berkanna wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2007 at 9:19am:


Berkanna is right about the bite.  It can cause a lot of problems.  Cats have a LOT of bacteria in their mouths and bites from them can result in problems such as Berkanna indicated.  Worse yet, if any infection from that bite gets into the blood stream, it could get worse than that and cause sepsis.  That could kill you.  Also, make sure your tetnus shot is up to date.

Berkanna, let me tell you, once I was holding a dog for a fellow vet for taking blood.  The dog tried to move but I did not let it.  She thought it was going to move and so compensated for a movement that never happened.  She ran the needle up through the vein of the dog, into the front of my thumb and out the nail side.  When one works with animals, there are always risks.  Even the nicest of animals can surprise you. Once I was examining an animal when the vet tech put her hand on the dogs back.  The dog turned instantly and bit me.  I got 18 stitches along the bone under the eye and and 7 along the crease of my eyelid.  I was lucky I did not sustain any injury to the eye itself.  Plastic surgery a year later fixed the whole problem.   The poor dog showed definate distress as soon as it had bitten me.  After getting the stitches I examined the dog because I was sure something must have happened to make it hurt me.  Turned out it had a disc problem and the tech put her hand right on the hurting part.  The dog felt incredible pain and protected itself.

You see, I knew this dog really well.  I had known Joker for 10 years.  He stayed with me whenever the owner was out of town and had even lived with me for 6 months when the owner was too sick to care for him.  Joker would never have hurt me intentionally. 

K, watch out for your hubbies kitty.  She has a mean little look.  AND TAKE CARE OF THAT BITE!

I know about animals snapping from pain! When I was living in maine, one of our dogs got loose and met up with a porcupine(sp?). I had to hold him while mom pulled out the spines(didn't have money for the vet, who wasn't a very good example of the breed anyway) even with a rope around his mouth to keep it mostly closed( had to get in to pull a few of the spines, poor baby) he tried to snap at me and mom once or twice.. I'm pretty sure he wasn't actually trying to connect though... this dog had pretty much perfect aim ( could bite a speeding fly right out of the air(until the time he caught a bee))


Heh... RTG, my first comment after getting over the shock of a large black thing attached to my hand... *in a mournful voice* "I'm gonna become a were-cat:(. " *grin* "Hey, I wonder if I'll get a tail?!" Then the pain set in... and there was much yelping.
And I've been watching for signs of blood poisoning and serious infection.. I think it's a little infected, sadly... need more cleaning and neosporin-ing. *does that then gets back to typing* I am also taking an antibiotic to make sure. Kiraela does not want to die*.

Funny animal antics: this morning when I let Voodou out of the bathroom, she noticed her food bowl was empty, and the bin storing it was too... she walked over, knocked the bin over, hissed, and glared at me. At least the cat knows what she wants.

Also, yesterday, morning Emma noticed I was injured, sniffed it gently, then attacked Voodou. My sweet baby, who doesn't like hurting anything less annoying than fleas. I love that cat.

I thought about it, and I agree with you joeydog.. I hadn't thought about the possibility of making antibiotic resistant bacteria... I only took 2, hopefully that didn't harm anything. Anyway, the wounds are almost healed and the infection has cleared up.

Also, last night I we went shopping and I got a nice boar bristle brush. I used it the first time this morning to smooth out my hair and I'm quite pleased with how it worked. I had originally intended to buy a new hair toy, but didn't see any I liked much(I was looking for one particular style that they were out of), So I got the brush instead.

Well,mine didn't go all the way through my hair either, it was fairly effective near the scalp, and down to about my chin, but at about chin length, it seemed to not work quite as well. still far better than my synthetic bristle brush did, though.

And hey, the non dye damaged hair has finally reached chin length! Heh, thinking about it, it's almost as if the BBB was like, screw this, that hair's too damaged for me to even try, i"ll just stick to working on healthy hair.

in response to the BBB talk-i have one too now and i like it for smoothing and giving shine. i detangle with a wide tooth comb, or my fingers if wet. i have a plastic comb, but may be looking into a wooden one soon.

Well, I'm thinking about going across the street and having Ms. Jo trim my hair again... I can't make the ends manageable! I'm going to try a last ditch effort tonight(EVOO) and if that doesn't work, I'm going to start my two week wait. *always a big fan of the "wait two weeks to decide major things"(except "band-aid or stitches" type descisions, of course!) school of thought. 

Odd dream last night... I was kidnapped by the people from "what not to wear" and forced to be on the show at gun point... they shredded all my favorite clothes and forced me to wear pink blouses with color co-ordinating pink paisley mini skirts. That rather annoyed me. What was worse though, was when the hair stylist demanded I let them cut my hair into a trendy bob-like-object. When he came near me with scissors I started screaming and flailing like some wild bobcat. When he still didn't get the point, I grabbed his sissors and stabbed him .. Then I took the credit card they give their victims to go buy new clothes, and bought medieval reproduction dresses with it.

Also, I wish my guy were more trainable. Laundry goes in the basket. or in a pile next to the basket. Not in the middle of the floor. Expecially when it's so soaked in sweat that if we had wood floors, I'd have to worry about the shirt-shaped equivalent of cup rings.   

LMAO, it is true, training a dog is much easier than a man.   I still have my dogs...the hubby is questionable...as in he is not living here right now...he is living with his mommy.  She screwed him up, she can have him until he learns...which I doubt he will.  My dogs are well trained after 15 years...but I think I could train a puppy faster than the hubby who went through 2 bankrupcies while we were together (5 years).  Thank God I did the prenupt and own the house, car, etc...all on my own.

That is quite the dream K.  It certainly tops the one I had last night which I thought was pretty drastic.  I will not bore you.

JD

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