Poor Baki

Baki in the cone.

So last wednesday night after work Bryan and I met at fayetteville town center to check it out for the reception. I tried to convince bryan to go eat dinner but...noooo he had to get home to run (boo). :) So, I treated myself to some chik-fil-a and headed home. Mom was out of town, so I knew I had to get home and take care of my pup. I decided to wait until I got home to eat it....so I wouldn't make a mess in my clean car. I was starving.

Until I walked into my house.

I walk into the house and smell this TERRIBLE smell. Baki stays in a crate in the kitchen when we are not home....well, I knew what had happened...it has happened twice before. He ate something and got sick in his crate. Normally, when I let the garage door up he starts barking to make sure I don't forget to let him out (like I could). Well, absolutely no noise was coming out of him...so I knew it had to be something bad. I'll let you use your imagination on what the inside of his crate looked like. So, I grabbed a wal-mart bag and used it to pick him up with, because he was covered in....poop. I carried him outside and noticed he was having trouble walking, and then I noticed that his footprints were leaving blood marks. So, I grabbed him up again and took him to my bathroom and washed him off. His legs/feet/nose/etc were ALL bleeding. So I called Bryan, my vet, and then the emergency vet clinic. I washed him off, wrapped him in a sheet...and put him in my car. My clean car. But I had to, he was so sick and shaking...I felt terrible. No telling how long he sat in his carrier like that.

Anyway, took him to the emergency clinic and they said he had an allergic reaction to something and had a very severe case of dermatitis. In fact, the worse case of it they had ever seen. I love feeling like a good dog owner. He had been scratching some but I had looked him over and he seemed fine. Apparently with a black dog it's hard to tell, and apparently this allergic reaction happened pretty quickly. He basically itched and chewed himself raw, and then got sick all over the place. The vet put it like this "If I was itching that bad, I would probably use the bathroom all over myself too." Great. I'm feeling better and better about being a responsible dog owner. They had to shave all four of his legs, his entire back end, and his nose. He looks like a mess.

We left the emergency clinic with:

Antiboitic

Steriod

Diarrhea medicine

allergy medicine

topical ointment

topical spray

Buster Collar aka Elizabethian Collar aka Cone

$402.50 bill

We aren't exactly sure what caused it, I went to my regular vet on friday and added fish oil and special shampoo to his collection of other stuff I am shoving down him twice a day. They said it could have been a culmination of things....I won't go into all that.

It was the first time I have ever let chik-fil-a go to waste. :)

On a good note, he's on the mend. I have had to keep him in small confined areas and have been trapping him at night beside my bed. Last night I woke up to paws on the edge of my bed and him nudging me with his cone. He wanted on the bed. He was shivering, so I assumed he was cold, I put a sheet over my bed, and then put his blanket down and let him sleep beside me. He's an excellent heater....and he didn't budge for the rest of the night. He's on my bed right now...wearing his cone, laying on a pile of sheets and towels. Poor guy.

What I normally look like: