Ouch! A thousand ouches!
Wow, this has been a busy week for email. Today I got this one from my country cousin, Thouzi who had a bit of a run-in with some tin and ended up having to get fixed up at the vet.
Hey Thouzi, I’ve got a few questions. Why did the vet put staples in your leg instead of stitches? Humans are weird–vets especially! Also, what do bandages taste like? I’ve eaten tram tickets, books, carpet and cat poo, but never bandages.
Dear cousin Bacchus,
How are you? Long time no sniff.
Sorry to hear your sister Jennie is not well. Hope she is feeling much better soon.
I had a bit of an accident the other day and am not the best myself. I was barking at the naughty dog over my back fence–being a little naughty myself (mum says is bad to bark unless there are burglars). There was a little bit of tin hanging off the back fence and I cut my leg on it. I came running inside and when mum saw all the blood she nearly passed out.
Mum and dad had to rush me to the vet at 10.30pm coz it was a pretty deep cut and I was losing a lot of blood. Mum rode in the back of the ute with me holding a tea-towel around my leg to stop the bleeding. When we got to the vet mum and dad had to lift me onto the table so the vet could fix my leg–they had a hard time getting me up there.
Then the vet put this funny thing over my mouth coz he thought I might bite him. He gave me a needle in the leg and shaved it. But the worst part was he didn’t stich me up, but put staples in me. I lost count after 10. Then I had to get weighed to see how many pills I needed. 52 kilos I weigh now. Thats a lot of green pills!
Mum has been putting those yucky green pills in my food and thinks I don’t know. But I’ve been good and am eating them anyway. Mum and dad say I’m not allowed to run around until my leg heals and have kept me inside mostly.
I went back to the vet today because I ate most of the bandage off and was limping a bit. I was so glad that the vet didn’t put another bandage on coz it took me from last Thursday till today to eat the other one off.
I just have to go back to the vet next week and get the staples out and I will be as good as new. No more pills too, yay!
Well Bacchus hope you are well. Say hello to your humans for me. Till next time.
Love and licks.
Cousin Thouzi
Posted by Bacchus on March 30th, 2004 at 09:46pm
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