Has your dog been injured?

[JohnB]

Repaired both CCLs on my lab mutt. When she was a puppy and someone mentioned pet insurance I said "the only way that would pay off is if she blows both knees". I never thought I'd spend that kind of money but damn is she a sweetheart.

 

[Sandstrom]

The porcupine was fun, his dad got stitches from barbed wire twice in the same trip. The most expensive was a small scratch in an eye that wouldn’t heal and ended up costing around $1500 and five trips to the vet and veterinary eye specialist! All in all, totally worth every expense and worry for such awesome hunting partners!!
Ryan

 

[OMF]

Our last dog was bitten by a bat in the paw. I think it had be hit by a car and couldn't fly but was otherwise seemingly ok. I didn't see it at first, dog went to check it out, jumped up and back but it was too late. Big swollen paw and antibiotics took care of it.

 

[Mike Islander]

Shot in the balls while stealing chickens. Still sired 9 pups in a single litter later that year. ;-)

 

[OMF]

@Sandstrom, yikes!! That looks very painful.

 

[Mike 338]

Porcupine.

 

[wildcat33]

Barb wire

 

[Sandstrom]

@Sandstrom, yikes!! That looks very painful.

Wasn’t too bad, I think it was more of an “exploratory” bite on his part. Most of the quills came out relatively easy. Got all but one that I didn’t see, that one got infected and required a $350 vet appointment to get antibiotics, swelling went down and it came out also

 

[ThunderJack49]

My heeler shepard mix has been run over by the horse, which cost him two teeth. He also blew out one CCL, unknown how that exactly happened. Barb wire has got him a few times, we run smooth wire at the house and it took a few times to learn.

 

[Ralphie]

Lots of chipped broken teeth from cattle. Got stepped on the paw by a yearling steer and it scrapped the paw skin off. She was one tough heeler and she howled and howled. Had to hurt. Vet sewed her up.

Ran over a electric fence ground rod and it ripped her arm pit skin wide open.

One morning she had ONE porcupine quill in her mouth.

Skunked as well.

My dogs and others im around are around barbed wire daily and I’ve never seen one hurt on it. Are these bird dogs that are getting hurt on it?

 

[npm352]

Mountain lion...but it ended ok.

 

[Milestone522]

Had one Springer cut her pad on broken glass in the field, and later blow out a front shoulder that needed surgery. Had a Boxer go blind in one eye from a foxtail.

Otherwise it looks like I have been lucky overall compared to the bulk of these responses.

 

[MTPipeliner]

CCL x 2, porcupine, broken tooth, barbed wire over the course of my last two labs. And of course skunks as well.

 

[Sunshine40]

My 8 year old lab has a fake elbow replacement. He hurt it as a puppy and was losing mobility in it as he got older. My wife found a vet in Los Angeles that was doing joint replacement surgeries. He got brought in, had the surgery and was back to hunting in 3 months.

He also almost checked out on us when he ran through a glass sliding door and started bleeding out on us. Luckily we live down the street from a vet and I could controll the bleeding until we got there.

Our golden retriever got a little too friendly with a rattlesnake one too.

 

[Beagle1]

Amazon driver hit both of our beagles. One was only bruised the other had a broken femur in his back leg. Surgery and physical therapy cost about $8,000.

 

[LookinforDirt]

Mountain lion...but it ended ok.View attachment 702481View attachment 702482

What are those things sticking out of the stitched cuts? Glad the pooch came out okay.

 

[OMF]

@LookinforDirt, those are surgical "drains". They keep blood/fluids from accumulating and causing issues of one kind or another.

 

[Taudisio]

My dogs and others im around are around barbed wire daily and I’ve never seen one hurt on it. Are these bird dogs that are getting hurt on it?

Two labs that have had their ears ripped open on barbed wire while chasing pheasants. An Australian shepherd almost popped his eyeball on it as well. Vet said a mm more and he would have been a one eyed dog. All 3 of those dogs are long gone. I miss the Aussie. He almost made it to his 18th birthday.

 

[*zap*]

lost a dog to heat stroke and a dog to vehicle hit.

 

[npm352]

What are those things sticking out of the stitched cuts? Glad the pooch came out okay.

Thanks!

Those are draining tubes. We cut the stitch and pulled them out after a few days.

Caught him in a cave. She got roughed up. I took her to wife who took her to vet. I went back up and turned loose at the cave and treed him a few miles away and killed him.