Saturday, November 8, 2008

Pirate Dog

We recently had an emergency at the Perry home. Our kids are fine and Ron and I are fine...it was our dog Daisy. We bought Daisy when she was just a puppy, only a few weeks old. I found an ad in the paper for a lady in our city that was selling Chihuahua puppies. I took Seth with me to go look at the dog. Of course he adored her from the moment he saw her (so did I). We handed over the money and brought home our puppy.
On Halloween she had an accident (we aren't exactly sure what happened) but I heard her yelp and went out to check on her. Her yelp reminded me of when I hear my kids cry. As their mom I know the difference between a frustrated cry and a hurt cry. So I ran out to the front yard and found her eye was injured. It was actually popping out of her eye socket. (Sorry if that's tmi)
We took her to the vet and she had to have the eye removed. So now she is our pirate dog with only one eye. It doesn't look as bad as it sounds but she still has stitches and in the interest of those with weaker stomachs I decided not to post a picture.
She's actually very happy and normal. She doesn't seem to be in any pain or discomfort. I've researched this online and found that it is a common injury in small dogs and that most continue to live very happy and long lives.
The funny thing is that Seth is now very protective of her. Evan got close to Daisy and Seth said, "Don't hurt her you know she doesn't have any eyes left!" He then corrected himself and said, "Well she has one eye."

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