, from now on when I leave the house I block access to the radiator and if I’m gone for longer then 1 hour she goes in her crate.
And here I thought our house was doggie safe...sheesh.
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