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Had any of these dogs you mentioned fractured their pelvis? Its just im worried about the bone healing in the wrong place! Marie. :huggles:
Hi Marie, none of our dogs had a fractured pelvis, but let me tell you about another type of fracture that one of our dogs had that was horrific.
We board dogs, and the boarders never run with anyone else's dogs, or ours, which is common sense. One of the dogs we were boarding was a big labrador cross with a snarly, temperament. As people we were wary of her because she clearly was not well socialized, and so a challenge once out in a run, to get back in.
She was out in the big exercise yard for boarders and one of our whippets was in the adjacent yard, which you can only enter though a chain link gate. There was rather a large space between the edge of the gate and the fence where the gate was bolted, and unfortunately, it was large enough for a whippet with a sleek skull to put its head through. A bitch we called Sammy Goose put her head through the fence to sniff the dog in the other run (the Lab X) and the Lab grabbed her entire head in her mouth and chomped and wouldn't let go! My son and I were both in the yard and got a broom and managed to get the Lab to release her hold, but when she did what we saw horrified us. One whole side of Sammy's head was collapsed while the other was normal. She looked like that side had gone through a crusher. We rushed her to the vet hospital which is a merciful 5 minute drive from our place and Kevin -- the same Kevin -- took a serious look at it (we thought we were facing euthanasia) and did one x-ray. It turned out the bone that connects the skull above the eye socket was a clean break, which is what created the collapsed face look. Kevin carefully used his fingers and moved the clean fracture back into place and then bandaged her to hold what he had done in place. Her head was still enormously swollen so she continued to look awful -- and then showed us in a medical book what he had done.
Sammy came home with tablets for pain and a requirement she be kept quiet and alone for the next couple of weeks. By the end of a week as the swelling came down we could see her head would be normal again, and after a month, you would never know she had ever suffered a fractured skull.
So if you vet says this is a clean fracture, yes, it can and will knit together given time. It happens in people too... hairline fractures are treated with time, and wrapping but not much else.
Good luck, again!
Lanny
PS The Lab was we realized only reacting to someone sticking their head through a fence at her... because of her bird dog mouth despite the grabbing of Sammy's head, she did far less damage than another breed would have because her mouth and instincts are to handle things in her mouth softly. We also tightened the gap between the gate and fence post so no curious dogs could stick heads through the posts any more!
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Hi Marie, none of our dogs had a fractured pelvis, but let me tell you about another type of fracture that one of our dogs had that was horrific.
We board dogs, and the boarders never run with anyone else's dogs, or ours, which is common sense. One of the dogs we were boarding was a big labrador cross with a snarly, temperament. As people we were wary of her because she clearly was not well socialized, and so a challenge once out in a run, to get back in.
She was out in the big exercise yard for boarders and one of our whippets was in the adjacent yard, which you can only enter though a chain link gate. There was rather a large space between the edge of the gate and the fence where the gate was bolted, and unfortunately, it was large enough for a whippet with a sleek skull to put its head through. A bitch we called Sammy Goose put her head through the fence to sniff the dog in the other run (the Lab X) and the Lab grabbed her entire head in her mouth and chomped and wouldn't let go! My son and I were both in the yard and got a broom and managed to get the Lab to release her hold, but when she did what we saw horrified us. One whole side of Sammy's head was collapsed while the other was normal. She looked like that side had gone through a crusher. We rushed her to the vet hospital which is a merciful 5 minute drive from our place and Kevin -- the same Kevin -- took a serious look at it (we thought we were facing euthanasia) and did one x-ray. It turned out the bone that connects the skull above the eye socket was a clean break, which is what created the collapsed face look. Kevin carefully used his fingers and moved the clean fracture back into place and then bandaged her to hold what he had done in place. Her head was still enormously swollen so she continued to look awful -- and then showed us in a medical book what he had done.
Sammy came home with tablets for pain and a requirement she be kept quiet and alone for the next couple of weeks. By the end of a week as the swelling came down we could see her head would be normal again, and after a month, you would never know she had ever suffered a fractured skull.
So if you vet says this is a clean fracture, yes, it can and will knit together given time. It happens in people too... hairline fractures are treated with time, and wrapping but not much else.
Good luck, again!
Lanny
PS The Lab was we realized only reacting to someone sticking their head through a fence at her... because of her bird dog mouth despite the grabbing of Sammy's head, she did far less damage than another breed would have because her mouth and instincts are to handle things in her mouth softly. We also tightened the gap between the gate and fence post so no curious dogs could stick heads through the posts any more!
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- poor Tara - but so pleased to hear that she is making a very good recovery. :huggles: Hope the vet is pleased with her too. :thumbsup: