Say Anything.

My dad has a sneezing problem. He doesn't know how to not spray everything around him. As a result, I have now caught what has been having him cough shit up all week. Coughing, sneezing, and lots of slimy stuff coming out of the three central holes in my head have been constant for the past two days. Tomorrow, a friend is having a party at her house for her daughter's 1st birthday. It would've been my last time to see them before they leave the state for their wedding. I told her today that I can't make it. She knows I always avoid her when I'm sick because I don't want her daughter sick. Well, this time I also don't want to make the parents sick before their wedding.

What did she tell me? She told me that she ran into a mutual friend of ours (actually the reason we're friends in the first place), and told her to come to the party. Can you guess who the girl is? Yes, it's the same girl whose invitations to see her I had to decline three times in a row.

Timing. Ad nauseam.

Thanks, dad.

this actually starts at the bottom and moves up...if that makes sense...this is how my past 2 days have gone...


He got up and walked about 3 feet...and promptly peed on my carpet...with this ears down shamed expression the whole time...he thought he would get in trouble...poor baby...and then he went back to his blanket and layed down and fell sound asleep...I guess it wore him out...
AND he drank about 6 ounces of water for me...YAY...I was getting worried that he hadn't tried to get up and hadn't had a drink yet

I also found yet another puncture that I guesss the vet missed...it's kind of hidden..right in the crease where his "armpit" starts on his right front leg, but it's relatively small, I don't think it will need stitches...but it had hair in it...so I washed my hands, pulled what hair I could get out easily out of it and doused it with peroxide to flush out and debris...will have the vet look at it and shave around it Monday when I take him to have his drain tubes checked...

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He spent the night in the emergency hospital...so they could keep up his pain meds and his iv fluids...
we picked him up at 7:15 this morning and took him back to th e Vet hospital...they did some bloodwork..shaved him and found another giant hole in his other side...they anesthetized him and did surgery to repair the 3 holes in his little body...he was in recovery for a while...but is home with me now...the vet says barring any infections..which she doubts...he will recover fine...
He's still in a LOT of pain though...we got home with him about 12:30 and the anesthetic has worn off all the way now I think....but now he is cryingand whining and moaning non stop...
I gave him a pain pill, so hopefully it will kick in soon...I feel SO bad...I know there isn't much else I can do, besides keep his pain meds and fluids by eye dropper going...and love on him....but DAMN...it hurts so much to see him in such pain...
I have to take him back on monday so that they can check his drain tubes and make sure that they are working right and no infection is setting in....and then back on wednesday...if everything is going well, to have the drain tubes removed...2 weeks from now to have the stitches removed if everything is still ok with him...
If any of you could keep him in your thoughts/prayers...I would greatly appreciate it...

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today was an absolutely god awful shitty day
the monstrous evil ass MEAN mastiff next door, who weighs at least 80 lbs got hold of my barely 11 lb pomeranian today....
The vet said she THINKS he w ill be ok...she thinks
my poor little baby has a gaping 3 inch round hole in his back..and a gaping 2 inch hole in his side..
he had a little internal bleeding...but she said she didn't THINK the wound went into his chest cavity...from the xrays they took

the police won't do a thing about it
he bit my daughter too, but didn't break the skin...so they can't do anything about it...
this dog is constantly breaking his chain and runninn rampant in MY yard...has chased me growling and snapping ito my house several times....all reported to animal control..but yet if he doesn't HURT someone...or they don't CATCH him ON my property they won't do a damned thing...
when we moved in here..and had the money to do so...we told the people next door we were g oing to replace the falling down fence tween his yard and ours...he threw a fit and said he was putting in a pool and it would just be torn down for that...and that HE would replace it himself..
he never has put in a pool...and 2 months ago finally got off his butt ad started to put the fence back up...he got as far as the cross pieces and the posts...and nothing else..
we put chiken wire up temporarily til we could buy the damend panels ourselves...because he isn't gonna do it...
so earlier today his dumb dog knocked the chicken wire loose I guess...and when my daughter took out lil pom out to potty, he ran through the gap...and that monster picked him up by his back and swung him around like a rag doll...
the man pushed my daughter and slapped at her...not even trying to help my screaming dog loose from his mutts mouth...and then cussed at my daughter for punching his moose mutt in the nose to get him to drop our dog..
I ran outside to see what was going on...and saw my dog streak off..so I ran to get him...and the man yelled at me to get the fuck out of their yard...HE would get my fuking mutt and dump it's dumb ass back in my yard...
I went to pick him up anyways and the man comes after me...hollering..
went back in the house...and noticed my shirt and my hands are covered in blood...so I start looking...and find 2 gaping bloody holes in my baby...
I called my husband to come home to take us to the vet, went next door and demanded to see the dogs shot records...they refused...and started cussing at me...said it was all MY fault..IF I was so concerned about it...I should have fixed the fence...that he said he would just tear down to put his pool in....we OFFERED to fix the fence...he said no...that he would tear it back down for his pool..

he gets up in my face and says oh fucking well...I don't care about your stupid dog...
and then his wife says maybe your dog will die...and then you won't have to worry about the fence anymore...and laughed...
I wanted SO bad to go grab her by her ugly ass blonde ponytail ans smash her face off the brick wall so BAD......

How the hell can people be so MEAN, cruel and insensitive?

and how the HELL can animal control NOT do something about that dog?

if my mother hadn't volunteered to pay the vet bill...we would have had to have my dog put down....

estimated costs all total...$1100....

and I miss my baby...it's just weird for him not to be here at my feet or lying in the bed cuddled up behind my knees


I am so scared they will call us tonight to say he has died...

plese have a spot in your thoughts for my Baby boy...I got him in a VERY VERY rough time in my life...and he kept me going..he helped me through some bad spots..and I don't know what I wil do if he dies....

Oh MY God Elfykins... you are a much, MUCH better person than I. I'd be missing my pup from jail if that had happened to me. Even hollering at you in such a way as that is construed as assault. I wish, more than anything, that someone had been able to record or witness this, because it sounds like battery's involved in there too. Any chance you can put the fence there, but on YOUR property? Then you can sue the shit out of him if he tries to tear it down!

I can't believe they won't do anything about a vicious attack dog! Sad, too, that someone can create a monster out of what can be a sweet, gentle dog; I was visiting a friend yesterday who has a bull mastiff, and there was another dog there, a chihuahua, who was *hanging* from her face by his teeth, and the mastiff just laid down so that the little thing couldn't rip skin.

Your lil' pom is in my thoughts, darlin; keep us updated!

You have to be careful with puncture wounds.. Im sure you have him on antibiotics or something, but I know they can be more dangerous that cuts or other wounds, because they arent able to bleed out the toxins. My son was bit by our naighbors dog a few years back, it looked like he was stabbed with a pencil, small hole in his arm, but it went to the muscle. We didnt worry too much about it til his arm started to turn red and it wasnt going away. The infection had spread nearly to his hand before the antibiotics started working to clear it up, :(

I know my comment is about to sound very testosterone filled, however, I would try a couple of things. If this dog is running around in your yard that often, video it...just for the evidence that it keeps coming into your yard. Use the tape for Animal control, or police. Take the neighbors to small claims court, and sue for the vet bills etc. (yes there will be court fees, but you don't have to pay a lawyer for that). Did you get any type of police report of their dog attacking yours?

If all that doesn't work, shoot the neighbors dog. You have a child that goes in your yard and the neighbors dog attacks, on YOUR property. Protect your family members, even the ones with 4 legs..... especially with shithead neighbors like you have. Fuck that big dog. I'm telling you if that was me, I would kill that fucking dog before it hurt my family members or if I was afraid to go outside because of it. I wouldn't live in fear for one fucking second over a dog. With that bitch's comment about maybe your dog will die and laugh about it. How would she feel when her dog was dead.

I'm not a mean person. I love animals, and I love dogs, however I will not put a shithead neighbor and mean dog over my family. I know ther would be legal consequences for doing something to their dog, but my family and the home / property I pay for comes before a big mean dog.

Computer #2 went down. Good thing I have a spare. Too bad none of my old stuff is on it. :(

in all honesty...IF I still had my .22, I would have shot that damned dog on the spot...and I would be in jail now....
I love ALL animals...I'd have a zoo if I could...but that dog is MEAN....period
I think it's completely ridiculous that they can't do anything until it actually HURTS someone..considering how much damage even a "mild" dog attack can cause...
not only that...but my baby is in SO much pain...he cried all night..even with the pain meds...it was horrible!
And now we owe m,y mother a grand total of $1500, plus whatever it costs for treatment of the small puncture wound on monday when I show that to them...and whatever followup care costs...
I am just so thankful that my mother loves animals as much as I do...I just knew we were going to have to have him put down for lack of funds...and she offered to pay...I didn't even have to ask...

Am keeping the small wound I found last night clear of hair and am flushing it out every 6 hours with peroxide...and I put some triple antibiotic ointment over it...the vet clinic isn't even open til monday...and the emergency clinic is more than we can afford this week after what we've already paid...cost us $250 for him to stay overnight and get fluids n pain meds

It did hurt someone...well not a person, but it attacked your pet, which is a part of your family. I cannot believe they wont do anything. That is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. And I don't see how you would go to jail if it was in your yard attacking your dog, and you shot it. Are you supposed to just let your pets die because of carelessness. Is there no leash law that can be enforced with this dog running through your yard attacking your pets?

This whole thing is terrible, and I wish you all the best.

Kill the other dog. it's your property.

Someone I won't name lost a ferret to a neighbor's dog. She very sweetly went to the dog later, picked it up, and injected an air-filled syringe into it.

Thats kind of fucked up.

Wow yeah that is kind of fucked up =x Do what Elaine did in Seinfeld - take it like 100 miles out into the country and leave it there.

QFT !

I have not been keeping up with TAC. *hangs head in shame* Im sorry!!!

But my news of the day is... We move into our house June 28th!

Since we are buying my husband's parent's house everything is easy and going quite smoothly. But I am now freaking out over how to clean, pack and wait for the move in date while surviving in the crappy small condo while the kid is here for her summer break! If she wasn't going to be here I would just use her room as storage, but I cant. *panics*

Well, if you dont hear from me, I am stressing out or the boxes ate me.

Good luck Cali, it will be over soon, and you'll be living in your new house!!

Just watched the House season finale... cried like a baby. SOBBED!!

Sheesh.

Mike came home not feeling well after doing PT this morning and brought me a white mocha from Starbucks. I didn't even have to ask/plead/beg /squee

I love when the guys do that :hb

HAH!!!!
So....I hadn't seen that evil mutt next door at ALL since Friday when he attacked my dog...but I can hear him in their house barking..
I called animal control to ask them what had happened...the CITY has decided it is a "dangerous dog" and so they can't let it out even in the backyard anymore unless the owenr has it on a sturdy harness, not a collar...and it's on a leash and he/she has to be holding the leash....it also has to wear a big tag that says "dangerous dog" on it at all times...they also have to post signs that the city provides in their front yard where it is highly visible and on the fence in several places and on their front door or near t he front door in a prominent place..and if it attacks anything again it will be put down...
Turns out that we have a police officer that lives behind and to the side of them and one of his dogs got attacked last year by this dog too...and the neighbors on the other side of him have called in to report it running loose out front and in THEIR back yard as well, growling and chasing and snapping at them...WOOWOO!!!!!
OH and they also can't take it for walks around here either..the only way that dog is to be outside is in their backyard, on harnes and leash in in the hands of its owner, or in a car going to and from the vet or if they move, being transported in a vehicle....YAY!!
I'd still like to shoot the evil thing though...dogs like that r just bad news period.

Well I'm glad the devil hound is restricted to just its cave. Hopefully it never gets out again and hurts another dog, but if it does - well that's on the owners, then.