Sunday, November 8, 2009

Einstein vs. Rose Bushes

Meet the cousins:

Paco: Old dog. Very old dog. Very very old dog. My brother-in-law and I like to refer to him as Einstein's evil twin because they have almost exactly the same color patterns, except Paco is black and white, and has this evil Dracula widow's peak going on.



Bambi: Hater of all men, lover of the Lee sisters. She's vivacious and timid, but loves to play rough with dogs. Especially her new best friend, Einstein!



I was doggy sitting on Friday. At first, I brought Einstein over to my sister and brother-in-law's house while she was at school and he was at work. Unfortunately, neither the garage or house doors were open, so I sat in the freezing cold on a little camping chair in their backyard until the sun started setting. Since Einstein and Bambi seemed to be having such a good time, I decided to bring all three dogs to my parent's house to play. It was dark. Very dark. Bambi and Einstein love running around the backyard, and unfortunately we have lots of extremely thorny rose bushes in the backyard. Bambi took a turn, and Einstein ran straight through the rose bushes, lacerating his right hind leg. He had to go to the emergency veterinarian who cut off some skin on both sides of the laceration in order to expose clean, healthy tissue to stitch back together with 5 stitches. Einstein had antibiotic injections, and we took home antibiotics and pain medication. His daddy cried like a 5 year old girl while I remained super super brave.

Einstein, morning after vet visit:




Einstein, day 3 of recovery. Mommy cleaned off the area pretty nicely!


My poor little boy's still recovering, but is doing very well :)

2 comments:

  1. Poor Einstein, lucky it;s only a flesh wound. Those visits to the doggy ER ain't cheap either..... a couple of more visits, and you may have to spell his name Ein$tein....

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