An apple a day keeps the doctor away...

[Mike Dempsey]

This is my border terrier called Shuggie. He's only just over a year old and hasn't had a go at rats or mice yet. Tried to get a few cats when out on walks. Certainly don't have a cat crap problem in the garden or mice in the workshop since I got him last June. Havent had him ratting yet but I might do that in a wee while.

[peds]

12 hours ago, Mike Dempsey said:

This is my border terrier called Shuggie. He's only just over a year old and hasn't had a go at rats or mice yet. Tried to get a few cats when out on walks. Certainly don't have a cat crap problem in the garden or mice in the workshop since I got him last June. Havent had him ratting yet but I might do that in a wee while.

Handsome wee fella. How would you go about training to encourage ratting behaviour? I'd definitely like to move towards canine pest control instead of feline, they are so much less destructive to an ecosystem. 

 

I'm leaving hospital this morning, the wife sent me a photo of the poor hungry kitten looking dejected on the doorstep. So he's not been scared off by the ordeal, anyway. 

 

Also, I suppose my future hopes and dreams of being a hand model can be thrown in the bin.

 

[peds]

On 18/05/2022 at 23:24, youngsbury said:

 

Noble, focused, slightly-psychopathic gaze on them there. Handsome animal.

[Doug Tait]

37 minutes ago, peds said:

Handsome wee fella. How would you go about training to encourage ratting behaviour? I'd definitely like to move towards canine pest control instead of feline, they are so much less destructive to an ecosystem. 

 

I'm leaving hospital this morning, the wife sent me a photo of the poor hungry kitten looking dejected on the doorstep. So he's not been scared off by the ordeal, anyway. 

 

Also, I suppose my future hopes and dreams of being a hand model can be thrown in the bin.

 

The poor hungry kitten is just waiting to finish you off, they hold a grudge well!

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, peds said:

Handsome wee fella. How would you go about training to encourage ratting behaviour? I'd definitely like to move towards canine pest control instead of feline, they are so much less destructive to an ecosystem. 

 

I'm leaving hospital this morning, the wife sent me a photo of the poor hungry kitten looking dejected on the doorstep. So he's not been scared off by the ordeal, anyway. 

 

Also, I suppose my future hopes and dreams of being a hand model can be thrown in the bin.

 

 

Jeez, did they cut you open to get at the infection, looks like you were lucky not to loose the finger or worse, all the best.

[peds]

58 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

 

Jeez, did they cut you open to get at the infection, looks like you were lucky not to loose the finger or worse, all the best.

Yep, sliced open front and back, Sunday and Tuesday, to wash it all out.

No, luck had nothing to do with it, the only thing that saved the hand was timely and skillful surgical intervention. It would have been lucky if the antibiotics alone did the trick.

 

Anyway, nothing is certain yet, until the cuts have healed and the course of meds is complete. 

[Macpherson]

10 minutes ago, peds said:

Yep, sliced open front and back, Sunday and Tuesday, to wash it all out.

No, luck had nothing  do with it, the only thing that saved the hand was timely and skillful surgical intervention. It would have been lucky if the antibiotics alone did the trick.

 

Anyway, nothing is certain yet, until the cuts have healed and the course of meds is complete. 

 

I know exactly how you feel as I suffered a similar injury, a partial degloving of the same finger following a motorcycle accident albeit 40 years ago, which became badly infected.

 

As the doctor came to my bed to tell me that they would have to remove my finger to save the hand he noticed a fleeting figure scoot by the open double doors of the ward and quickly chased after him and brought him to look at my festering injury, he was by chance a plastic surgeon who specialised in hand reconstruction and after a quick few seconds inspection he said " I can fix that " and within the hour I was in an ambulance on the way to his hospital, and sure enough a few surgeries and a skin graft later I was fixed, I'll always be grateful for the unlikely circumstances of chance came together for me that day.

 

I hope you mend quickly,  cheers

 

 

 

 

 

[Stere]

Very lucky & a shame its often seems to come down to being lucky/pushy in  getting  good treatment.....

[peds]

Ahhh, I can't hear the word deglove without recoiling. Grisly stuff. I can't imagine the relief you must have felt after that episode.

 

Well I just got home, 2.5hr drive from the hospital, in an automatic though so no big deal. Now to feed the chickens, water the plants, and wrestle the cats. Life goes on.