Tinsel's Journey

Tinsel is safe and sound and home. He wasn't excited to see me, just wanted to get the heck out of that place. After about an hour of being home he remembered he hadn't eaten and started looking for food. I gave him a few pieces at 4pm and then just gave him his normal dinner at 6:30. So far he is leaving his incisions alone, has had a normal bowel movement and is acting normal. I was disappointed to see that they didn't cut back his toenails but instead just trimmed them. The tech didn't want to make his toenails bleed. I explained to her that they needed to go back and now I wouldn't be able to do anything about them as it would be painful to do it without anesthetic. At least I wasn't charged - since he had had them done at Meaghan's on Friday I doubt that the tech trimmed much at all. Oh well.
The sutures on his scrotum came out without any difficulty so I doubt that he will bother with that. Now we wait until next week to get results of the thyroid panel. Tomorrow is horse vet day and then Friday is farrier. Been a pretty expensive week what with our son getting married last Saturday as well. If you see an old lady at the end of a driveway selling pencils, that might be me!

 

He licked his IV and dew claw sites a bit overnight. Not too bad but I'll be watching. The whole surgery thing ended up being a last minute rush when the stitches became known so it was Kevin doing the surgery instead of Carol. Kevin hadn't seen him before and it was one of those "too many fingers in the pie" situations where I talked to two of the techs about cutting back the quicks but not the one that actually was involved in the surgery- hence job not done right. Disappointing to be sure but not much I can do. He is now living through the invasion of the "cousins" Gem and Connor. They are here until Sunday while their parents are off diving shipwrecks in Tobermory. It will be interesting to see if Tinsel gets over his aversion to barky dogs as Gem is a talker, especially when playing. He does think she is tooo cute though so he might just learn to ignore her - shall we say noisier moments!

 

They have increased the penalty for inhumane treatment in Quebec but not soon enough for the monsters that ran the mill Tin came from. They got banned from owning or operating a breeding facility for 2 years. Had the seizure happened a couple of months later they could have been banned for life. However, the son can own and breed dogs under his name, he wasn't an owner of record so wasn't named in the charges, so really, it won't help much. I think they also got a $10K fine - big wow eh???
All we can do is educate as many people as we can, lobby for a ban on sales of puppies in pet stores, spay/neuter our dogs and encourage those around us to do the same, support rescues and be prepared to write letters to our governments asking for better legislation that gives the humane society more teeth when they investigate these places.
Tinsel was lucky. He got out and has a chance to live. Thousands of others still need our voices.

 

I think Tinsel is ready for the "cousins" to go home. Being the quiet little soul that he is he is finding all the commotion disconcerting. Gem wants to play ALL THE TIME and while it amuses the heck out of Dave and me, Tin just wants to go back to laying in the family room while we watch TV. I will be really surprised if it turns out that his thyoid is functioning properly. He's like a little old man. Only goes far enough to be able to go and lay in the sun unless there is food involved. Really looking forward to getting the results of his bloodwork.

 

No, he's been like this all along - maybe a little moreso since the heat but not appreciably so.