Does
it ever stop? I've seen it a thousand
times and they do it everywhere they go, no matter what they are doing.
If I’m inside the house and they are in a dead sleep on the porch and I walk anywhere
near the sliding backdoor, off they go down the driveway. As fast as they can go, thundering toward the gate at the end of the lane. If they are really excited, they don’t even look
for me, they just thunder off to "somewhere land" not knowing where they are going,
just somewhere. They know there are
balls and Frisbee's to be played with, and a lake they can swim in if they can
get there in a hurry. They are so
crestfallen when I open the door to get something and walk right back inside that they pout. “Bark, Bark and more Bark” Dutchess says
“hey, what about us, let's play” with that evil eye she has. All in all, they run
everywhere they go, trust me.
Now
I really don’t care if they run, I just want them to be careful when they
do. We have had many vet trips for
sutures and x-rays and nearly every one of our dogs and neighbor dogs have made that same Vet trip. Sometimes they will run into each other, nip
at each other and even run into anything or everything. “Over the river and through the woods to
grandmothers house” is a wonderful verse to a lovely song, but with Border Collies, the
through the woods part scares the bejeebers out of me. I've seen them run through overgrowth and
around trees missing them by only a smidgen of space with me, gritting my teeth the whole
time, wanting to turn my head and look elsewhere. Just
a few weeks ago, I was brushing Abbie and discovered that she had a cut on her right
side.
After a good exam, I felt that it is something that we can manage and watch at home.
I had some antibiotics from another dog injury which would help with
infection so we were well on our way to the “home health care” plan. I sprinkled on some antibiotic powder along
with an antibiotic pill and now we were on our way to recovery or so I
thought... In just about 2 minutes, Abbie
had licked the powder off and continued to lick her boo boo with great pleasure. As it comes to pass in most dog’s life,
especially Border Collies, they face the dreaded doom…”THE CONE OF SHAME” or as some call it, "The No Fly food cover".
Being an experienced BC owner, I went to the
top shelf in the kennel and got the last cone we had.
This was Abbie’s first time in the cone but after a rough start, she had
mastered the “run and bang” theory very well, hitting everything in sight, and not
stopping.
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| Cone # 1...Help me...I can't lick my butt... |
Of all the past “cone of
shame” wearers, she was the most active.
Abbie would assume it was flexible and would run as normal. While I tried to limit her activity, you know
it’s impossible with a BC, so off we were on a joy ride of sorts. After nearly knocking the back door off its
hinges, tires off of the car and whizzing past me knocking me to the ground, the “Cone
of Shame” had seen better days in just one day.
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| Cone #2, one day old... notice all the hits to solid objects... |
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