Ahni Frankenstein

Meet Ahni Frankenstein. Poor little girl.

I went down to thepasture to give the horses some carrots and check on them. Ahni came over to me and didn't take her carrot. I looked at her and noticed she was drooling blood; I thought she had an abcess or cracked a tooth. O walked back up tothebarnand grabbed a halter, walked back down where she lowered her head so I could put the halter on. Walked her up to the garage soicould oeek into her mouth. I immediately saw she had cut her tongue and it looked like it was cut to the center frim the side. I texted Dr. Annie, and she asked if it looked like she needed stitches. I said Yes I think a few. She said Pete (her husband) was driving her and they would be rigjt there.  I had already, unsuccessfully, tried to give Ahni some oral pain meds, she shook her head and i had butte in my hair, on my shirt and later found some in my right ear, as well as it all over Ahni's left side. Annie must have thought I was trying to bathe her in it when she cracked up about Ahni won that one!

After Annie sedated her and opened her mouth, I recieved the shock of my life! Ahni's tongue was only hanging on by a thread! I must have lost all color in my face because Annie immediately siad, look she still has feeling in the tip and there's fresh blood, this must have just happened before you went down. I held the light and pulled the sides of Ahni's cheeks back and Dr. Annie began stitching it together from the midfle of her tongue working her way out. About two hours later and three pain injections she had sewn her tongue back on. Annie told me to check twice a day to make sure  the outer stitches stay intact, if not she will come back up ASAP snd restitch them. She also said theres an excellent chance of a full recovery since it was caught so early. Ahni has to be by herself for at least the next month to discourage biting her brothers. Annie thinks is she must have somehow bitten down on her tongue. 

Thank You thank you thank you Dr. Annie!!!!!

The pictures are quite graphic. 

 

 

 

Wood for Winter!

The last two days were spent splitting wood. My right arm and shoulder are killing me, but it will be well worth the effort when the snow is falling and we're sitting inside drinking coffee. 

 

 

 

Lucky Dogs Day

Joe came home from walking Lucy and Lexi, he said there were two big dogs down by our gate that were barking and growling at him and the girls. He said one had three legs and the other looked liked it had a broken leg. He said he told them he'd send his wife to come check on them. 

I quickly grabbed hotdogs and two leashes; and zoomed down in my Subaru! I drove down about 3/4 of a mile and I couldn't find them. I called Joe and he said one was brown and white and the other was tan and he said they were at our gate. I parked at the hay barn and walked down. I got to the gate and was just about to go back when I heard the growls coming from the embankment above on my left; that's when I saw them hiding in the bushes. 

I broke off two pieces of hotdog and three them to them, best throw of my life the hotdogs went directly to both of them. The brown and white one gobbled it up and charged down the embankment straight towards me. He jumped up on me giving me licks all over. He quickly ate up the other hotdog as the tan one with the hurt leg made her way down. I put the collars on them and walked up to my car. I felt terrible about the hurt one it looked like her leg was broke. I opened up the back of the Subaru and they both jumped in. I'm glad the hurt one jumped in, because I had no idea how I was going to pick up a hurt dog that didn't know me.🤔 

At the house I handed Joe the leashes and ran to get them water and dog crunchies. They both devoured the food and drank water to their hearts content. 

I immediately called Dr. Annie Bowes, it went to her voice mail... I called her husband Pete and asked if she was sleeping ( cuz she owns the emergency pet clinic in Post Falls and regularly pulls all nighters). Pete said to text her because she was out on farm calls and to call Animal control because she would need a case number to work on the strays. 

 

 

I texted Dr. Annie and then called Animal control. At this point I was so upset because I have only been around Shelters that kill ... and I couldn't see them spending money to fix a broken leg on one and adopting out the other three legged dog. 

The lady said they would get someone out there soon.

As I hung up I immediately regretted calling them. I saw Annie had texted me back so I called her. I started crying again and she said didn't you read your text?! I said No... She laughed and said I'm on my way, read your text ... Between the tears I laughed and thanked her so much... She is the best!!! 

 

 

They say timing is everything ... Animal control pulled up and right behind her was Annie. I told the Animal control women, Allysa that I had called my friend Annie and she was going to see if they were chipped and help the hurt one. I wasn't sure I was going to let Allysa take them😬. 

 

Allysa said she had met Dr. Bowes and knew who she was, I forgot Annie helps all the police and sherrif dogs. 

 

One dog was chipped, Allysa called and it was registered to a local vet clinic. Since the dogs ower couldn't be reached at that point Annie put a temporary cast on the hurt dog and gave it something to help with the pain until it could be transferred to a vet clinic to have x-rays done. Allysa assured me the dogs would be well taken care of, they are a NO KILL shelter. Allysa took them and Annie came in for a quick cup of coffee to go. She had a one o'clock appointment just down the street  and was running a little late due to an added "emergency ". 😘😘😘😘😘

 

 

I hugged her and thanked her and as she left Allysa called me and said you're not going to believe it!!! The dogs belong to the client Annie is going to see at one o'clock. Hey are so happy you found them; they had been looking all night for them. Someone was shooting a gun near their house and the dogs got scared and took off before they could get them in the house. 

Now that's  a happy story with a happy ending! Thank you so much Dr. Annie and Allysa for your dedicated service to the greater good of animals.