Friday, April 10, 2015

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

We all know the story of the spilt personalities of the aforementioned entitled characters. One being calm and the other being nearly a monster, oh yes a monster!
And sadly, there are still so many things we do not know of our little guy’s past our Gus, but that sedation medication did not seem to have any affect on his behavior at the groomers, oh no, not any affect at all. 

The incident was described to me as if he had transformed not unlike the characters mentioned in my title, where this calm waggly tailed happy puppy went Cujo! His eyes went back into his head and he turned blue, perhaps Hulk-like, but not green, I suppose that was his tongue that turned blue as he tried hard to kill each and every tech in the room, all bite gloves were bit through! And so in spite of this major transgression of aggression we received a call for permission to put him full under with gas. 

Fortunately, as I said before the vet, our vet has this groomer as part of his full office services. After examined by the vet and after we felt what other choice did we have, since his eyes were in jeopardy, I said yes to this extremely expensive necessity to make sure our little guy will be comfy and not have irritated eyes, which can cause eye diseases and blindness…I did request that they make it as short as they could so he would not have to endure this apparent trauma for as long as we can keep the whole thing at bay…And the below pics are before and after…. The whole process was completed. 

As many might not understand who do not have dogs with hair that doesn’t shed, making them basically hypo allergenic and in need of haircuts accordingly, it is not just a fashion statement grooming a dog it is a health reasoning too...
Anal glands are expelled, toenails are cut, and ears are cleaned and checked for debris that besides the eyes can cause serious health issues of infections. So all in all this is important for all dogs who need this process. The $150 anesthesia plus the haircut were discounted considerably due to them just being nice, for no other reason. Normally both would have been nearly two hundred, with the haircut being forty-five added to the sleeping gas, instead they charged us $140 for both, shush, and that’s just between us. They recommended coming in every six to eight weeks, but I told them his hair had not needed cutting since November and that is when we think he was originally sheared, but when we got him by the end of December it was still quite short, and this time they did shear him again and I do think we might be able to wait a while longer, I hope, for all our sakes… That call from them this morning had me shaking most of the morning and calling the rescue organization again asking more questions about his past that must have been horrid! My contact woman there called back and truly was trying so hard to help us, but could only surmise that when the animal control picked him up and sheared him it might have been cold and fast. I suggested not unlike an inanimate object I feared...
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On that note of so much hope and praying that Gus will assimilate to all situations in time, soon, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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