Sad news

What had started out as a lovely Saturday, has turned into dissaster.

As every day, we let our dogs out, the border collies as well as the aussies and the little dogs from inside.

Our Eros, the smallest one from the gang, but a very bossy little fella, ran, as always, along with the other dogs, up and down the fields. (We live quite some distance away from the street and our dogs can run free across the fields and paddocks here)

I came behind, I can't walk that fast!, and suddenly I heard Eros cry. I didn't see what had happened but suspected that a big dog had run over him, they 're very boisterous when they pass you by once they are at 'full speed'. But Eros is such a whimp sometimes so it could be nothing to. I called him to come to me, to see what was going on, and saw that he was raising his right behind leg. I grabbed him and was shocked by what I saw, his foot was broken in two, the bones even went through his skin!

We had never put the rest of the dogs back in their cage as fast as then, I called the vet and we drove there as fast as we could. When we got there, they took a couple of pics of his leg and they saw that all four of the bones were broken, just snapped in two. They couldn't do a lot, they had to call a specialist to fix this.

We could bring him back around 1pm, by then, the doctor would be there, and she would do the surgery, they would give us a call when she got there. We were also free to let him stay there until 1pm but we didn't want to do that, he was in quite some pain, and then leave him there in a small cage, with no-one around him he knows, no, we didn't like that. We asked if he could get something against the pain, but they said better not, he would have to be fully sedated for the operation and it was too dangerous, he might never wake up.

Finally, two hours later, they phoned us to say the doctor had arrived. We could stay with him for the last photo's and then we had to leave him behind. It could take two to three hours, it would depend on how smoothly things went.

At 4 pm the phone rang again and surgery was done. it didn't go as planned, they wanted to stick some little iron things in his bones, but his bones were so small and fragile, they didn't had any pins that suited. So they had to do things differently and attach the iron pins on the outside of his foot. We need to go back every month to take a photo and see how it develops. As soon as the bones are fully healed, the pins can come out. But it will take about three months