Monday, June 11, 2007 / 12:03 PM
my dad just got back from the stupid board meeting in seattle yesterday. he skipped out a couple days to go to astoria though. i'm very excited. they gave him this basket of yummy stuff, a card, a 1 year parking pass, a bunch of coastal visitor manuals, mugs, etc. they really like him. i want to go visit.
remember ginger the broken-jaw pit bull? she got boarded for the weekend. i let her out in the yard on saturday, and she jumped the barb wire fence into the horse pen when i wasn't looking. the mare, which is due to foal any day now, was running, and usually she can barely even walk, so i knew something was up. i ran around to the pen and called for ginger several times, and on her next circle around she saw me and stopped to say "hi what are you doing here, i'm having the time of my life!" and she was soaked in blood. thank god i was able to grab her by the collar right then. i thought her jaw had gotten loose. so i took her to her kennel (then i noticed the other dog she came with, Meatball, had jumped the fence too but ran around to meet us) and went to check the horse. nope, the blood was from roca. there was a two foot long long strip of skin hanging off her chest, and deep gashes in her neck and legs. i had to call the doctor. i felt terrible. i gave her some alfalfa but she wouldn't come get it, definitely bad because she's a bottomless pit. i just stood with her while we waited. the doctor actually cringed when he saw her. bleh. so then we took her out and i kept her calm while he cut off the huge slab of skin, and sewed and stapled all the bigger gashes up. god i feel like crap. how do you tell the owners something like that? this mare has lost her foal three times now, which is why she's staying at the vet to begin with, and then this happens. dogs are sooo stupid. I like Miss T though. she's little and cute and never barks. and when she's done outside she runs right back in the barn and jumps in her kennel. damn you ginger and meatball.
in other news, marshall started skool today...and the pet store lady is going to missoula today to get me some stuff that actually works for my fish's anchorworms.
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