Has your dog been injured?

[LostWapiti]

Had my pup rip the pads off his front feet from running on too sharp of rocks. Didn't need to take him to the vet, just wrapped them up and kept the Neosporin on them. I was amazed how he didn't even act fazed and just kept going then I noticed blood on the ground.

 

[CMP70306]

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.

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

I’m just getting into having a bird dog here in PA and we have this stuff called green foxtail (Setaria viridis). We never really had it before but it’s been dry here the past few years and it started popping up. I heard cheatgrass was real bad but I’m not sure how bad this stuff is but it seems to be all over a bunch of the food plots on our property.

 

[KurtR]

This is what the fox tail we have in SD looks like. When it’s green I was told not as dangerous when it dries out it’s a problem.

 

[knale87]

My lab got into with something on our property, thinking a fox or a coon, and got bit on the base of her tail. Ended up getting infected pretty bad and she almost lost her tail.

 

[jcaud]

I’ve got a cowboy corgi that’s somehow managed to break off all of his upper front teeth. He will be 6 this week

 

[jmez]

I’m just getting into having a bird dog here in PA and we have this stuff called green foxtail (Setaria viridis). We never really had it before but it’s been dry here the past few years and it started popping up. I heard cheatgrass was real bad but I’m not sure how bad this stuff is but it seems to be all over a bunch of the food plots on our property.


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That stuff isn't a problem. What Kurt posted is bad news.

 

[DiabeticKripple]

I moved some stuff around my basement when my lab was a puppy and didnt realize i left a 10" long fishing lure with 2 massive trebles on it in a box on the ground. He went snooping down there and picked it up and took it outside through the doggy door.

He came back in with the hook through his tongue and then the wife tried to wrestle him to get it out and he swiped his paw at it and got the second treble stuck through the webbing of his paw. He then ripped it back out. The wife then managed to pick him up and carry him to the vehicle and off to the vet. They couldnt cut the tips of the hooks off and the vet even called her husband in. They ended up sedating him and extracting it while he was out cold.

The wife got stuck a couple times and had some holes in her arm and side of her hand.

 

[loganwayne]

Ive had bird dogs most of my life the list makes up what 4 dogs have done in the last 8 years
snake bit by copperheads (several times by one dog couldnt break her of it)
Cut pads x 5-10 times (sometimes happening in the yard, think they jumped on the woven wire fence and get cut on the ends that are sharp)
Cut my fence in the woods from old homesteads x3-4
Stung in the face by my honey bees (everyone of them seem to have it done once and learn)
random puncher wounds x3
Had a pup poisoned by something in my yard maybe some mushrooms that popped up (yards fenced all neighbors love our dogs)
one out of no where decided she was going to attack the 4wheeler time as i was driving slowly out of the shop not slow enough to not run her over. she was had some road rash on her head and side otherwise fine.

 

[COJoe]

Ate a bottle of superglue

What all does that do to a dog?

 

[BravoNovember]

What all does that do to a dog?

The vet said nothing to worry about because their saliva will not let it adhere. Just some peroxide to induce vomiting if I remover correctly. It was about 15 years ago

 

[TxLite]

I’ve got a 90lb mutt that blew out each of his ACL’s (or whatever they are for a dog) a year apart when he was 5 and 6 while running around in the yard. First time was a mole hill, the second was due to the extra stress incurred on the ligament during recovery on the first. Surgery was expensive as hell and recovery time sucked. Luckily we were at the house and not in the field because he couldn’t walk.

 

[mtmiller]

Crappy upland opener.

 

[7mm-08]

They're a damned money pit, for sure. The worst thing, however, is the portion of your heart they rip out when they take their last breath. Quite the experience.

 

[twall13]

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That's a bad day for sure. Looks like it mostly avoided the head though so that's good. In the mouth is the worst. We had a lab that lost an eye to a quill that we missed under the skin when I was a kid. About a month later it worked its way out of the eye on that poor old girl.

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[mtmiller]

That's a bad day for sure. Looks like it mostly avoided the head though so that's good. In the mouth is the worst. We had a lab that lost an eye to a quill that we missed under the skin when I was a kid. About a month later it worked its way out of the eye on that poor old girl.

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He had four in the mouth and one in the back of the throat, but I was able to pull 90+ in the field.

First vet visit was 7 below the skin and another 4 a couple days later.

Spendy couple birds..

I extracted 52 staples last weekend.

Pic from round 1.

 

[buffybr]

One time on a phesant hunt, my golden retriever tangled with a porcupine, and while my hunting partner and the rancher held her down, we pulled 75 quills our of her face.

 

[TSAMP]

This thread had me thinking about starting another. Specifically vet bills associated with injuries and treatment. For educational purposes and reference. I had a ear injury and was quoted 1100 at a emergency vet on a Sunday at 6pm to suture it. I went home and had my regular vet suture it for 150 bucks 16 hrs later.

I think alot of folks could benefit from some rough costs and treatments. What do yall think?

 

[twall13]

This thread had me thinking about starting another. Specifically vet bills associated with injuries and treatment. For educational purposes and reference. I had a ear injury and was quoted 1100 at a emergency vet on a Sunday at 6pm to suture it. I went home and had my regular vet suture it for 150 bucks 16 hrs later.

I think alot of folks could benefit from some rough costs and treatments. What do yall think?

I'd follow a thread like that.

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[COJoe]

This injury, from January 2023, to my lab cost me $2500.00 for an emergency vet. I was playing chuckit with my dog in the backyard when she chased the ball and slid after it over the metal lawn edging. She just sat up and didn't move. I ran up to her to find she sliced her rear leg open pretty badly on the corner of the metal edging. I could see it was a deep cut but couldn't tell how deep or what damage she did. I was greatly concerned she had cut a tendon because she wouldn't walk. It was a little after 4:00 pm and our vet said they were closing so we had to take her to an emergency vet where she had immediate surgery. Thankfully, she missed the tendon but it was really deep in the muscle. I am glad I didn't wait until the next morning as she was in pain. I slept on the floor next to her that night and she moaned in pain all night. She has recovered very well thankfully with no repercussions form it but it took months for her to trust her leg.

Each incident is so subjective as to what should or shouldn't be treated promptly it's hard to use a forum to make that decision. I couldn't let cost, at least, to a point, dictate my dogs treatment. If you have a dog, it's to your best interest to keep a "dog injury" savings account as it will get used.

 

[bcjoe]

Definitely start a saving for your dogs early and leave it until u need it. We had to do 3 TPLO surgeries within 1 year on 2 dogs, just when we paid off the first two, she did it to her other leg. Even if we were struggling we would do it again, never can repay them for what they have done for us.