I mentioned a while back that our dog needed surgery. Here’s the one week and two day post-op result. On the plus side, she’s got some fishing line stabilizing her right rear leg, and her bladder no longer has stones. On the minus side, she needs three rounds of physical therapy every day (heat followed by moving the leg around) and she’s otherwise restricted in movement. She’s allowed short walks but only with a sling contraption to support her weight so she doesn’t fall and stretch out the fishing line in her joint. And, of course, there’s the cone.
So, a dog that’s used to a couple of good long walks a day, plus running around the house as she pleases, is confined to a 3×3 space and only allowed a few minutes out per day. She would be going nuts if it weren’t for the modern wonder narcotic, Tramadol. You may have heard of it via the miracle of Internet Spam. When the Tramadol wears off, she starts to think about jumping out of her confined area, jumping on the furniture (forbidden) and running around the house (absolutely forbidden). When the Tramadol is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, the result is what you see at left. I’m the guy Nina Simone was singing about.
spudgun
Aww, poor bebbeh. But also: your pooch is STONED! So cute.
BGinCHI
I like your poodle martini.
Belafon
Now, imagine trying to explain to mommy T-Rex why you had to put the baby’s leg in a cast.
Comrade Mary
It is so wrong that I laughed at her once my brain figured out what that tangle of parts was. Glad she’s on the mend!
ranchandsyrup
Glad to hear she’s on the mend.
scuffletuffle
The pooch is too damned cute!
taylormattd
Aww, poor thing! Glad to hear the drugs are working . . .
Schlemizel
At least she is going to be better. Given my medical history I thank pasta every day for the advances of the last couple of decades. If I were alive I would probably be wheelchair bound.
OT: anyone wonder why I have little faith in Pope Frank changing the church substantially? Here is an interesting article seems some true believers were upset that Jews were defiling their church.
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Catholic+fringe+defies+Pope+disrupts+interfaith+Kristallnacht/9160216/story.html
piratedan
so she gets to emulate your sophomore year at college?
Baud
I’ll have what she’s having.
the Conster
@Baud:
This. LOL.
MikeJ
Party at mix’s house!
BTW, I dug into WP looking for an easy way to pull comments from a different table. No dice, at least easily. At first glance it looks like it requires rewriting major parts of the core. But I did have another idea.
How about a separate install of WP and using some mod_rewrite tricks to automagically divert urls from 30+ days to the other installation?
Ash Can
Poor dear! Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery.
dpm (dread pirate mistermix)
@MikeJ: Hmm, that might work.
jenn
@Schlemizel: I think you may have left a word or two out of your first paragraph :)
Re your link, if you’re going for 100% of any group to fulfill your expectations/hopes, I think you’re going to be disappointed. A group of nutbars protested, were kicked out, and the interfaith ceremony continued. I have no idea whether Francis will be able to effect real and lasting change, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he were, if his papacy lasts over a decade. If not, the odds go lower.
MikeJ
@dpm (dread pirate mistermix): The real trick is to make it transparent so you don’t loose any SEO mojo. You could make links to old stories (say from google) still return the story from www, but have a link to see the story with comments on archive.b-j.com.
Citizen_X
@Schlemizel: Wow. Jews worship “false gods,” srsly? And this:
Nazi scum. That’s all they are. And they’re a little group of schismatics, besides.
chopper
@Schlemizel:
can you do me a favor and start haunting the shit out of darrell issa? thx.
dpm (dread pirate mistermix)
@MikeJ: In apache you can rewrite transparently (URL doesn’t change).
LanceThruster
Elizabelle
Your pup looks good on Tramadol.
Wishing pup a successful recovery.
kc
Poor baby . . .
Violet
The dog in the car across from me in the supermarket parking lot looks just like your little puppy. This dog is in a Mercedes. A new one. You sure your dog didn’t pull a switcheroo? I hope your dog feels better soon.
TrishB
But does she have the special front leg hairdo – an inch band shaved naked about 2 inches up from the paw so the IVs could go in? One mini schnauzer here still rocking that cut until the groomer visits on Tuesday.
schrodinger's cat
Oh noes not the collar of shame, poor poor thing. BTW how many channels does she get.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
The Cone of Shame!
@Schlemizel:
Meh. Same assholes who have been upset since Pope John XXIII publicly apologized to Jews for the centuries of persecution and removed official anti-Semitism from the liturgy … in the early 1960s.
They’re Mel Gibson Catholics. They’ve been unhappy since Vatican II and they can go fuck themselves.
Moe Gamble
Here’s an inflatable protective dog collar that works as well as an Elizabethan collar but is much more comfortable for the dog: http://www.1800petmeds.com/ProCollar+Premium+Inflatable+Protective+Pet+Collar+-+Large-prod11422-11470.html?AFFID=GG&ID=413408180&creative=16652253986&adpos=1o2&device=c&network=g&matchtype=&gclid=CIqliuTe5boCFeZ7QgodgQEArQ
I am not a seller of these things. I have a family of six German Shepherds, with all the vet bills that implies.
The Pale Scot
T-dol is a wonder drug.
Multiple car, motorcycle and work accidents later, it’s the only thing that I can take long term. Doesn’t make you dopy, I’m not sure it evens affects pain that much. But it does prevent muscle spasms and other blow back from the aches, and that all I need to keep moving.
justawriter
Is is just me or has the poor little doggy’s eyes actually turned into little x’s?