Rainy day Ducks

[Two Creeks Farm]

Poor Gauge....

He got mailed by my oldest lab....

Knocked out right after we stitched him up on the kitchen floor.

Waking up

Couldnt walk straight but wanted to retrieve LOL. He was pretty woozy!

Healed up very well. Took 18 stitches

 

[gritsar]

Beautiful dogs

I like labs, always have. It's just I believe there is a type or breed of dog for every type of person and GSDs are the breed for me; wolfhounds being a close second.
I am disabled. DH and I are not professional trainers by any stretch of the imagination, but we are training the boys to help me around the house. We are also not professional photographers, but here are some old pics of our boys I just posted for a BYC friend:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=506290&p=2


My apologies. I didn't mean to hijack your thread. I was just very much taken with your handsome dogs.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

A 4 point buck came in the yard and Gauge ran up to it, it whacked him. Needed stitches but I doctored the wound and it is fine

A run in with the new fence cost him some blood and some reprimand. He is really good at laying still while I work on him

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

gritsar, we love shepards, had many over the years!!

 

[gritsar]

Quote:

We have taught our older GSD Jax to help me up when I fall and pick things up for me when I drop them. He will also carry things from room to room for me.

Our younger GSD, Kane, is my baby. A very large baby at 100 lbs. He helps me stand up from a sitting position and stays right by my side in case I need him.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Sounds like excellent companions!

 

[Jesseschickens]

We have a Doberman and Jinx is most of my hens best friend. By most i mean not Shadow, She gets jealouse and pecks poor Jinx!!!

 

[peewee]

Poor Gauge!!
We had Weimaraners for years and one of ours named Justin had a similar accident. Now Justin was a little "touched" and he was exceptionally hyper. If anything could go wrong it always did for for Justin. I was fixing the dogs their dinners one night and just happened to look down and noticed a spot of blood on Justins coat. Checked him over and found a SMALL scratch on the inside of one of his ears (most likely from going after one of the cats) that couldn't have been more than half an inch. Normally I wouldn't have done anything about it but it was kinda caked with dirt so I cleaned it up, put a little antibiotic ointment on him and then sent him on his way. Not thinking anything else about it. The scratch was that insignificant. Well to make a very long story short, we went threw two sets of stitches (which he managed to pull out even with an E-collar) then staples (which he managed to pull out again even with his ear taped up and with an E-collar on) then a large hematoma that had to be surgically fixed (which he kept re-opening) to finally having to knock him out for two weeks only letting him wake up enough to eat, drink, poop, and get some minor exercise for about 10 mins. before giving him another knock out pill to put him back to sleep. I knew I was going to have a fun day at work (I worked at a vets office THANK GOD! at the time) when I woke up in the morning and my living room would look like a slaughter house from him breaking open his ear again. It took us almost two months, around $700.00 (even with my 80% discount that I had), 9 trips to the vet and I had to repaint my walls in my living room, just from an insignificant scratch on his ear.

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

LOL...you never know what will end up happening with pets thats for sure. Vet bills scare me!

 

[Miyashi]

Love that action shot of your dog. >_<
He's very pretty.