So my 11-12 year old dog is currently(note) in surgery for an intestinal blockage estimated to cost a total of $15,000, including prior assessments.
Assuming all goes well and she makes it out alive(note), I think I'd like to take a moment to share with you some of the incredible things this dumb mutt has done over the years (that I can remember off the top of my head):
Sliced open her foot on a run
Chased a deer under the sun
Stabbed herself chasing a stick
Ate a whole clump of carpet
Swallowed a sheet of plastic (the last time she had to go in for intestinal blockage surgery)
annnd finally, went for a walk at a lake after a vet checkup (which went well), only to somehow swallow something after being out of view for apparently a minute, if that, and spend the next hours throwing up constantly, eventually having to be taken to a $3,000 check, checked in overnight, rehydrated massively, hit with an ultrasound and bloodwork, and finally (probably currently as of writing) put under to possibly have part of her gut removed(note).
(And potentially some liver issues of unclear relation)
Broke the rhyme, but the point is that she is not very bright and lacks a sense of self-preservation.
Once she got into Valentines chocolates. That should've gone near the start.
The brown and black and now grey bedlump knows when there's money at hand, and decides then that she's going to go get herself badly hurt. Again and again and again.
20 kilograms of stupid.
Very, very stupid.
Old picture, dated 8:30 PM 8/10/20 in D/M/Y.
More grey now.
Edit as I was writing this:
It was a sock.
She ate a sock.
Phonecall, overheard about that much.
Sadly can't keep the sock, so no framing it.
Was pulled out through stomach.
Otherwise went well, but for the sake of all I am going to slap that animal.
Certified @EnglishGarden Moment
@Graingy I'm am neither confirming nor denying I did such
@EnglishGarden You ate a sock?
relatable
@DatTrainGuy19 Yeh
Still, 15 grand for this fucking moron.
Worth it but still
@Graingy thats good to hear.
@AshdenpawTG22 She knew how to sit since shelter. Almost 10 years soon iirc.
Yes she is very cute.
Most of the time.
@DatTrainGuy19 Eh got her back today 'cause was recovering well enough.
My dog understands simple English phrases somehow and some dogs are dumb as bricks, but this dog is fucking adorable
@Graingy oh... i didn't know that.
@DatTrainGuy19
1: She's still at the hospital. I declined a visit since it would take a while to get there and I feared I wasn't feeling well, and didn't want to deal with added nerves over that making a very, very, very unpleasant feedback loop.
2: I'd only feed her whatever the vet would recommend. Now is absolutely not the time to go off a feeling.
@32 damn
@Graingy give her something edible, like a beef! or chicken, or whatever meats you had available.
@Graingy ngl at the beginning of your listing it sounded like a poem😂😭 but I'm glad to hear your dog is doing alright!
@Tookan Maybe he should try bringing them flowers?
@Randomplayer Doggy :)
I have a French bulldog, a dog bred with all the downsides that a dog naturally doesn't have; low energy, stubby legs, inability to swim etc, a.k.a all the things that usually say "this dog has no ability to survive!" Despite this, he's aware of what is a toy and what isn't, he can tell the difference between a pair of slippers and something edible (doesn't mean he won't help himself to chewing up the slipper though), I once took him on a hiking trip and he refused to walk on a trail once since it was a little close to the edge of a small cliff drop, he also keeps distance from campfires and moving cars. So even though he was literally bred to have physical features that don't help his survivability at all, I've seemed to realize that he has better survival instincts than some of my friends' and neighbors' dogs from conversation. Although all that doesn't exclude the stupidest thing thing that I've seen him do; trying to make friends with a bunch of bees.
Doggy :)
@DatTrainGuy19 Nah she's just like this.
The fact stuff keeps on happening and she keeps on getting lucky is insane, though.
Assuming, of course, recovery goes well, but considering it went, paraphrasing, "as well as could be hoped", it seems she has a thing for getting into sticky spots and then lucking out.
Was sufficiently not-bad that they didn't even have to cut into the intestine, just the stomach.
@XtarsTheExdarichGuy33106 As I said, she knows when money's afoot.
@32 I think we just found Sesame's long lost sibling.
doggo
My old dog ate 2 pounds of grapes one time, and he had to have his stomach flushed or something like that. He also at one point ate about 3 pounds of Halloween candy, and was fine after puking it all up again. It’s a miracle he lasted 12 years, but they seem to have been pretty happy ones.
@Graingy great!
Imma get a Civic or a Stagea with that much money. Crazy you guys pay 15g for a instestinal surgery, once my dog (she is dead) did that thing so she dont have kids no more, costs around 40 bucks, which is a lot for us, and a surgery to fix the guts once, around 200 bucks, and that gut issue is also the same.
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Bro that amount of money for just a surgery, for a dog is enough to buy you 5 cars, 5000 full-course meals, and 8600000 soda.
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Im lucky i dont have a dog (only one but he is a literal dumbass FUCCIN TEARING MY BIKES CHAIR after i parked it near her literally after fixing it)