I was about to start on my final project for my motion design class last night when I got a beyond frantic call from my mom. She said that Livy and Judy had gotten in a fight and Judy was ripped open in at least 5 different places! Why must you scare me like that! I live about 45 minutes from her house depending on traffic and I was beside myself. She needed me to come in because she STILL doesn’t know her way around Missoula and she’s lived here for almost 4 years. So Ryan and I got in the car and headed out there.
I got there and she tried to get up but where her leg bends up by her body was totally ripped open on the left front side. She saw me walk in and started wagging her tail which was also hurt, and then stopped because she was in too much pain. Judy loves me most because I’m the one who rescued her from the pound and she’s “my dog”, ha try telling that to my mom 
. Anyhow, we rushed her down to the 24 hour Animmal Emergency and took her in. The vet came in and said they’d have to put her out so that they could stitch up her gaping neck wonods and the ones on her tail and the worst one on her leg.
We had to leave her so we went to Denny’s and I got a chef salad and an Oreo blender blaster, great combo huh? Then we went to Super Walmart to waste time instead of going all the way out to my mom’s to wait. They called us about midnight and told us we could go in and get her. When we walked in we heard this god awful bawling. My poor Judy. The second her brought her out she quit. she had just come out of the anesthesia about 20 minutes before that and was really disoriented.
When we brought her home, Livy was locked in the bathroom away from her and Lady and Pixie were curious to see what had happened to her. Pixie and Judy are best friends and Lady is a close second to each of them. So we brough Judy into a spare bedroom and I set her up so that she was laying on one side with her hurt leg propped up. They put a drain tube in it so that the fluid that built up could drain. she was almost asleep when my mom came in and not realizing it had Livy on her heels. Livy didn’t want to hurt her, but she’s a very in your face dog and Judy was still scared about earlier. Plus Livy is about 116 pounds whereas Judy is only 64. So Judy hopped up and got all freaked out. I finally got her back down and was getting tired since it was about 2 am. I said I was going to go, so my mom went in and layed with her.
I was visiting the other dogs for a minute when I heard my mom yelling for me. I went in and Judy was crying. She saw me and stopped. So I layed with her for a minute and waited till she fell asleep again. I left the room again and within minutes my mom was yelling for me again. Judy wasn’t going to stop unless I stayed. So I stayed the night.
The next morning she woke up and was ready to play and go about her life as normal, which the vet advised against since she had stitches all over and needed to stay off of her leg. She’d run not walk from room to room and wanted to go outside without her leash which wasn’t allowed since she’d run on her leg. The vet said the night before that if she didn’t stay off of it she could end up ripping the stitches and really hurting herself since the ones on her leg are in a hard spot to keep from tearing. They said we could come and get sedatives for her so that she’d be less active during the first few days to let things heal a bit. So to make a long story short haha it’s already too long–she got back home and is her room sleeping. My mom said she was whining for me for a bit before she fell asleep. I just hope she can get over these first few days and feel better, all of those stitches have got to hurt!
And if anyone was wondering, the vet bill came to $457.48! Yikes!!
