Birthday: January 4th 2001 Likes: being with me Pet-Peeves: my having to go to work Favorite Toy: frisbee Favorite Food: he is not fussy Favorite Walk: anywhere with squirrels and ground squirrels and off leash Best Tricks: finding things, tracking Arrival Story: I previously was given a GSD in need of a home. She was my soulmate. (I will post her soon, Rosie.) Anyway, she made me love the breed. So I went looking and found this "last of the litter" timid dog. He is now 120 pounds of pure muscle and my best friend. Bio: Lobo saved me from a bear encounter when I was camping in the back of my truck. I got up in the middle of the night needing to relieve myself. I was going to scramble out of my truck when Lobo made a huffing, low growling noise and obviously could see something out there. I got my flashlight and saw a bear! Right at my tailgate. I could have stepped right on it. So, I just held it until daylight. Lobo's noises eventually turned to loud, outright barking and the bear probably left at that point, but I waited until daylight. I have learned that when Lobo makes those huffing sounds, he has seen something that he is not quite sure of. Including suspiciously behaving people. Forums Motto: Lobo - the big baby The Groups I'm In: Cats and Pups in Cartoons / movies, For the Love of Cats and Dogs, German Shepherds, Navin and Buds, PUP PALS NEEDED, Tall Cat Tales, The (Endless) Summer of Scooter, ╪▒GeRmAn ShEpErDs╪▒ The Last Forum I Posted In: Will your breed win?
What a lot of snow going on! So much so that driving with be scary. But, I will be leaving soon for the petsitter. I had lots of fun in the back yard in the snow. I swallowed the last of my antibiotics this morning. Staples out tomorrow morning! Hopefully!
It truly is a beautiful day. The kitties are watching birds and we are pretty sure there is enough video of that for them to have a new video soon. Would have been better to have this snow around Christmas instead of middle of February.
Oh, and, the kitty at the petsitter that has been afraid of me, is starting to come closer and investigate me. I'm working my magic on that shy little sweetie.
Gotta go as Mom has to shovel us out of our driveway.
Mom can write this about my staple removal day ...
Of course, things could not go smoothly.
They only removed half the staples as they thought he needed another week to heal the tricky parts of the incision. So, back we go on Friday. Meanwhile, another week like the last one. The tech said it was a massive surgery and that no-one had seen anything like what he had going on. They could not identify the seeds. It wasn't foxtail. She said it looked like he had been pierced with a stick that was full of seeds, and the stick had slipped out and left a bunch of seeds inside him. But they don't know what it was and had never seen anything even remotely similar. She described how involved the surgery was. I guess she had been present for the surgery.
They didn't let me see the staple removal but I didn't hear him yipping. He was pretty anxious to get out of there, but that is normal. Doesn't look like they hurt him at all.
So looks like things are going fine, but they think it is wise to let those troublesome areas heal some more. If we blow it, he will be facing having to go under again. We don't want that.
So, I may have to impose on Brenda and Dave again, or do lots of extra driving.
Oh, and when I took him out of the truck, I left his cone in the back. I was very much hoping that we wouldn't need it anymore, but had a hunch that we would. While I was waiting inside, a lady came in with it and said, "I saw this blowing around the parking lot ..." I jumped up and said, "That's mine! Thank you." It was funny because it is almost 50% duct tape now. Everyone had a laugh.
I get my staples out first thing Monday morning!
The whole incision looks good except for about a 3/4" spot on the tip of my knee. I guess they will look at that come Monday.
Unfortunately, the vet that did the surgery is away. Would be nice if he could see his handiwork!
I was a bit lazy and clumsy today, but all in all doing pretty good.
Oh I hope I don't have to wear the cone anymore after Monday.
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