My heeler/lab, Skyler was in my fenced front yard for approx. 5 minutes Sat. morning, then in the house for 2 hours and about 30 minutes after the kids' riding lesson was over when we let him out, we noticed he had a small bleeding puncture on his side. Called my vet and they were busy with emergencies so we went to the nearest walk-in vet and they looked at it and said they wanted to x-ray him for a BB?! Okayed that and glad I did because there was an air gun pellet in him! It was in the middle of his abdomen so he had to have exploratory surgery to make sure it hadn't passed through an intestine or something..... luckily all looked good except for a lot of blood in there.... We got him home yesterday afternoon and the poor guy is miserable
He has a 5" incision down the middle of his stomach, plus the hole in his side. He's on antibiotics and pain meds but only is comfortable about the first 6 hours after his pills..... called and they said we could give him his pain meds every 8 hrs/instead of 12 so that might help some. Anyways, we are still stunned, figure it had to be someone driving by while he was out front..... he likes to race along the fence, barking but he was IN OUR YARD!!! Hoping pain mercies for him, he is the sweetest dog ever and hoping that this person someday becomes a compassionate human being instead of a vicious, hateful being they currently are......