Has your dog been injured?

[jahaze]

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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

Shorthairs have an incredibly high pain tolerance, and love to chew on porcupines...I had one that would get a mouth full of quills, lay flat on his back so I could pull them all out, then go right back to hunting the damn thing! Best dog I ever had.


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[Dos Perros]

Had a dog that could never figure out barbed wire. I learned to stitch him up myself.

 

[dutch_henry]

Now 12, my dog has had all sorts of misadventures throughout his life, from porkys to yellowjacket attacks to domestic dog fights to cut-up foot pads from broken glass. I love his "rub some dirt on it and get me back in the game" attitude.

One thing I hate though? Ticks. Tickborne diseases have been fn horrible. Damn those little bastards.

 

[Dos Perros]

If I were to name all the injuries I know about within my circle of friends it'd be something like this:

Lots of barbed wire fence cuts
Multiple porcupines, one dog in particular
One got hit by a car but didn't require medical care
Truck got rear ended by a semi and two dogs ejected from the bed, multiple injuries and lucky none died
Grass awn migrated to the spinal column and killed a dog
Dog got into some rat poison and died
Dog got sick and died, tick borne illness
Dog got sick and died, racoon likely ate from her bowl and shared an illness
Dog impaled himself on a mesquite tree branch and died instantly

 

[WCB]

Crap...forgot about the dozen Needle Pigs my dogs have gotten into. A bunch of barbed wire cuts or old fence posts....Couple hit by cars. Lots of tongue cuts from cattails and a couple stick jabs inside the throat. Pretty routine hunting injuries. Nothing a couple stitches, staples or duck tape couldn't handle.

 

[Agc05]

Calling your Vet for advice is always a good idea.

 

[sjwfarms]

Lab came back lame after a long retrieve in Arkansas rice field. Thought it was a sprain/tendon issue. Due to the injury called the hunt short and drove the 4 hours home with him in his kennel. He was passed out and in shock when I arrived home at 9PM. Emergency late night vet visit and noticed a rice stalk had pierced his foot through and through. Spent next 6 weeks reviving him and saving his paw from the flesh eating bacteria that had eaten the skin off his foot.

 

[displacedtexan]

I currently have one with a missing front leg from a snake bite, and one missing a back hip (top of tibia and part of the pelvis) from a vehicle altercation.

Plenty of stitches, and even more Un stitched cuts. Pulled lots of quills myself.

 

[sf jakey]

Just got my lab back from the vet after a spontaneous pneumothorax. 5 years old and the best hunting dog I have been around. I was willing to spend a boatload to save her. Required several days in the er, chest tube, and a lot of luck. She’s on strict rest for 4 weeks minimum. Hope it was a one off event

 

[troutlawjoe]

My shorthair ran through a cattle guard after a javelina in South TX, pulled over by border patrol twice on our 45-minute race to the vet. He bit his tongue straight down the middle about 4 inches and it was real difficult to keep it stitched/healing and his hiatus from fetch nearly drove him mad. Luckily it was our last hunt of the year. He's got a snake tongue now and barks at cattle guards.