#pet injury tw

[lanaevyssmoved]

my dog is at the vet and im doing fine (<- lying)

[chibistarlyte]

hey y'all. my sister and sister-in-law's dog injured herself in the middle of the night last night and may likely lose her eye. my sister and SIL need help with medical expenses, so my SIL set up a gofundme to raise some funds. any help is appreciated, even reblogs to help spread this around 🙏🙏🙏

[a-dumb-bitch-apparently]

keep this guy in your thoughts guys an orange cat thought he would be fun to play with

[labrasmore]

Guess who’s going to the vet again!!!!! Ugh my poor baby, i want her pain gone. Think her eye got scratched and infected when Sadie kicked her when chasing a ball

[bad-puns-n-finger-guns]

HELLO MARINE BIOLOGISTS OF TUMBLR I NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY

the scales are white, puffed up, and red beneath. can anyone tell me what this is and how to fix it???

[warszawawa]

Hi everyone. This is my friend’s cat Luigi!

As you can see he’s broken his leg and tore all the ligaments surrounding the break. Our options right now are either amputation or surgery. Since it is his back leg amputation would cause him a lot of problems, but the surgery is upwards of $2000 so we’re scrambling to scrape the money together. He has a consultation with the surgeon on Wednesday and he needs it to be performed within the week to avoid complications. If anyone has anything to spare you can donate to Luigi’s gofundme

If you can’t help out financially you can also help us by sharing and boosting.

Please help us get this poor baby his surgery.

[kissmedcadly]

happy 2 year anniversary to that time my mom's great dane almost degloved her own tail

[defira85]

Me, on January 1st, holding my dogs’ faces and staring into their eyes: Listen to me. Listen. I know you’re very old for dogs, but I need you to live. I need to have a boring year. I can’t handle one of you dying this year. I am holding on by the barest thread. Can you do that?

Barney, less than two months into the year: But mum I want to escape while you’re eating dinner and run onto the road, you’re no fun

Chloe: well don’t die, just get injured enough to have an expensive vet bill

Barney: lmfao good idea

Chloe: lmfao

Barney: ow actually not as fun as I thought

[coachbeards]

so recently my cat got into a fight with a feral cat and injured his ear (don’t worry he’s okay, he’s been taken to the vet, he’s healthy, etc)…..but now his ear is mostly healed and ,,,, it’s bent. so please just look at my bent eared kitty cat

[ask-cardi-c]

Hello, Copia!

When did you first discover your love and appreciation for rats? :)

Ehh... When I was very young, working in my old church. I was scared of rats at first, because they were always... Scurrying about and jumping out at you, and everyone would scream if they saw one!

And then I was in chapel by myself one day, and I saw a rat, and it tried to run but it was limping, si? So, being the idiota child that I was, I scooped them up and made a splint for them out of popsicle sticks and nursed them back to health until their leg was no longer broken. Looking back, I am glad that the rat did not give me a nasty bite, or even fleas.

I had to hide this rat from the clergy and my bunkmate. I kept them in a shoebox while they healed and when I went to release them, they refused, and that was how I obtained my first pet rat. His name was Angelo. He was all grey and had a kink in his tail and I miss him every day.

Ah, well.

[likeawolfatthemoon]

for anyone who cares~

hades' foot was NOT broken, two of his toes are basically amputated/declawed now - they just had to clean wounds and suture, no surgery - so like...bones are just gone not broken, which is honestly better than trying to heal broken bones

doctor thinks he will heal just fine as he was already trying to put weight on it before they sedated him just to try to get people to pet him 😂 he is friendly to his own detriment

we get to go home once he wakes up from sedation 🖤

(the fuck of it all is that we were building a climbing wall for him that now he doesn't get to use for a hot minute - trying to keep him off it will be a nightmare 😭)

[themimz]

Please help me pay for my kitties surgery

They found an unknown mass that needs to be removed. It may be her spleen or intestine but there is no way to know for sure until they do it. I am still unemployed despite my best efforts and cannot afford it on my own

[becoach-a]

How's pupper doing post surgery from a few weeks ago??

oh!!!!!!!!!!! she's doing great! recently we took her to get a check up done, and they said she was healing amazingly, they're so proud of her! now we're going to look into the number for a physical therapy clinic, and see what we can do! thank you so much for asking about her!

[dragon-chica]

have never been so happy to almost have been bitten on the face.

(the difference 2 weeks can make!)

Fiona, the second mother who is extremely young and I was worried about with her babies, has hurt one of them. I don't think it was intentional, she seems to love her beans very much, but she is extremely rough with groomed herself and would bite little holes in my shirt to groom me.

the exact marks on the baby. on his stomach, both sides, and his one leg. I carefully put some coconut oil on his torn skin and am trying to get the first mother Merrow to take him.

He was sleeping between her kittens, but when one moved, he started crying (I think it's anything touching those spots just hurts), I tried carefully readjusting him and he started Screaming (Fiona's kittens are much more vocal and wriggly than Merrow's were to begin with), first Merrow put her paw on my face, her face directly in front of mine while he cried.

If she did not trust me so much, I have no doubt that would have been much worse. But she has trusted me to help her babies nurse from the first day, and let me sleep directly beside her nest.

I tried tucked him in closer to her, and he cried again. Then she had enough and bite my hand gently and I took the hint of 'get out of my room.'

He's sleeping between/under her babies right now, I will check him every few minutes and probably stay up through the night or sleep beside her again.

I think Merrow is pretty inexperienced with kittens too, but as long as he puts up a fight and nurses on her on his own (she does not nudge or carry them) I think she will take care of him too.

He's the middle child, yet runt of Fiona's litter and I just beg he does not end up like Merrow's runt.

[katzirra]

Idiot child had surgery again. He has uhh aural haematoma or something - blood blister in his ear. Could be from a number of things but considering Will bites that ear so much, my money is on that...

Leg surgery earlier this year taught us Hanni hates cones, and is a tantrum toddler about them, so I thought we'd try soft cones so he can sleep easier.

Sized them right and they did...not work out, the orange one is so shallow and boxes his poor ears in... and the sunflower fit great and he could lay down, but I filled his bowls and looked away for 2 minutes and he tore it off with all 4 feet....

So he's being a sad puddle on my floor accepting his fate.

I had work to do today but he requires attention and company, sigh. So it's movies in bed and trying to do some asks/sketches on my ipad lol

THOUGHT I'D SHARE A LIFE UPDATE OF MY GARBAGE SON....

[secretlywritingstories]

It always hurts when you have to see your pet in pain. You might even have to actively do something to them that hurts in the moment, even if it will heal them in the long run. I know having to do that cuts into my heart in a way that makes my legs shake.

My parents’ youngest dog had to get his wolf claw removed because it had gotten injured and slightly pulled out, and then it had to be taken entirely out and given chance to heal. That was two days ago and today we had to change the bandage around the wound, clean it with some spray and wrap it up anew.

Both my mother and I did it with laboured breaths, but steady hands. We had to steel ourselves and grid our teeth through it while trying to make it as quick, precise and painless as possible. He did so well. He trusts us immensely and lied there in surrounded by his two favourite humans who did something that caused him pain.

It is in times like these that I wish you could properly explain stuff to them. That we could tell him that the wound needed to be cleaned and the bandage needed to be changed. That it would hurt now, but it was better than how everything would go wrong, if we didn’t do this. How doing this would make him recover faster to be entirely pain free again. But we can’t.

He just understands that something uncomfortable has to happen, but he endures it too, because he is a good boy and he was told to stay still by people he trusts. And he got so much praise and treats afterwards, as well as soothing words and pets during the whole ordeal.

And that’s an incredible thing about dogs. They forgive and forget, at least stuff like this. I think it was far more traumatic for my mother and I to have to handle it than experience for the couple of minutes for him. Already minutes later, he was fetching a toy and wanting to play wild and dance around like I usually do with him.

It hurts not to be able to do that either. That I cannot explain to him that he must take it easy and not exert himself too much. Because he feels fine for the most parts. He limps just a little and the area is undoubtedly sore, but he’d never let anything like that stop him. He is a very happy go lucky guy, and he throws himself into everything without caution.

Owning a pet means having to make decisions for them, even if they cannot understand why you would do it. It would be nice if we could tell them the why and the how, but in the end, we must just rely on the love and trust between us.