Yesterday we had quite the adventure with Chuki. We decided to go to the park yesterday morning, all three of us. I have found this new entrance into Metropolitano but instead of being forestlike, it's all prairie. Chuki loves prairie type fields, so whenever I have extra time I try to incorporate this part of the forest into our walk. Anyways, Ryan has taken him up there once or twice but I wanted to show Ryan what Chuki and I do. So we walk up there and Chuki's off the leash running in the prairie and LOVING it. I love it too because it's like a mini-hike and Chuki seriously is so happy up there. Usually it's a great way to start the day. There is this small ravine in the park that I've never let Chuki go down into before but for some reason when he went over there yesterday I didn't call him back. He jumped down into the ravine a couple of times and then loved climbing his way out until... bah bah bah. He came out the last time and Ryan and I were a bit behind him when I thought I saw blood on his paw. We called him and he wouldn't really come all of the way, which isn't like him. That's when I realized he was gushing blood from somewhere on his front right leg.
Ryan took off his shirt (he had a sweatshirt on too) and wrapped it around Chuki's paw then we put a plastic bag over it. But that was covered in blood in seconds. We panicked and after getting ourselves together we decided we had to get to the vet and fast. We knew that no taxi driver would drive us so we started the run down the hill to the vet. Luckily, we were pretty close. About 10 minutes away. Chuki bled and bled the whole way there. People were stopping on the street and staring. Ryan tried to carry him part of the way but he's just too heavy. We finally get to the vet and Chuki just collapsed. That was probably the scariest part. Luckily (again), we have extreme confidence in our vets ability whenever we take him there. So we get there and bring him into the back. They immediately put one of those things on the upper part of his leg to stop the blood flow so that they can see what happened. And then they told us to wait in the waiting room. We waited and about 20 minutes later they came out and told us he had cut a vein above his paw with a large piece of glass. They were able to remove the glass and control the bleeding but he would have to stay over night to have fluids and antibiotics administered. So away we went, shaken but not scared.
We just got home from the vet with Chuki! He has a big old bandage on his foot but no cone. He just walked into the bedroom and he's eaten the bandage off almost. So I'm on my way back to the vet to get a new bandage, some more tape and a cone! Plus some sandwiches from Mega.
We'll post picture hopefully today when our friend Ross lends us his camera charger! Cross your fingers its the correct one!
MULUB,
Taylor
PS. We were able to get a cone for Chuki yesterday. He hates it, but it does its job!
