I had something else entirely in mind to blog about but what happened tonight was too funny to pass up. Mimi was watching TV and realized that Chica was just sitting and staring at her... and drooling. When she looked closer she saw that she'd managed to get her lower jaw inside a round bone and it was stuck.
It was really stuck. It was completely circling her jaw and there was no way to get it off.It was behind her canines and tight enough that you couldn't bend it over her lower jaw. How she managed to do this we have no idea. She wasn't even upset, she was just sitting and drooling with this bone stuck on her mouth. She seemed kind of perplexed like she didn't know how it happened either.
When we stopped laughing and really examined it and tried to get it off, we realized it was really on there and maybe wasn't all that funny.Mimi went and got her hacksaw and starting sawing. In the beginning Chica was pretty cooperative but it took so long that she started getting freaked.
Her tongue was up under the bone and she coudln't swallow very well so couldn't hold her head back for long. We had to let her take a lot of breaks and after awhile she was digging at it and getting more frantic. It took a very long 45 minutes or so to saw through the bone. Once it was cut, Chica jumped up and pawed it off. No one mentioned this as a problem with the raw meat and bones diet for dogs!
I feel like I should submit this to LolCats with a 'I can haz bone fo evah' subtitle.
***OK, I couldn't resist. I did submit this pic and caption to LolCats.
posted by Jonna at 10:56 PM
5 Comments:
Oh you meat eaters! ;-)
Poor pooch that really looks uncomfortable - I'm glad you two are resourceful and not prone to panic.
Better stick to kibble ;-)
When Professor Jiggs was entering middle age, he started gaining a bit of weight -- as would be expected of a golden retriever. The vet put him on a strict diet. For some reason, I decided to give Jiggs a cooked ham bone. (I know. Bad owner.) He was in dog heaven. I went upstairs to take a nap. The next thing I knew, I felt something on my mouth. It was the ham bone. I thought Jiggs was trying to share or show me how proud he was that he still had it. It turned out that, just like Chica, he had wedged it onto his jaw and he could not get it off. Neither could I.
So off we went to see the vet on a Sunday afternoon. I must admit I felt guilty for breaking the dog's diet and putting him in the situation. The vet had to use what look like a wrench to pry it off.
So, both Jiggs and I can truly feel compassion for what all of you had to go through -- especially Chica.
Oh, poor Chica! She looks amazingly calm about it, though. My dog is so neurotic I'm sure he'd have keeled over from a heart attack.
Great LOL pic...will have to monitor to see if they put up Chica's pic.
Just looking at Chica makes my teeth ache. Good thing Mimi was home and she didn't spend all day like that!
Poor baby.
regards,
Theresa
poor thing...Good to know nothing bad happened to the doggie...
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