Yeh, I have caller ID too, but these %$#&^ call when I'm busy, away from the phone, & I have to stop what I'm doing just to make sure it's not someone I want or need to talk to. This a.m. it was one that just said "out of area", no # ID, so I can't even report them...

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Getting my finger caught in the swining door of one of the undercounter garbage cans at work.

Someone mowed over the electrical cord of the filter for my brand new pool I bought last week. I am livid.

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Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

That ^^^ should be cheap and easy to repair AND not hard to find the culprite.

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You're right... it should be easy to splice back together. But I'm gonna go complain to the people who run this place as soon as they are there when I get home from work.

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Si à travers nos veines coule encore le sang...
Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
Si dans les voiles du large souffle encore le vent...
Y'a jamais eu de Grand Dérangement.

Splice HELL!
You said it was for a pool and happened with a mower. I'm assuming it is outdoor application. You want a complete new cable reinstalled AT THE CONNECTIONS with weather tight fittings. (Still cheap as hell) You may not want somebody with a pocket knife and a roll of electrical tape making a 'repair' for outdoor conductors.

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2 weeks ago we had an owner come in with an emergency. He had 2 Dachs that he left tied outside (he fell asleep for 4 hours). When we woke up and remembered the dogs, he found them all tangled up together in their cords. The male had strangled to death and the female was barely alive. She came in and her body temp was a good bit below normal, couldn't walk, was unresponsive, and we put her on IV fluids immediately. The owner felt horrible (as he should!). She was hospitalized and sent home after a few days....

This week, she came back in. Her owner noticed that she had developed a black spot on her hip that seemed to be getting larger. When he was told to bring her in, he said he would just "keep an eye on it." About 5 days later, when she was finally brought in it was HORRIBLE. I saw her in the waiting room (briefly) and saw a black stripe running the full length of her side. It was a quick glance and I thought maybe it was road rash from being hit by a car.

Wednesday morning: I arrived to do boarding. When I saw her in the hospital cage I was floored. She was wrapped from shoulders to hip in bandage. Blood had soaked through it and she smelled awful (I call it the "death smell."). The doctor came in later that morning so that she and I could take care of her wounds. I almost threw up when she took off the bandages (and I have a pretty strong stomach). This dog's ENTIRE side, from shoulder to hip and from spine to just above her underside was skinless. There aren't words to describe this dog's injuries. I meant to take pictures of her but she was picked up before I got time to. The edge where there was no skin meeting with skin that was left was black. She also had a line (about 1/2" wide and the length of her body) on the other side. The doctor was able to flush under her skin via holes where the tissue was dying. By the next day, the black line was thicker. The doctor said the smell was from all the dead and dying skin tissue. She would need her wounds debrided (we cleaned with a Water Pic to remove dead tissue) twice a day for the next 4 weeks. She had already had surgery to remove large portions of dead tissue and I suspect she'll have to go through that again. the doctor thinks she will lose all the skin from her head down to her legs and tail. The owner came and picker her up yesterday with instructions on how to care for her. Considering what he has already caused, I will be surprised if this critter makes it. To be honest, I think she should have been euthanized rather than be put through this. We aren't sure of what caused it but the top 2 possibilities are:

1. The cord was so tight around her body for such a long time that blood flow was restricted from getting around to the skin tissues
2. He used a heating pad and placed her directly on it. If she was as weak as she was when she came in, she wouldn't have been able to move herself off of it, causing burns.

I tried to find some pics online the kind of show what she looked like. She looked MUCH worse than the pics I could find.

Burned skin: http://www.all-creatures.org/ha/jikken/dogBurned.html

We also started to clean her teeth. We stopped when we thought that the plaque was the only thing keeping them from falling out. You could actually see the root of her teeth, through to the other side. See the bottom pic at this page: http://www.veterinarydentalcenter.com/periodontal.htm

This dog is young. She is 5 years old and not spayed...what a wonderful owner.

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I forgot to add...

When all this first happened he said he felt guilt. When he brought her in looking like a burn victim, he said he didn't feel guilty anymore...WTF?!?!??!

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This is one of those cases where I agree, the animal should have been put down and the owner tied up in a sack and drowned. Now granted with a larger dog I feel you lay down the law on the spot, but a little dog like you keep pampered and spoiled like a lap cat. There is no excuse for any animal to have that happen.

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WTF indeed! Some people are beyond belief!

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Yeah, when I saw him walk by I wanted to punch him in the head (and that's the very LEAST I wanted to do to him). Despite being in so much pain, that little dog is a GOOD dog!

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Just Like That The Taste The Pool of Pleasure Room 207 Park and Ride Til Death An Invitation Movie Night Sister's Shower


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His story stunk from the beginning. "he fell asleep for 4 hours" Bullshit!

You want to see somebody that can inflict that kind of treatment and "not feel guilty"? Send that owner to me.

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That's kind of a surprise after all the dog has been through. I can think of a lot of my animals over the years that were closer to the mean when they were sick or injured.. Kind of par for the course when you can't explain that what you have to do will be uncomfortable but will make them feel better.

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