No more fetch

We had the privilege of watching the two dogs that Bob walks for a week and a half while the owners were out of town. Fun until something goes terribly wrong, which it did. The dogs love to play fetch with sticks and we spent many days watching them play tug of war and fetch the sticks that were thrown to them. One morning Bob went outside to play with the dogs and came back shortly after as I was headed out for work. I asked him why he had come back so soon and he told me the awful accident that had happened.

He threw a stick for the dog and it landed upright in the soft grass, sticking straight up. The dog went at it full force and started whining. Blood was dripping from its mouth. It had cut its mouth or throat really bad, but we could not get it to open up its jaws to look. He called the owners and had Bob take it to the vet. The vet was awful and slow moving. They kept the dog for the entire day, cleaned its ears, x-rayed its hips, and gave it a pedicure (which they actually called it). Can you imagine going into the hospital for a bleeding mouth and them doing this to you? Then at the end of the day they called Bob and said he needed to take it to the emergency pet center. Nice. Bob and I were incredibly worried about the dog since it had been hurting and bleeding for so long. We checked it into the hospital which was great. They did an endoscopy on the dog and found a three inch gash in its throat.

After performing surgery, we got to take the dog back home and nurse it back to health. The owners were so kind to us, encouraging us that it was a fluke accident that could happen to anyone. They were originally going to come back from their trip early, but allowed us to take care of the dog instead. The dog is healing well and the owners have asked us to watch them again next weekend (I know, surprising, huh?). We are so excited. We had so much fun having these dogs in our home and have missed them after one day of not having them. Needless to say, we will not be playing fetch with them again.