This is one of those crazy things. We’ve seen lots of dogs with severe wounds that needed help, lots of nasty messes. Officer Petix has posted pictures of a lot of damaged animals. What is it that makes a particular case “speak” to people? Why does this guy generate 300,000 shares and an outpouring of […]
Category Archives: Trauma
Three days post-op. Very little nasal discharge now, most of the swelling has gone down, and he's running and playing. Ah, to be young and growing. It really has your healing powers in high gear.
This little guy evidently did something to antagonize his adult buddy in the home. Apparently, the big guy bit down on his head – ouch. He didn't crack it like an egg, but close. His owners found him with a severe nose-bleed, a few puncture wounds, and the top of his head puffing in and […]
My uncle used to be in the law enforcement profession. He told me stories of prisoners being stabbed with a “shiv” and not even being aware of it until they weakened due to internal bleeding. Something like an ice pick makes a very tiny hole, and when you stab someone in the back, it’s not […]
I saw this little kitty today for a very nice lady who wanted a second opinion. Her cat received a big wound in the left flank about six days ago. Her regular veterinarian sutured the laceration and sent her home with antibiotics. That seems like a good plan. She was upset because the wound is […]
Most of the snakebites that I have to deal with here are from copperheads. We do have cotton-mouth water moccasins, but most of my patients are not in the water so much. Usually you just see some facial swelling, as dogs typically go in nose first, and the snake bites them on the lip. […]
Back in the fall I posted a series of photos, sort of a "diary" of the healing of a bad crushing injury. The last picture in the series looked pretty good, but this most recent picture is really gratifying. This is the underside of the chest of Hercules, a big old Labrador retriever. On the […]
Five weeks, and Dizzy ate on his own for the first time. When he continued to do so for a few days, it was time to pull the feeding tube. I've unwrapped the bandage (we've changed it weekly) and you can see the tube going into the side of his neck, into his esophagus, and […]
Two more weeks of nursing care (four weeks total so far), and it looks like the infection is all under control. I'm thinking it's time to try to repair that upper jaw, and try again to re-attach the inner cheek surfaces to the gums and cover up that naked mandible bone. So, it's sleepy-time for […]
So now we're a couple of weeks into this mess. In this picture, you can see that his tongue is healing well. Some of the stitches have already dissolved, but a couple of them are still hanging in there (the purple things). You can also see the wire that is holding his mandibles together, and […]