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I brought Cloud home yesterday. He is feeling very sorry for himself. I have to carry him into the garden for his toilets and uptairs to bed with me. He has accepted going into his cage during the day.

Today is the crucial day to see if the stitches will hold.

I have kept the little man who found him informed of Cloud's progress. He has been really shaken up by it all. His passenger had been watching Cloud and Finn racing across the fields and then they had gone out of view but as they drove up the road she looked out for them again and saw Cloud hanging on the barbed wire. They were unable to get him off it as his foot and mouth were caught as well as his leg so one of them drove down to some workmen at the main road and asked them for some wire cutters. Then they all came up to help Cloud but couldn't cut the wire so had to cut his skin.

I can't thank him enough. I think some people who would've seen a dog in that situation would have rung the RSPCA. You know, scared that the dog might bite them.

Little Finn must be traumatised by it all (not that you'd know it cos he managed to eat a full bowl of his dinner and then be flat out for the rest of the day) because he was waiting with Cloud until he saw people approaching and then he ran back to me. But he didn't say anything!If only he'd been Lassie!

So the stitches are up his thigh and meet at a 'T' between his legs. I don't know if it was a godsend that he'd been castrated already.

So Rae is coming to visit him on Monday which he will love and hopefully she will take some pics of my three and post them on here for me.

He has his checkup on Friday.
 
Hope Cloud gets over his trauma quickly :cheers: poor lad must be feeling rough - Ive only found out kirs dosnt live that far from me - maybe we could meet up one day - wouldnt that be good. :thumbsup:

Good Luck Cloud :huggles: :luck:
 
Glad Cloud is home with you, and praying hard that his stitches hold okay. :luck:

It is amazing what they did for your boy, as you rightly said they could have just phoned RSPCA or even done absolutely nothing :(

Poor Finn, waiting there with him, that made me all goosebumpy :wub: Lassie is just being released at the cinema soon, maybe Finn needs to go and see it (w00t)

Glad 'worm' is getting a visit from Rae, please give him a little cuddle from me and the boys :huggles:
 
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:D Glad to hear he's home! :luck: :luck: & that his injuries heal quickly :huggles:
 
so glad he is home,

i expect Finn got an extra large portion of dinner for being a good lad and stopping with his injured mate till help arrived

BARK! BARK! . . . "whats that Finn, cloud is stuck on barbed wire?"

BARK!GRR WOOF! . . .. "your right Finn, Lassie's not a patch on you" :D
 
BARK! BARK! . . . "whats that Finn, cloud is stuck on barbed wire?"BARK!GRR WOOF! . . .. "your right Finn, Lassie's not a patch on you"
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Like it :thumbsup:
 
How terrifying for the people that found him- and how wonderful of them to be so brave.

Poor Cloud and poor Finn, lots and lots of :huggles: from me and lurchery licks from my girls.
 
Poor Cloud, its amazing how quickly they heal thou. :luck: . My girls send him licks and snuggles and special :huggles: to Finn for staying with him.
 
:luck: Here's some :luck: :luck: Irish luck :luck: :luck: for Cloud to help him recover quickly.

And the Irish girls send him lots of :huggles: and some :wub: :wub: too

Hopefully the stitches will hold and he'll soon be back to his normal whippety self :thumbsup:
 
Really glad to hear he is home with you again and pray the stiches stay put :luck: what brave and clever dogs you have give them both a hug from me :wub:

When you get furthur down the healing road then vit E cream/oil is brilliant for the healing and scarring, my whippet Kylie got a nasty wound 2 weeks ago and had to be also stitched, they came out on monday and i have been ad libbing the vit E and i cant belive how good it looks already :thumbsup:
 
Have had several bad cuts and tears over the years, including a hang up on a fence that sounded very simmilar to clouds injury, took me over an hour to find tod one day when out coursing, and I thought I would find him dead! found him hung up on a fence with most of his back leg skin still attached to the fence!

Took me a while to disentangle him and get him to the vets, but he like my other whippets recovered incredibly quickly! they tear easily but they heal very well.

Would offer you this advice though, take your dogs collar off! he may have been unlucky to get caught up on the fence but it could have been a lot worse had he have hung himself on his collar!!!!!

Take the collar off at begginning of walk and stick it back on again at end of walk!

Hope and fully expect cloud to make a ful recovery.

Good luck
 
Sorry to hear about your friend. I know the famous 'sooty sam' pulled through a very bad barb wire incident and lived to tell the tail, and run again. I am sure your buddy will do the same. Good luck, and all the very best.
 
So pleased Cloud is home and doing well. :huggles: Home is the best place for him. :thumbsup: Little Finn :wub: :wub: deserves a giant meaty bone and Cloud's rescuers all deserve medals! :huggles: :huggles:

Extra :huggles: :huggles: for you Kirs. :huggles: :huggles:
 
murphy said:
Take the collar off at begginning of walk and stick it back on again at end of walk!
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I see where you are coming from but if your dog is found without a collar and ID tag it is a £5000 fine! Also not everybody microchips, think it is a catch 22 ethier way, i have horses and wont leave headcollars on them in the feild for reasons of getting caught and my dogs only where collars when we are going out never at home! :)
 
"I see where you are coming from but if your dog is found without a collar and ID tag it is a £5000 fine! Also not everybody microchips, think it is a catch 22 ethier way, i have horses and wont leave headcollars on them in the feild for reasons of getting caught and my dogs only where collars when we are going out never at home! :) "

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Our dogs all wear "breakaway" tag collars when they are out. Collars hold the tags for identification but if the dog collar gets caught on something the collar breaks apart so that no choking will occur.

Premier Break-away Collar http://www.sitstay.com/store/equip/collars1.shtml

Sam

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Our dogs all wear "breakaway" tag collars when they are out. Collars hold the tags for identification but if the dog collar gets caught on something the collar breaks apart so that no choking will occur.

Premier Break-away Collar http://www.sitstay.com/store/equip/collars1.shtml

Sam

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That's a good idea but wouldn't an ordinary nylon snap fastening collar do the same, I don't trust them personally??
 
Sorry, also meant to say that I'm glad to hear Cloud is back home, I am sure he will have a speedy recovery .......... they are tough little eggs!

Lots of hugs to him :huggles: :huggles: :wub: :wub:
 
So glad that Cloud is home with you, and crossed fingers that the stitches hold.

How lucky he is to have you, Finn and the lovely people that rescued him, restores your faith in mankind!!
 
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