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sorry merc , you rest and tell your brother
to give you a break.
heal fast young man
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Oh no Merc - kisses on your paw and a speedy
recovery. I am always so nervous that one of
the dogs will hurt themselves on the beer
bottles that the students love to crash
against the rocks. I'm always picking up
after them but still.....
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Oh Merc, were so sorry to hear about your
cut. Get wells soon! We hope that your injury
heals quickly and you back to full speed in
no time.
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Poor Mercury!
Those jackrabbits can be clever!
Wishing Merc a speedy and complete
recovery.
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Poor baby. I am so sorry Merc. I hate to
see you in pain. Maybe mom will give you
some extra, extra, extra love.
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Sending hugs to Mercury. Z has had one or
two leg cuts, but fortunately none through a
ligament. Best wishes for a speedy recovery,
so hard to enforce 'light duties' for Mercury
but not Tag.
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Oh, Mercury, I'm so sorry. Luckily, you have
a SuperMom taking care of you -- she can rush
you to urgent care, and still find time to
post a gorgeous shot of you with your new
"sock".
Dear Merc, Sounds like the SPCR group
collectively had a rough weekend. You
wouldn't *believe* what the vet did to me on
Friday. Feel better! --Pete
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Get well soon, Merc.
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Awwww, be brave, Mercury!
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Oooh - my heart is with you !!
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Ohhh, poor Mercury. I hope you feel better
soon!
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Sorry to learn of Merc's injury. Glad it was
fairly minor. Good luck keeping him quiet for
2 weeks - you'll need it!
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I'm always afraid of that , it's a miracle
Holly has not got cut yet , {{Hugs}}} to
Mercury .
If you have time to start another Explore
Discussion for #3 I would appreciate it
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oh, this is heart-rending! :-(
Sending love and get-well wishes your way,
Merc.
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oh, no MERC!!! Those rotten jackrabbits!
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Oh poor baby...........get well soon!
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(((healing hugs))) mercury xoxo
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ohh, not the ligaments - warm healing wishes
to you Mercury!
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Dear Merc:
Sometimes the meds they want to shove down
our throats are the best things since sliced
bread. I have faint, but fond, memories from
something I was forced to swallow when I had
my mast cell tumor removed.
Sweet dreams, 'Bro.
XOXOX,
Mike
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Get well Mercury.
Love,McKinley & Pasha
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Oh no, So sorry Merc. And Mom, best wishs
to you to keep him quiet!
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Ouch. Mercury :-(
Poor baby he's had a rough spell: Momma
too.
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Oh! Poor baby! Lots of healing thoughts your
way, Merc!
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oh, poor baby! Hope the healing is fast!
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oh my goodness, poor baby! love and hugs and
kisses from us! heal well and soon!!
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Sorry to hear this Karen! Poor Merc!
Sending healing thoughts from Holland, an
let's all hope for the best!
--x--
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Poor baby! Best wishes for a quick and
complete recovery.
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Oh no!! Spencer had something similar happen
recently. Luckily it wasn't as serious, but I
know how frustrated Merc must be feeling. Get
well soon!
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Oh Boy Merc, for now you will have to chase
jack rabbits in your dreams, where no doubt
you will be the winner. I feel for your mom
trying to keep you resting when all you and
Tag wanna do is play... Speedy recovery Merc,
and I hope you and Tag listen to your mom.
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Poor Merc!!! A cut foot is not fun fro you
or your mom. I hope it heals quickly and all
works fine with it.
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it's a dogs life, hope see recovers fast
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How will I ever get to go running for the
next few weeks? My main motivator is broken!
Let's wrap him in bubble wrap until we go on
vacation, please -- he needs to be in good
shape for wilderness!
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Ouch, poor Mercury ... you've had a rough
year. I hope you are feeling better soon
(and hopefully no more emergency vet visits,
ok?)
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Thanks Everyone for your healing wishes :-)
Mercury is doing much better as of this
morning. Yesterday, he was very gorked from
the pain meds and sedation and anesthesia
that were required for the suturing. He
didn't pee for almost 24hrs despite me
carrying him outside just about every 2-3
hrs. I have no idea why besides that he's
recently been more neurotic about me watching
him and looming over him getting samples. Not
knowing any physical reason why he wasn't
peeing, I can only imagine that in his
drugged out mind he saw all this carrying
around as some sort of torture.
Anyway as of 6:30am he peed. Yahoo! And
after yet another meal (KT be sure to tell
Sirene that we eat 6 times daily now with all
these meds) we crashed and slept hard. A few
hours sleep, removal of the bandage, a bit of
three-legged hobbling just to move around a
bit, more meds and now Merc is back to sleep
peacefully again (just a bit gorked from his
tramadol). :-)
Strike that sleeping peacefully, delivery
at the front door and we're under attack!!!
Sheesh, he's slipping and sliding on the wood
floor, fortunately no bleeding and he's proud
of himself for scaring off that UPS truck.
"Get back in your bed and stay there
you doofus!"
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We just got back in town, and saw this! Poor
Merc! And Poor Karen! And Tag, while play
time is affected.
Seriously, we're hoping for an easy and
fast recovery.
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Huge buckets of sympathy to you and
Merc...poor guy. Get better soon.
Karen, if you'd like any of Toby's
tiring-out-Tag services, just let us know!
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Awww, poor little guy. Hope he feels better
soon.
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Ouchie! So sorry abut Merc. I know the next
few weeks will be torture for you all. Molly
says if it will help, Tag can come stay with
us!
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Awww, I just noticed this. Merc, it's not
been an easy summer for you, has it? Well,
Bijou and I are sending all kinds of healing
thoughts your way, and we're sharing
spiritual strength with your mom and Tag too!
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Good to hear Mercury's on the up, he'll be
chasing the postman in no time!
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oh god!!! this sucks, karen!!! matea took
13 stitches to her main pad on her left front
years ago ... sliced wide open and gushing
out blood in the middle of a hike over an
hour from the cars. thank god for the
emergency kit i always carry.
but at least she didn't get into any
ligaments!! this is definitely gonna take
some healing time ... and of course, some tlc
from mom and bro.
big hugs.
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Hope you are feeling better Merc!!!
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 re: peeing. OMG, we went thru the same thing
this weekend. Pete would not pee for 24+ hrs
after his surgery, so like a worry wart I
called the vet and asked about it (she had
said that "difficulty urinating" is
a warning sign for neutering procedures, and
i figured "not peeing" is similar
to "difficulty urinating"). luckily
the dam broke and he's doing great now.
{{hugs}} to all of you!
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Oh poor Merc-baby..... :9( ..... and you
are safe from UPS even in his gorked state.
What a good boy.
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So sorry to hear about this. Must be very
painful indeed.
I am sending healing thoughts accross the
ocean. Get wel soon, Merc!
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adding my good thoughts and wishes for
mercury, too!
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Oooh nooooo! :(
Healing thoughts & prayers for speedy
mend, Merc.
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Hugs from me and lots of healing licks and
slobber from Scully & Stryder!
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So glad he's doing better. Looking at him in
the photo above really does make me feel bad
for him. Now you've got the hard job of
keeping him quiet while it heals. Maybe you
need to put a sign up outside shooing away
all delivery trucks until Mercury is all
better, lol!
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(KT be sure to tell Sirene that we eat 6
times daily now with all these meds)
Check your front porch -- I think Sirene
and her little hobo stick are out there,
battling with Thomas for control until you
let her in ;)
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 Mercury is doing much better. I expect that
tomorrow I'll be in for the beginnings of the
guilt trip that will be associated with
"no, you can't play with Tag",
" no, you can't run up the stairs",
"no, you have to keep the leash
on", "no, you can't dig in the
sand", "no....[fill in the blank
with a million other no things]"
 can't do that... I'm awaiting my 85mm f1.4
lens! :-)
 weird these poodles and their strange
behaviors, eh? Glad to see Pete is doing well
post surgery!
and to ALL: thank you for your well wishes. I have
applied all kisses and hugs you've detailed
directly onto Merc. :-)
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Aww, poor sweet boy. Glad he's at least not
having to wear a giant cone-head.
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Get well soon! You can tell him that his
injury made Explore! He's famous :o).
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Merc continues to do really well. He's all
done with his antibiotics... phew back to 4x
per day feeding instead of 6x. I'll take his
sutures out tomorrow or Friday. I'm letting
him do a little straight jogging and he can
jump into the truck, just not out of the
truck. He's going a bit stir crazy from lack
of exercise.
Tag is getting fat. ;-) Not really, but
he's probably heavier than he's ever been
before. He wants his brother back from
enforced rest.
 Mercury would absolutely die if I ever put a
cone on him. He's too good for a cone.
Although I had a sock on his foot while he
was gorked on pain meds, as soon as he was
off the drugs the sock came off and I told
him one time only not to lick his foot. He
minded. Unlike his brother who had to wear a
t-shirt for a tiny hot-spot, Merc wouldn't
dream of being overtly naughty.
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Soooo good to hear that Merc is doing really
well. And what a sweet boy to be so obedient
to his mom!
* blows kisses across the ocean to this
sweet injured poodle *
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Empyrean Animals (invite only) - post 1 award
2 in the pool, and we'd love to have your photo added to
the group.
My poor little one!
So glad he is healthy and can heal fast!
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Oh poor little guy. What a pathetic look he
has going here. Hope he is ok soon.
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awe. my dog knows that blue tape all to
well. glad he's better.
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aw... is he ok now?
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Thank you for the link and oh how horrible!!
I'm so glad he healed so well.
Can I ask you something? I have a
(irrational?) fear of Moto getting hurt when
we're out and about. When this happened, how
did you get him a) to the car b) somewhere
where you could get him to the vet (assuming
you didn't have your car with you)? I'm such
a freak, that I worry that Moto will get hurt
when we're out hiking and my wimpy ass won't
be able to carry his 81 lbs back to the car
(because HELLO? I'm sure I can't carry a
squirmy, hurt, 81 lb. malinois anywhere, much
less 2 miles).
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I don't think it's irrational to have a fear
that means you plan ahead. In this case we
were less than 200 yds from the truck. He
walked himself back, he didn't want to leave
the rabbits! The parking lot was a bloodbath
because his heart rate was so high he was
gushing blood. I always travel with a first
aid kit, towels and a 5 gallon water
container. I soaked off the worst of the mud
and gunk then pressure wrapped him for the 10
mile drive home where I shaved him to look
for a foreign body. When it became apparent
that the bleeding wasn't going to stop, I
wrapped him up in gauze again and took him to
the ER.
When I'm out hiking I have some very basic
things I always take in my fanny pack:
A slip lead -- for quick capture and can be
used as a muzzle, to tie a splint or as a
tourniquet in a pinch.
A small roll of vet wrap
A few squares of gauze
Benedryl
Baggies
Everything else for treatment stays in the
car in my first aid kit.
I figure those few things, in addition to
spare clothing from me if it's a bigger wound
-- a bra is pretty flexible as bandaging and
a sock or two can absorb a lot of mess. I
travel with a cell phone too. Sometimes
signal in the hills is spotty, but a 411 call
later and I'll know the closest vet ER and
can call and tell them I'm on my way.
I figure the risks of hiking and playing
and whatever we do that the boyz find fun,
are far outweighed by the joy they have doing
it. Some common sense and a level head will
see you through most anything we might find
in our local hiking forays.
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yup, i always carry a first aid kit too.
pain in the fanny-pack, but it's come in
handy a bunch of times ... especially once
when matea ended up needing 13 stitches to
her main pad on her front leg. that was a
major bleeder!
let me add one REALLY handy thing to your
kit there, karen, that paid off BIG time
during that hike and several times since: a
good dog boot (or two!). since it's almost
always foot injuries, a good dog boot to slip
over all that bandaging is super handy, plus
the velcro strap helps with pressure to stop
blood flow as well.
when matea was injured, at 65 lbs, i could
carry her only so far across the back of my
shoulders ... we were an hour from the car
... well, in fact we weren't but i was hiking
with boys and they kept getting us lost. ;)
but with the boot being waterproof and acting
as a bit of a tourniquet she was able to at
least put some pressure on the foot and use
to hobble on, and didn't get soaked as we
went through the marshy bits.
i always carry at least two boots with me
now ... that way even if it's just a small
injury to one of the dogs, we can wrap, boot
and keep hiking.
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