We got a frantic phone call from our daughter last night. One of our cockers came in from outside with blood on his ears. This happened in the late night and she wasn’t real sure what she should do. She relayed the story of both dogs going outside into the backyard like they do all evening long. This time black dog came back in but brown dog didn’t. Soon black dog wanted back out. He seem excited. He went out and then came back in but still no brown dog. She was getting concerned that brown dog wouldn’t come in when finally he did and low and behold, he had blood on him. She checked him out and there appeared to be a couple of bites on his ears. I told her to trim the fur off his ears so she could get a good look at the wounds and clean him up as best she could and apply some hydrogen peroxide. We discussed what could have happened. Did he meet with a coyote in the backyard? We have seen one there but if he was attacked why didn’t he yelp? We were all very concerned. We told her to take him by the vet in the morning and to let us know what the vet thought.
It seems that the little bugger is just fine. The injuries to his ears appear to be scrapes and the consensus is that, believe it or not, our little brown dog probably caught a bunny or some other such critter and the critter scratched his ears trying to get away. We haven’t told our daughter to go out in the backyard to look for the poor creature so we may never really know what happened but that seems to be a more likely story then him being attacked. Who would have thought that either one of those dogs would ever managed to actually catch something. They are fast, don’t get me wrong, but they aren’t always the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. Maybe they chased down a rat (Yuck). I would prefer to think that than those cute bunnies. The rats tend to be slower and more confused than those wild bunnies. Let’s just hope that he hasn’t unleashed his inner Cujo.
