eard on the outer boundaries of the property. . . About a minute later, we heard a frightening screech and yelp (much louder and sharper than previous screeches when Bejuca has stepped on her) and we took off running and looking. . .We couldn't go through the jungle, so we ran down to where a back road that rings the hotel property is at. . . After a couple of minutes, Mini-B came bounding out of the jungle and started running toward us. . . As she got closer, I noticed something was amiss, and the entire front of her left side was covered in blood. She was dragging her face along the ground, trying to wipe it off. Lucy quickly scooped her up, and we took her to the house, where we rinsed her off.
There was a 2-inch gash down her nose, and she had lost quite a bit of blood. Luckily, after we washed her off and held a towel on her, the bleeding pretty much stopped.
We called the vet and headed up to Quesada. Mini-B kept wanting to go to sleep (th
e vet said that this was because she lost a fair amount of blood), but Lucy kept waking her up. We got to the vet, and he predicted 1-2 stitches, and wasn't concerned. We went to run some errands while Mini-B was stitched up. When we came back, the doc said he ended up putting 4-5 stitches in, as the wound was much larger than it appeared. He took pictures with his i-Phone and showed them to us (kind of gruesome).Now, as you can see, Mini-B has a silver nose, some stitches, and another halo. She goes back in a week to get the stitches out.
We're theorizing that an iguana got ahold of her, as it's one long, deep scratch. Anot
her dog would have left more damage, we're guessing. And Lucy has spotted an iguana in that general direction the past couple of mornings.Sadly, Mini-B probably hasn't learned much from this episode. Later this afternoon, when she had more spunk, she followed Lucy down to tree house no. 2 and Lucy had to grab her from going into the jungle again.
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hope the dogs are feeling better!!!
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