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| Glamis, March 2013 |
Today, Tim took the dogs to the park as usual. I was working in the bakery. It is 2:00 in the afternoon on a Friday - of course. Tim comes to get me because he thinks (knows) Glamis' mouth is bleeding and I might want to take a look.
I enter the kitchen to see blood smeared all over Glamis' right front leg. Then I notice the blood on his jaw. When I asked what Tim's first clue was, he said the water bowl was pink. To me, it was pretty obvious but maybe the blood smear happened after a drink of water. Sitting on the floor at eye level to his face, I lift his lip. Blood is flowing out of the gum line above his canine tooth. Grab the phone from the pocket and call Dr. Mike. Did I mention it was Friday? In the afternoon? In the summer? The weather is nice? Get the picture? So Dr. Mike was gone for the day already. I was put on hold while the office reached another vet clinic to take G to immediately. I can't go as I was already swamped with work. Some might call it my busy season but I just call it insanity.
Tim takes Glamis in to be looked at. While they were in the waiting room, the bleeding pretty much stopped. The vet looked at it and came back with the theory that it was blunt force trauma. Basically, he smacked his face on something or was smacked by something. This was a mystery to us because, to our knowledge, he had not hit anything and with the amount of blood, he was hit hard. The dogs were not wrestling or goofing off. Glamis was sent home with the bleeding stopped, antibiotics and pain killer/anti-inflammatory drugs. We have instructions to keep an eye on it and can follow up with them or our own vet.
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