I took Cage out yesterday and was walking through our local park and the coast was clear so I let him off leash to do a quick pee before we carried on our walk. I heard a dog barking and saw a GSD chasing and trying to bite a Spaniel so I called Cage back to put him on the lead when the GSD starts to run towards him, I picked up a stick and threw it to distract Cage and get him closer to me as I knew he'd come twice as quick if there was a stick invloved.
He caught it head on as it landed and I just watched my dog impale himself on a stick!!
It was lucky we was only 10 mins away from home at the start of our 2 hour walk as he was bleeding heavily and freaking out as you can imagine, we ran home and straight in the car of to the vets who operated immediately. The stick had somehow missed any vital blood supplies and his windpipe and was lodged along side his spine!!..He's lucky to be alive!!
My car looks as if someone has been murdered in the back, I'm also covered in blood as was he. I was allowed to bring him home last night as the surgery went well and was quite simple, he's still well out of it and sleeping the drugs off but even though he was out of his face the moment I was allowed to see him he tried to stand up and was waggling his tail. Can you imagine running home for 10 mins with a foot long stick inside your neck, if there was ever proof needed that these dogs have a insanely high pain tolerance that was it.
It was 10" inside his neck with 1" left out, I have pictures that the vet took of the operation
this morning
A very close call and hopefully a lesson we can all learn from, I 'll never throw another stick again...
