WTF God!?!?!??! Stop it!!

Yet another emergency.

Dog started bleeding from the ass at 1:30 AM. Only 24 hour vet was a 1/2 hour drive, somewhere I'd never been. Hey, highway traffic's light at 2AM! Abcessed anal gland. $500 outpatient procedure. Got home 4:30. Dog still crying at 6. Never got back to sleep. Have to go to work all zombie-like.

Enough already!!

I love the decorative wrap to keep her tail away from the wound.

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I ain't clickin' that!

Didn't you get the memo? God said you are the new Biblical "Job" and he's testing your patience. Check your "junk mail" folder - that's where I found the memo.

I hate when he waits until just before quitting time to distribute this crap!

Sorry about your problem with your dog. I had a similar problem with Jack Bauer bleeding from his butt, and a similar vet bill.

It will get better.

She looks more like a dog and less like an owl in that picture than in any previous one I've seen.

Our own vet tells us this is perfectly normal, so not to worry. Would'a helped if it hadn't happed in the middle of the night, of course.

She's having trouble navigating with the space hood. She keeps trying to rub her head against things, and it makes a hollow plastic thump every time.

The roommate's goggie just got his off. He got a stick in his eye while out running or something, so his cornea is healing. In the mean time he got a big nasty "hot spot" on his neck. Fortunately that went away pretty quick.

See, when I look at that picture, it looks like Nikki's saying "Oh yeah, there we go. The camera makes it all better. Let's look at the dog with the damn satellite dish on her head. I can pick up ESPN everytime I try to lick myself."


J.

We tried going to bed last night with Nikki gated in the kitchen (standard fpr when she's sick - the floor is easier to clean, and in this case there's nothing for her to catch the collar on). But after 1/2 hour of the barking and howling, Mary bundled up some sheets and a pillow and camped out in the living room where Nikki could see her. That kept the dog quiet and we all got some sleep.

I just hope that doesn't have to be every night until she's healed!

Did you teach your dog to give that "hey, baybee" look?

Awwh poor Nikki (and poor Mary!). I do love that hot pink tail wrap though.

She looks hysterical wagging that thing!

Unhappily settled into the kitchen. We moved the garbage can onto the porch to give her more room (that collar is downright dangerous!). I half expect to find a raccoon dumpster-diving it some night.

If this were in the Red Room...

She seems to be adjusting...

Forbin why is your dog wearing that big megaphone on his head?

Ah well, at least you aren't the dude from "Alien".

She didn't think she barked loud enough. She saw that in one of Billy Mays' last ads and just HAD to have it.

NEW! BARKAPHONE DOGGY AMPLIFIER! AND IF YOU CALL NOW...!

When our dog decided to take on a German Shepherd a few years ago and it did not go well for him, the vet at first put one of those cone-things on his neck.

He couldn't eat or drink with it on, so we had to take it off and put it back on.

At one point when he was eating and I stepped out of the room to take a piss, he took the opportunity to chew off all his stitches.

When I took him back to the vet and told them what happened, they put a different kind of neck restraint (kinda looked like the thing Nikki has on her tail) on him so he couldn't turn his head far enough to chew on his stitches, but it left his head free to eat and drink.

I was pissed that they didn't put one of those on him in the first place (the "extra" trip to the vet cost an additional couple hundred dollars).

WE'LL GIVE YOU A NEON PINK TAIL-SPOILER!

Ahhhh... A female! She saw it and just had to have it.

Now I understand.

She seems to be adapting!

So. God is fucking with me too. Starting around Thursday I spent four days, driving around to motorcycle stores, trying to find a helmet of the color, size, and style I wanted before giving up and just ordering one online.

Right now I'm two days and about 9 stores into a search for a roll of 3/4" reflective tape. Today what was going to be a quick stop at the neighborhood bike store became a four hour ordeal that ultimately came up empty. The closest I got was on my fourth store. They actually had a sample of what I wanted, with a price beside it.

They didn't actually have any fore sale, but if they had, they'd have known what to charge for it. I asked the clerk if they maybe had some, since there was a sample on the wall. "Oh. No. And there's so many bike stores around that we really don't bother to carry that." Yippe-ki-yay, because apparently nobody else does either.

I did find yellow die-cut stickers. And orange tape. And silver fabric tape that you can sew onto your jacket. I found colored 3/4" tape and 2" white tape with a silver honeycomb design on it. So now I'll wind up ordering the fucking stuff off the Internet.

At least it wasn't a sham-bow-wow.

I'm thinking of decorating that hood. Maybe tassles around the rim. And an NRA decal.

Were you bleeding from the ass?