Stay Off Your Feet For 2-3 Weeks

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I broke my puppy.


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Not really but it happened on my watch. We spend all day together so if she foot plants her right front foot directly into a gopher hole in a full sprint like nothing but net from the 3-point line and comes up limping, it'll be on my watch. Poor thing.

She was bringing the ball back. I watched it happen. Had I not seen it, I'd probably assume she's going through awkward puppy gait growing pains. But I saw it.

Took her to the doctor to rule out anything serious—nothing serious. She's got a bad sprain. I explained how we can't do walks anymore or wrestle or play fetch or play anything, really. Told her no running or digging or jumping on and off the bed or up and down the steps outside and how for the next couple weeks I have to lift her up and down stuff like that and no more morning car rides, either. No pressure on that foot for two to thr..


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Wait‼️


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She doesn't understand. I tried telling her how a couple weeks is nothing compared to the 14'ish years she'll be alive but nothing I said made a difference. Convincing a 5n1/2 month old German Shepherd to sit still for anything longer than a couple minutes is impossible like convincing you to sit still to this Temptations song.

Ibuprofen twice a day for pain and swelling—Carprofen they call it for pets. Can't be outside by herself. And when we do go outside, mainly for pee's and poop's, she can't be off leash even for that. No being a puppy again before April.


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I'll take her to the pet store a couple times a week for socializing and mental stimulation otherwise I'll probably get too involved with projects around the house or waste away on the internet. That was a joke. Socializing's for her, not me.

First dog I've known who doesn't destroy her toys. Quite the opposite. Each of her toys are still in mint condition. No missing eyes or noses or anything. Water bottles, however, not so much. Destroys water bottles.


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And then I found these strategy games, they're real cool and can keep her occupied for as long as 30 minutes sometimes. That's all I meant to do when I started this—tell you about these games. I can hardly stand her in case you haven't noticed.


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That one's her favorite. You put little foods inside the slots and then slide the plastic covers over it. The center blue pieces spin in a circle. More foods are under those as she spins them. As they open, the oval shaped ones reveal more slots—more food. She loves it.


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Put foods inside those little pockets and roll it back up—not her favorite game. There's Velcro's sewn in that stick to their self to keep it rolled up. She'll chew, paw and claw her way through that one before you refill your coffee. One more.


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It's a really thick rubber strawberry. So thick, Sweed could run it over in his new tractor and the worst that'll happen is he might get a flat. She likes that one, too. Put little foods inside it and she bites and claws, slides and paws it all over the place until it's empty. It can keep her busy for around 5 minutes.


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Ever try keeping an intuitive, extremely high-energy puppy who's super defiant because she's in super defiant puppy stage off her feet and entertained 24/7 when the absolute last thing in the whole entire world she wants to do is relax? This is my first time. ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛʀᴜɢɢʟᴇ ɪꜱ ʀᴇᴀʟ. One down, two to go. I don't know if you can tell but that first week was rough.


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FUCKING AWESOME !!!

You know animal peeps like us are the best there is right?

Of course you do. Atlas has already made you a better person. Happier from what I am seeing in your writing.

And great Fo-Toes too...

But one request. Why no crime scene shots. That gopher hole needs to be purp walked for us all to shame. Gopher's SMFH. Giant Dirt Rats... They can destroy acres of soybean crops in a single growing season. Pensyl-Tucky farm boy here. So I know... And many horses have had their lives ended by GOPHER "Giant Dirt Rat" holes"...😔😢😔

I buried it before I had a chance to catch my breath. That and all of the surrounding holes I could find. I have an appointment to get my hand looked at and begin the repair process on the third. I'm telling you cuz I buried them shits one handed.

Man, what a trip. I had a photographer compliment these photos, too. Someone who actually knows how to adjust all the zooming setting things. Thanks for noticing.

Whaddup Randy! Good morning. Not sure what tf you mean I'm always fuckin chipper, dammit!

Fuckin Chipper... "dammit"

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Oh noooo poor little one. Yep, the struggle to keep her less active. Hope it heals up well. She needs her foot.
I so love those toys… they make great entertainment for all hahaha 😜
She is sooooo cute 🥰 she will be a beauty when all grown up.
Have an awesome week @dandays

Ps. I found a rental house I can move into in May 🎉🎉 wooohhhoooo I managed from abroad. Happy to find something for a little while. I booked today the ferry 🚢 too. It’s getting real.
Now further with packing hahaha !LOL

I've been so wound up in so many things lately I've been unable to keep up. Apologies. Please catch me up right quick; house, where? For how long?

Oh man you're not kidding. She's so not a lap dog. She's a let's run and jump and swim and play dog. Sucks. But she's already walking better so it's helping. Now I gotta get real-real serious and see this through.

Thank you.

No worries @dandays 😎
House in Ireland… rental. For as long as we find a house to buy. The only country left we both don’t need a visa. 🤓 When… early May I hop on a ferry ⛴️ hubby can’t until mid July 🫣
So I have been planning a lot the last days, and now back to packing all boxes up again 📦📦📦 oh the fun 🤩 not

She will manage and once the foot is healed up… she will let you know hahaha
Good to hear she was walking better already.
Yep… you have to!

Have an awesome day 👋🏻

How exciting for you guys. Congratulations. Ireland will still allow a UK passport to stay for an undetermined time? Really? I didn't know that.

I've been where you are, I know how excited you guys must be. And super convenient for each of you to hop back and forth to England. Big virtual hugs.

I'll pay closer attention. 🇨🇮

Thanks a lot @dandays 👋🏻😊 sorry for my late reply, we had friends over. Our last visitors here.
Yes, Ireland had the CTA with the UK. So hubby can stay, work and do everything like an Irish person.

Thanks a lot, yes, I know… both we have been here many times. New adventures await us again hahaha 🤣 it is indeed exciting. And we can easily travel from there. And visit hubbies family.
Thanks a lot, big virtual hug back 🤗

Cool… will sure post a lot about 🇮🇪 😎😉 it will be my new home…
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It will be a challenging period for Dandays as she's full of energy and enthusiasm at this age :)

First dog I've known who doesn't destroy her toys.

Good girl :) She was spoiled with so many toys^^

I so love spoiling her. Poor little baby can't be a puppy right now, it's terrible. Easiest way, they say, to assist the recovery process is by ignoring her and I'm just so got dang good at doing things the hard way! = }

Thank you Trang.

Poor girl, hopefully she recovers quickly ❤

She's already walking so much better Trang. Monday, 5 more days will be two weeks. I have a good feeling she'll be ok.

You know I'll keep you posted. <3

Three weeks! That's an awfully long time to keep a puppy down!

I use bones, big ole marrow bones or knuckle bones, to keep my dog occupied for a while. Another trick, is to wrap the bone or kong or whatever has those treats in it in an old blanket, so she has to get it out of the blanket first.

If they'd given you narcotics for her pain, she would have been easier to keep quiet, but they don't do that anymore.

Good luck. Funny post, as usual.

I'm glad you enjoyed it Owasco, thank you. The vet did offer trazodone for her actually. I declined. Some days I think I should go get it. = }

Good idea with the blanket. I've tied things inside a towel and then tie the towel in knot. Can never have too many ideas, she goes through them quickly.

Oh I tried! Really! ;-) but at 0:20 my head began to move a little.... It became more and more and at 1:20 the sholders followed!
At 1:52 the feed also started to whipe in the groovy sound. Its a great song

Wow she grew so fast! No baby puppy anymore.
Wish her to get well soon and for you... Hmmm good nerves being inhouse entertainer :-x

Never a bad time for a Beeber visit. I saw that Ecency drive-by, too, Mmhm. Thank you.

Whoever says they can sit still to that song can't be trusted! = }

Crazy, right? 5n1/2 months and she's already 57 pounds 26 kilos and long enough to take up the whole bed.

<3

You have that saying "from time to time even a blind Chicken finds a corn" in english too??? Thats me an hive posts :-D

Happy I didnt miss this one here. And oh I see, yes sometimes the e-bot follows me, sometimes not. You had good luck this time

"Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters tabl..." wait, wait. A Canaanite woman said that.

Look but don't touch? No.. Oh, I know!! It's always in the last place you look.

:wink:

I reminded of a nephew who had the operation for appendix..... It was super challenging to keep him on the bed for a week.

I hope she gets well soon

I probably shouldn't say in public how my mother restrained me once when I would've been almost 5 and had my leg in a cast.

One down, dot dot dot.

Thank you AmberKashif, is your name Amber? Ever heard this song?

LOLZ. SO your puppy is making you feel the struggles your mom went through. Hehe.

Yup, my name is Amber. My grandma gave me this name.

Never heard the song. Actually I am not thay much into music

It's called Amber. Cool band, 311, they're from where I'm from.

You'll have to take my word for it.

You'll have to take my word for it

Okay. I have taken them. Hehe

:) All good. I don't think she has enough chew toys tho..

PUPPY POWER!!

One little typo in your sign off would've been catastrophic. = }

Aloha, Chinito. Much thanks. Man I can't wait til she can just be a dog again.

lucky she is very spoiled and well looked after

She makes everything better. It's a fair trade.

Whaddup man? Thanks for checking me out. Welcome to Hive. Happy early first blockchain birthday.

Maybe some tranquilizers should have come with those instructions to be still for 2 or 3 weeks.....

No... not for you.... for her ! ha ha

She needs some food that makes her sleepy.

The doctor offered to send us home with trazodone. I declined like a tough guy. Not a day passes where I'm maybe I should go get those....

For her, of course. = }

Thank you. You got any pets?

I'm thinking there was a purpose for offering those to you while she was supposed to be still. hmmmmmmm... but some people like doing things the hard way and that's ok too.

I do not have pets at this time. I have had pets in the past though, mostly dogs, after I became very allergic to cats. Of course being allergic to cats must make me smell like catnip, because if they are near wherever I go, they always want to be my best friend.... or own me.... or something.

That would be weird if there wasn't. = }

I see catnip regularly on the pet aisles. Some of it's not that bad, really, like the kind you can't smell until you're right in front of it.

Then there's the one you can smell from the Coinstar....

Weirder things have happent I suppose.

If the latter catnip, no one has had the nerve to tell me and I haven't noticed people tripping over themselves to put some distance between me and them.... yet.

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Oh poor girl, thank goodness she didn’t break her leg.
Good luck trying to keep her calm, my son Derrick had his foot run over by a car, he was 5. They put a soft cast on it and told me to keep him off it for a month. Yeah right, within 2 days the cast was mess and he was walking on his heel to get around, no amount of ice cream would keep him down.
Back to the doctor we went for the application of a walking cast.
Oh the joy of motherhood 😃

I got pretty worried when it wouldn't go away. Day 3, 4, 5 her walk deteriorated. I was so glad when nothing was torn or fractured. She's already getting around a lot better.

Total brat! She hates every minute of it but it's working. 5 more days.

Now I know how my mom felt when we cut my cast off my hand at Corey's house. = }

<3 farm-mom

They hurt we hurt, there is no getting around it. Even though this incident was totally unavoidable, when we're the one on duty there is no getting away from feeling guilty.

Good luck keeping Atlas from behaving like a puppy. What may help him to mellow out a bit are some of those doggie treats that contain some CBDs. I didn't believe they made such treats until our friend told us that she gives a couple of them to her dog before long car rides and that they work great.

I'll make sure that when I get that new tractor I'll keep a keen eye out for anything that looks like a rubber strawberry. The last thing I need would be a tire that is flat on one side.

When Uncle Louie first bought his property he was riding his tractor in one of his hay fields. He ran into a gopher hole and was thrown from his tractor. No injuries, but from that day on if he saw a gopher he would pick it off with his rifle while sitting on his front porch.

I just laughed enough to feel it in my stomach repeating the Uncle Louie story to Pura. He didn't know which gopher was responsible so for the rest of his days he had a score to settle.

That is F'ing funny.


It's tough. Gets a little tougher each day. She recently figured out she's got the advantage under the bed. But that's WAY too much pressure on her foot and then I can't catch her so it turns into a game.. for her.

5 more days. Tic, toc. Tic, toc.

We're in Alabama right now. Huntsville. They got a hot real estate market and it was only a 5 hour drive. Heckuva way to keep her off her feet until you let her out!

5 more..

Uncle Louie was a real character, beloved by so many. If it were not for him, we wouldn't have ever thought about buying our property when I was only 25 years old. Back in the day, it was a real struggle to make ends meet, but he convinced us that the bills will continue to roll in so what's one more? It doesn't seem like a lot of money now, but 45 years ago $100.58 a month for 10 years was a bite.

Five more days and the pressure is off, until the next incident. Dogs are like kids, mischief is to be expected and doctor bills become part of the budget.

At least you didn't step into the gopher hole although that would have looked pretty funny, of course, only if no injuries were incurred.

Are you looking to possibly buy in that area? My Aunt Eileen lives in Alabama and it seemed to work out for her as she made it to 100 years and she's still going strong.

100?? Dang! That's like the ladies on Pura's side. Her nana was a week shy of 102 when she died at the home she lived in BY HERSELF! And her grandmother is 86 and plays tennis every day, manages neighborhood stuff, holidays at their house, et cetera. Impressive. My only grandparents were gone at 74 and 76.

Yes. Shes got a couple vacation/seasonal type properties we're scoping out and wanted to see in person. A real good friend of mine who does this kinda real estate venturing stuff for a living once told me if it pencils out, it pencils out.

Dang, Bob. It pencils out here. So, she just (as in just) got us a viewing; 1+1+loft overlooking Guntersville Lake this afternoon.

Good stuff.

I don't think I'll make a 100 or would want to.

I just took a look at Guntersville Lake, it looks like a great place to hang out for ???. It's the largest lake in the state, with 67,900 acres. It looks like there're a ton of things to do in the area including bike paths, right up your alley.

I also took a look at some cabins that are right on the lake. A lot of them looked new, with many of them priced under $200 a night. Heck, they even had a floating cabin for less than 100 a night.
I can see why you are interested.

Don't forget about Atlas, it would be a little difficult keeping her under wraps.

Your due diligence doesn't surprise me.

You get the one on the left, I'll get the one on the right. We'll rent'em out year round all except for maybe a couple weeks around Labor Day which also happens to be DanDays birthday.

See you then.

I like to see the places my man is going. I'm not a big fan of sitting on the beach, but hanging around a lake is my cup of tea.
Headed to Jersey in an hour, trying to get out early to beat the snowstorm that is supposed to start around 9. I'm over the winter weather.
Talk when we get back, have a great weekend.

Que linda muy linda de verdad, se ve tan alegre e imperactiva, cómo ya lo mencionaste no es fácil tener a una perra así quieta, pero está súper bien que tenga esos juguetes y allí puede pasar momentos digamos que tranquilos, espero que se mejore pronto, para que pueda volver a sus actividades de saltar, correr y cavar...

Saludos y éxito:).

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Hola Missel20. Veo que te registraste aquí hace menos de un mes. bienvenido a la colmena. Me alegro de que nos hayas encontrado, el porro no era lo mismo sin ti. las cosas pueden ser confusas a veces hasta que aprendes a manejarte aquí. Todavía estoy aprendiendo cosas 6 años después. avísame si necesitas una mano con algo para avanzar y te enseñaré todo lo que sé.


Ya se está moviendo MUCHO mejor. No he notado su cojera en un par de días. 5 días más de esto y creo que volveremos a ser un perro normal otra vez.

Gracias. Es un placer conocerte y muchas gracias por el reblog.

Holaaa, muy feliz de estar aquí en esta plataforma, gracias por prestarme de su ayuda... En cuanto a tu mascota, que bueno que este mejorando, me alegra mucho.

Saludos y éxitos....

Ouf, I happy for you guys that it is just a strain (I could visualize the worse when I saw that the full sprint mode was active with that gopher hole). It could of easily been a broken bone (ouch). Those toys are great (didn't have those when I had a dog), but then again my dog did destroy everything (including wodden stairs). The last pic is really great, we can already see that it will be a dog not to mess with :-)

She's so spoiled and I love it.

What's up Peg? Thanks for checking this one out. As her limp remained at day 3, day 4, day 5 I had bad thoughts in my head—fracture, torn ligament, worse.

I'm so glad it's not as bad as it looked.

6 more days. Hail Mary hallelujah!

Ah, the joy of impossible tasks. At least it's cute.

The old Rottie used to do stuff like that when he was young, but he didn't need a gopher hole to step in, he was great at just tripping over his own front feet while running at a full sprint downhill.

Something that used to work for me, after I'd trained him to sit, was to just a hold a treat in one hand while I was reading, and he would sit and wait for it. When he started to lose interest, I'd just shake my hand a little, and he was right back at attention. I could keep him almost motionless like this for a couple hours sometimes, with just a few treats.

I can't swear it will work for yours, but mine used be all attention when I had a treat in my hand. People used to ask me if he was trained, and I would tell them "He's a genius if you're holding a piece of bacon."

..he was great at just tripping over his own front feet while running at a full sprint downhill.

Something that used to work for me (cut!)

I think we've talked about this before but you're only a punctuation mark or two from being real funny.


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Whaddup. Our dogs are eerily similar that way. Without food, she's not really interested in practicing commands. With food, she's doing shit I'm like dang, I don't remember teaching you hand stands.

6 more days dot dot dot.

She's amazing, I hope she heals quickly :) ... It's going to be hard to keep her occupied until she can run... I wonder if the vet would approve of swimming? That would wear her out, and give her something different to do.

I tried telling her how a couple weeks is nothing

🤣🤣🤣 Good luck, when to her ten seconds is an eternity! That first sliding toy looks like something a human toddler would find stimulating. I'm thinking your puppy will be opening doors pretty soon...

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Funny you say that. We replaced the knobs with all new handles in the house about a month before we got Atlas. I told my wife she'll wish she didn't do that cuz the dog will open the doors.

She opened the back door of all doors, first, one of the heavier doors in the house. That happened. At about 12-13 weeks old. = }

Now that you mention it, next time I'm invited to a little ones first birthday party, gift shopping is a cinch!

🤣🤣🤣 the knobs wouldn't have stopped her, but they might have slowed her down! Now you should teach her to close them behind her like a lady!

Just wait until she starts bringing you things to hint at what kind of outing she wants :)

Yeah, that would probably be the kid's favorite gift, but be sure to throw away the box showing the puppy on it 😂

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