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boxofdelightsTurns out it is a good thing I can pick Dutch up, because she hurt her foot pretty badly when the kids and their dad were away skiing. So now I know that she weighs 48.4 pounds, and that I can carry her to the car and then into the vet.
The vet thought she would have to amputate the toe, but she took an x-ray and saw it was reduced, that is, back where it belongs, so she decided to splint it and give the ligaments a chance to heal.
Unfortunately the cut is infected. Dutch is on her third antibiotic.
She cut herself on the fence, of all things. I had noticed that there was a crack in one panel, running down from one of its screws, but I didn't realize that it was dangerous. Dutch slammed her front paws into that panel chasing a squirrel. It cracked the rest of the way through, and lacerated her paw.
The vet thought she would have to amputate the toe, but she took an x-ray and saw it was reduced, that is, back where it belongs, so she decided to splint it and give the ligaments a chance to heal.
Unfortunately the cut is infected. Dutch is on her third antibiotic.
She cut herself on the fence, of all things. I had noticed that there was a crack in one panel, running down from one of its screws, but I didn't realize that it was dangerous. Dutch slammed her front paws into that panel chasing a squirrel. It cracked the rest of the way through, and lacerated her paw.