1.24.2006

Dog's Leg Is Broken - The Dog Walker's Handbook

Sorry for the short post before. Just got word that our puppy broke her leg. Had to take her to the Animal Hospital. I won't even tell you how much that is costing.

The vet says that you can tell if there's a fracture to a dog's leg if the dog is trying not to put weight on the leg. At least you should take the dog into the vet at that point. And if the dog is walking normally, there is no fracture. Just a handy rule of thumb.

Click on The Dog Walker's Handbook ($5) for more details.

Econo-Girl feels free to write this since our dogwalker never reads my blog.

He has lost that puppy for at least four times in the last two months. This is while walking it. So he takes the dogs to the same fenced area with the gap in the fence every day, and keeps going back even though the puppy, Molly, runs away about once a week lately.

So this time Molly runs into the street and gets hit by a car that naturally doesn't even bother to stop.

I ask you: what kind of dipshit takes a dog to the same place it always runs away from? Leisure Lad thinks that the guy is cheap and an old friend and means well. He says we should just insist that the puppy always be tethered, and since we never told DogWalker Dipshit to do that we don't have room to complain about him.

Fire his ass, I say. It just isn't acceptable to be that dumb. He is a smart guy, and a good poet. But damn it, I can't keep risking my dogs like this. Econo-Girl is upset.

It is 2 a.m. and there is paperwork to fill out for the job. Can you believe it? They hired me and I still have to fill out an application! Ah well. It's a job at least.

4 comments:

Econo-Girl said...

Great advice, Lewis! I had no idea what to look for. The thing is, my husband and I keep banging up the car so we really need something where a few dents make no difference.

And I loved my Camaro, but the old ball and chain said 'it was a single woman's car' and it went by the wayside. Glory days.

The Lazy Iguana said...

Good thing you got that job. Now you can just forward your first check to the vet. The vet probably drives a nice new shiny Corvette.

Do not get a truck. They suck up too much gas.

The Lazy Iguana said...

With 4 cats, my vet loves me.

Girasol said...

sad to hear that, how is you dog?