Has your dog been injured?

[Warmsy]

My beloved lab fell out of the back of a truck going 25 mph and broke her femur. For years I never understood how it happened, until I was riding that same road on a motorcycle and hit imperceptible dip and bump and nearly lost control and almost dropped the bike.

 

[displacedtexan]

Redbone had some copperhead bites. She was embarrassed by the swelling when she got one to the muzzle but no lasting effect except she never messed with a copperhead again..

Our "free" pound pup rolled down the window of my 4runner and jumped out at 60mph. (Please don't ask the wife's question. No I didn't have the child locks on. We haven't had a child in the car in 20 years.) She wasn't so "free" after the surgery to repair her compound femur fracture. Guy behind me saw it occurring and stopped traffic long enough for me to get her back in the vehicle or she probably would have been flattened. Sometimes I regretted not taking surgery option 2 which was remove the leg. She was constantly running off.

The worst digger and runoff we've ever had lost a front leg and that didn't slow her down at all.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

My dog broke his leg running around. The leg got caught in something and he fell twisting the leg. It was pretty brutal but he made a full recovery and you would never be able to tell.

 

[Hoghead]

Hogs, hogs and more hogs.

 

[khunter]

Attacked by a mounain lion at home on our deck. Woulda died for sure if I had not been there to “attack”the lion within 3 seconds of it pinning and putting my dogs head in its mouth. My dog with the reporter that interviewed him.

 

[Haggin]

We do some pretty late fall (like November) cleanup type hunts for pheasants in SD at various lodges. Some birds hang up in the thick cattails. Most years its fine, but last year our lab got cut up pretty bad in them, including a couple deep scratched corneas. He's all drive and went all day with a cut up muzzle but needed about 4 weeks off after our hunt. Nut sure why the cattails were so sharp when they dried out, but they were.

 

[1911king]

Just this morning my yellow lab Hunter decided it was in his best interest to go introduce himself to a horse along the trail. He took off like a rocket ignoring all commands like a f-ing toddler. Just when worry set in he got to the bottom of the hill and it hit me the barbed wire fence and a kick from this mare ain’t going to be a good thing for my dog, he disappears into a overgrown V ditch. Gone. Rolled all the way to the bottom of that stinky ass muddy ditch. Took about 5 mins for his dumb ass to crawl outta there limping and panting. Cluster of a morning. No vet bills today thank God

 

[Rotnguns]

One of my goldens had three surgeries to remove a foxtail lodged deep in his paw. The vet told me she got it all after each of the first two surgeries, only to have his paw swell up again.

 

[COJoe]

$2500.00 vet bill for emergency surgery two years ago after my three yr old lab slid her rear lower leg over the edge of metal landscape edging and it tore her open about 5 inches. Thankfully it didn't cut into the tendon. No more metal edging now.... chocolate lab in AK broke his back sometime but I never knew exactly how, vet showed us x-rays for something else but it had already healed. But I think when he slid off the plastic toolbox in the back of my truck while driving a dirt road and going around a curve. I didn't realize he had climbed up on it. Thankfully no porcupines yet.

 

[slvrslngr]

Barbed wire
Porcupine
Rocks, tore up her feet
Neighbors dog

 

[Trial153]

I have run hounds since i was 20, in those 28 years i have seen every manner of injury i could think of…

 

[insanelupus]

Someone trying to convince someone that public land traps are the biggest danger to domestic pets, again?

Seems to come around every few years. The poll from the OP just makes me wonder.

 

[CMP70306]

One of my goldens had three surgeries to remove a foxtail lodged deep in his paw. The vet told me she got it all after each of the first two surgeries, only to have his paw swell up again.

Where are you located and what kind of foxtail?

 

[Rotnguns]

Where are you located and what kind of foxtail?

Southwest Idaho - we also call it cheatgrass. Terribly bad on some dogs - oddly, my two labs were running and playing in exactly the same area as the golden and never had an issue.

 

[KurtR]

I avoid foxtail at all costs. We burn it on all the retriever ground up here. I wont run in a field with it

 

[Mosby]

I'm lucky so far....knock on wood....just minor barbed wire cuts. My friends dog ran into a chunk of old t post last year. Nasty puncture wound that eventually healed up.

 

[Life_Feeds_On_Life]

Rattlesnake bite.

 

[RS_Non-Res]

Torn a chunk out of a front wheel, at home. I couldn't stop the bleeding. 15 minutes later we're at the vet leaving blood all over the floor. That impressed them. Was 3 weeks before she was running around outside w/o bandages or boots.

Foxtail sux. Look it up. That chit just keeps worming around inside causing all sorts of infections.

 

[TheTone]

Tons of medical bills into my older lab but only a couple from field injury. Torn acl while bird hunting that cost a whole bunch of money and a cut on the leg from some torn down and discarded barb wire while helping pack out an elk that required stitches

 

[BravoNovember]

Between two dogs:
Stick impaled into eye
Tractor plow disk above the eye and nose
6-8” long gash down to ribs
Hot coal wedged into paw pad
Ate a bottle of superglue
8-9 skunk sprays