My poor lad, the bonkers Bichon Frise, is sick ..

Holy sh*t Cosmonaut I had a hard time trying to digest all that without either getting choked up or really angry - a bit of both I think. Others have probably said it better but just look after them both and pass on my thoughts & love mate. Sometimes things seem to pile on when you are down, but I hope that they turn to better times soon
 
I took my dog to the vet last week, they gave me pain killers to keep him comfortable ‘until it’s time’ - gutted.
I am so sorry to read this news, Newy. I really am ... I hope you're managing OK and he's comfortable as we speak with what you have been given by the vet. Sending my best to you.

Massive thanks to you all again who posted since I wrote yesterday. My Mother is getting up and about more finally, and I am just taking my time as I say with my boy, we've been out and sat in the garden today before a short walk while it wasn't too busy as he did his business. Lousy weather otherwise, though. So he is very bored!

I am pleased with the pace the wounds have been healing without wanting to speak too soon, it really is remarkable ..., particularly the one that was the deepest of the lot, just a huge puncture wound but aye, the next step is getting him smartened up a bit when he is up to it as the emergency vets had to shave most his torso and stuff as you can imagine getting straight to the wounds to assess and treat. Grooming a Bichon is a chore daily as they are on a normal day!

Was booked in for a full groom in a week or two but don't think I am going to be able to manage that just yet unless she is game for doing him when there are no other dogs left in and can work around the injuries... I just don't want to stress him out too much yet with anything like that so each day as it comes, and we will see.

To think it has only just been over a week since is unreal. Feels like a lifetime ago .. so have to take it steady.

Thanks again to all of you and UTFB X
 
I am so sorry to read this news, Newy. I really am ... I hope you're managing OK and he's comfortable as we speak with what you have been given by the vet. Sending my best to you.

Massive thanks to you all again who posted since I wrote yesterday. My Mother is getting up and about more finally, and I am just taking my time as I say with my boy, we've been out and sat in the garden today before a short walk while it wasn't too busy as he did his business. Lousy weather otherwise, though. So he is very bored!

I am pleased with the pace the wounds have been healing without wanting to speak too soon, it really is remarkable ..., particularly the one that was the deepest of the lot, just a huge puncture wound but aye, the next step is getting him smartened up a bit when he is up to it as the emergency vets had to shave most his torso and stuff as you can imagine getting straight to the wounds to assess and treat. Grooming a Bichon is a chore daily as they are on a normal day!

Was booked in for a full groom in a week or two but don't think I am going to be able to manage that just yet unless she is game for doing him when there are no other dogs left in and can work around the injuries... I just don't want to stress him out too much yet with anything like that so each day as it comes, and we will see.

To think it has only just been over a week since is unreal. Feels like a lifetime ago .. so have to take it steady.

Thanks again to all of you and UTFB X
I hope your mum is feeling better, sounds like everyone’s been through the mil and then some. There are some absolute idiots out there, the mind boggles!
 
I hope your mum is feeling better, sounds like everyone’s been through the mil and then some. There are some absolute idiots out there, the mind boggles!
She managed to have a little drive out today, mate but apparently got weak on her feet in M&S, and fortunately, someone who somehow knew she was 'the lady that was attacked' helped her back into her car with her stuff ... I am thankful to whoever that was ...

I must admit, I was asking Mum to still rest but she is one of those who is always so active and amazingly fit for her age, almost 70, and just retired from Spinal Injuries at JCUH... I decided to just let her get on with what she feels she's up to, as I stayed with the hound. She can't stand staying in the house and is out all the time, if she ain't hiking a 12-miler, she's out shopping and visiting friends/family, you know ... so she must have been climbing the walls the past week, the poor woman ...

I feel so stupid now and wish I went with her but I couldn't, with the hound

Somehow she drove home, which ain't far thankfully but she must be bonkers :ROFLMAO:

She had to see a GP at Manor House in Normanby, though, too so had to be out to have her injuries seen to again ... getting better, her arm is all banded up and cleaned. More antibiotics

To say we have all been the mill and then some is an understatement, Newy, mate ... I am still struggling to process how it all happened at once, I have even wondered if I was a Chunt in a past life:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:, and this is God's punishment ... it feels like my whole world has been flung in a blender. But I can't just moan on and on. All of us are suffering someway these days, hard to find anyone who is honestly absolutely fine, there is a situation everywhere you turn .. especially with the state of living in general and people being so poor, a useless Govt losing control of the country means more idiots roam and crime goes up and up and up

I am absolutely knackered ... I am glad my Mother is up and about quicker than I thought, though. Can't let these idiots who caused this nightmare stop you in your tracks. Got to keep soldiering on. If someone told me a week ago both Mum and the Hound would be as they are now, I'd have thought they were pulling me leg!! ...

I am so proud of the crazy Bichon Frise, day by day he is coming back to himself. Some wounds opened up again but were cleaned out with saline and they are more just fresh scratches, now. It is crazy how the serious lacerations have mended so well but now these ones are doing his head in, and now he can reach them ... I heard dogs have something in their saliva that helps them when they are cut or something.

I don't trust that though as never researched it and he's on his broad-spectrum meds anyway and anti-inflammatory. As my insurance is knackered I am going to have to get to the PDSA with him somehow this week to let the vets have a look, and see if we can get any more pain relief. If only I drove, but typically, never have and I am thirty bloody six .. shameful. Hah

Anyway, on another note -

I dunno why, when I watched the presser with Leo earlier for us as interim coach .. it didn't half inspire me. I have been glass half-empty more than ever the past week. That guy always gets a smile out of me. Belongs with us Boro lot and I hope whoever comes in next, Leo keeps his job here ..

I would absolutely love it if we went on a great run of results under Leo, but I think we've already decided who is taking the job ..

Christ, what would I do without football and the Boro, despite what we have all been through as a club for too long, now

Hope we can take a sledgehammer to all this negativity in general and a Karanka-esque period is on the cards .. we are due some luck though sadly, the damage done in losing points under Wilder this season, we have got to be grateful for just survival as it stands.

If someone told me a month ago I would be saying I am looking forward to next season, I'd say they were nuts!

We will get there, together. X
 
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She managed to have a little drive out today, mate but apparently got weak on her feet in M&S, and fortunately, someone who somehow knew she was 'the lady that was attacked' helped her back into her car with her stuff ...

I must admit, I was asking her to still rest but she is one of those who is always so active and amazingly fit for her age .... I decided to just let her get on with what she feels she's up to, as I stayed with the hound. She can't stand staying in the house and is out all the time, she must have been climbing the walls the past week, poor woman ...

I feel so stupid now and wish I went with her but I couldn't, with the hound

Somehow she drove home, which ain't far thankfully but she must be bonkers :ROFLMAO:

She had to see a GP at Manor House in Normanby, though, too so had to be out to have her injuries seen to again ... getting better, her arm is all banded up and cleaned. More antibiotics

To say we have all been the mill and then some is an understatement, Newy, mate ... I am still struggling to process how it all happened at once, I have even wondered if I was a Chunt in a past life, and this is God's punishment ... it feels like my whole world has been flung in a blender. But I can't just moan on and on. All of us are suffering someway these days, hard to find anyone who is honestly absolutely fine, there is a situation everywhere you turn .. especially with the state of living in general and people being so poor, a useless Govt losing control of the country means more idiots roam and crime goes up and up and up

I am absolutely knackered ... I am glad my Mother is up and about quicker than I thought, though. Can't let these idiots who caused this nightmare stop you in your tracks. Got to keep soldiering on.

I dunno why, when I watched the presser with Leo earlier for us as interim coach .. it didn't half inspire me. I have been glass half-empty more than ever the past week. That guy always gets a smile out of me. Belongs with us Boro lot and I hope whoever comes in next, Leo keeps his job here ..

I would absolutely love it if we went on a great run of results under Leo, but I think we've already decided who is taking the job ..

Christ, what would I do without football and the Boro, despite what we have all been through as a club for too long, now

Hope we can take a sledgehammer to all this negativity in general and a Karanka-esque period is on the cards .. we are due some luck though sadly, the damage done in losing points under Wilder this season, we have got to be grateful for just survival as it stands.

If someone told me a month ago I would be saying I am looking forward to next season, I'd say they were nuts!

We will get there, together. X
Yeah, looking forward to the Leo and Cattermole dream team!! That video from Leo was superb!!
 
Yeah, looking forward to the Leo and Cattermole dream team!! That video from Leo was superb!!
It was, I love Leo, and I hope the lads manage a win for him tonight. :love:

Shame we're missing Jones, mind. Will be interesting to see what the team is ... I am going to go for 2-1, Muniz & Watmore (y)
 
Thought I would give you all an update on this, as it is coming up to three weeks to the day the attack happened, later today.

My hound has made remarkable progress. His neck injuries/inflammation and swelling reduced so quickly and his wounds healed and still are, faster than anything I have ever seen. Life is fully back in the lad like I would never have believed if someone told me this is how he would be in this space of time, afterward. He really is a little miracle. I am over the moon but still, we're taking it easy ... treating him to a walk around Guisborough Priory way tomorrow, as have to collect some new specs from the town, so he'll be coming with me :D

My mother's wounds are starting to heal a lot better and she has some appointments scheduled to repair ligament and bone damage in her arm/hand that was hurt in the attack

But overall, if someone told me this is how they'd both be just three weeks later, I'd have said you're crazy ... don't want to tempt fate but they're both fighting fit and back to their normal selves just about. What a speedy recovery!

I feel so lucky and grateful. Thanks to everyone who posted at the time. Back to walkies again from tomorrow for the lad!

(oh, and have him booked in with a groomer in a few days to tidy him up as the vets had to ruin his coat shaving him to hell to access all the wounds at the time .... poor lad looks like he has been in a tumble drier at the minute!:ROFLMAO:)
 
Thought I would give you all an update on this, as it is coming up to three weeks to the day the attack happened, later today.

My hound has made remarkable progress. His neck injuries/inflammation and swelling reduced so quickly and his wounds healed and still are, faster than anything I have ever seen. Life is fully back in the lad like I would never have believed if someone told me this is how he would be in this space of time, afterward. He really is a little miracle. I am over the moon but still, we're taking it easy ... treating him to a walk around Guisborough Priory way tomorrow, as have to collect some new specs so he'll be coming with me :D

My mother's wounds are starting to heal a lot better and she has some appointments scheduled to repair ligament and bone damage in her arm/hand that was hurt in the attack

But overall, if someone told me this is how they'd both be just three weeks later, I'd have said you're crazy ... don't want to tempt fate but they're both fighting fit and back to their normal selves just about. What a speedy recovery!

I feel so lucky and grateful. Thanks to everyone who posted at the time. Back to walkies again from tomorrow for the lad!

(oh, and have him booked in with a groomer in a few days to tidy him up as the vets had to ruin his coat shaving him to hell to access all the wounds at the time .... poor lad looks like he has been in a tumble drier at the minute!:ROFLMAO:)
Rock on Mum & Bichon Frise
Glad things have improved Cosmonaut - you deserve the break mate
 
Rock on Mum & Bichon Frise
Glad things have improved Cosmonaut - you deserve the break mate
Thank you very much, mate! Indeed, a good break would be nice ...

Will be nice to finally collect the newly updated frames I ordered from the store just before this madness happened, so I can have some eyesight back ... an exciting weekend ahead!! :ROFLMAO:

Maybe a surprise Boro win, too ... maybe getting too optimistic there, though! We will see ..

Cheers mate
 
Another celebratory "woof" from me and give your mam a hug. That's an order.
A woof! That is from the lad .. just had him out around Guisborough Priory .. lovely. And I will do just that, Muttley (y) Thanks so much, mate.

Cheers fellas

Wish I hadn't checked the scoreline and put on ifollow as I have just got in, mind :confused: .. Good grief, we are in some bother. Hear it should be 4 or 5 if not for Steffen.

At least there are more important things than footy in life, but this is grim.
 
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