Can't suck, I know. Depends on the
number that anger, yeah, or lumbar.
Phone and stuff.
Do you want to go see? OK, good.
Come on. Is how many cats?
Are you tired? It is so it's OK.
He's scary now. Or.
We got a phone call from the owner
and actually we got a phone call from
Rebecca Gwynn stating that this dog
needed to be seen and treated and we
referred him to a 24 hour facility
because he was in such poor condition.
So he stayed in the 24 hour facility
probably for a couple weeks before he
came back here to have wind care done.
And to the best of your knowledge
or experience, what were some of
the conditions you mentioned is a
physical condition from the attack.
Can you tell us what that how that how
that manifested as far as his his wounds?
So he has he has a open wound on
his neck that has since been closed,
he's got a big open wound on his
back here that is being treated and
he lost his tail in the attack.
So.
So it was hairy for him, not for a bit.
He disappeared for a couple of
days so before they found him.
So he's lucky to be alive.
I mean, he really is.
He was in bad, bad condition.
And you mentioned we talking off
camera that he's right now he's only,
he's less than two years.
And so forth. Dog his size.
How often have you encountered or
had experiences with, you know,
attacks of this kind or or to that,
so this severity never. Never
especially the severity. Gotcha.
Ohh and for the just for the record
like what was the attack what was
the animal that that attacked him.
So he was he was guarding sheep the night
that he was attacked and he went into
the I think there were eleven coyotes
and he went into the pack to attack
them to get them away from the sheep.
And I believe he killed 8 of them.
Wow, he's a
he's a hero for sure.
So how often do you guys experience
even well, I'm, you know,
I'm sure it changes depending on where
you're at geographically in the city.
But what how often do you come
across attacks of that kind,
maybe not to that extent,
but just to, you know,
coyote versus, you know,
domestic dog attacks that can.
You know, sometimes it's hard to tell
because we do see a lot of trauma and
we're not sure what they're attacked by,
but we know they're attacked.
And likely it could be a a fox or
a coyote or raccoon or whatever.
Another dog, another cat.
And so for Katrina, what's his
aftercare been like as far
as your experience with him,
when it when it first,
when you first came in,
it was a huge wound on his back
especially that we've been treating
by second intention healing,
which means we're not going to close it,
we're going to just let it do its
do its healing from the inside out.
So we've been putting a manuka honey salve on
it and what we call it a tie down bandage.
Which means we put like a lap sponge
on top and then we use umbilical tape
to tie it down using some stay sutures
that are just around the outside
perimeter of the of the wound itself.
So we changed that.
We started out changing it every
day for the first few weeks and now
we've gone down to be changing every
two or three days depending on what
it looks like at the time of change.
The neck wound was recently closed because
they got close enough now to close.
And so we've been putting the manuka honey
on it as well and cleaning it up real well.
You have to fully bandage it because
he shakes off any drawdown bandages.
Yeah.
I wonder if it tickles a little bit.
Thank you.
If it tickles a little bit, when?
When he has it on his neck.
So he will shake until it comes off.
So we put a bandage on ironically
with sheep this time.
And Katrina,
you can start with the question,
but I would like to hear
Doctor Brown's answer as well.
What's his disposition?
I've been like, since you've had
experience with him, his disposition,
he's a he's a character.
He's a goofy guy when he does his own thing.
Typical working dog to where they're
just kind of an independent working dog.
So we let them walk out around with us
in the morning before the show starts.
And when it's time to change the bandage,
we almost have to chase them down
because he knows it's happening.
But he's definitely always
been in good spirits,
and we don't even have to.
Please update him to change his bandages.
It's almost like he knows we're
trying to help them so.
So it's a good guy,
excellent. And Doctor Rosen, he's
spoiled, spoiled rotten.
I'm hoping he'll be able to
go back to a guardian dog,
but I don't know if we're going
to ruin that for him since he's
gotten really attached to us.
He loves Macy, one of the.
Technicians.
He's been trying to get over there, too.
He says. I'm going to lay down.
I'm gonna ask a couple of questions,
but you can look at him when you.
So as far as the cases that you've
seen here at Lifeline and the
cases that you've dealt with an
attack of this sort and to see
that this animal was doing so well
now how would you characterize it?
I mean it's kind of a miracle really it is,
you should have survived. It is
a miracle and it makes you feel
really good to be part of it, so.
That is, you know, one of the things
that keeps us going every day is to
have cases like this and seeing how
not only the owners appreciate it,
but the animals appreciate it as
well and they love us. So yeah,
and the fact that when they found him,
he was covered in maggots and because
he had hidden into like a chicken coop,
I think he said,
and popped up a couple days
after the incident even happened,
a lot of things could have happened.
He could have become septic.
A massive infection,
but we were able to piggyback with
our with some partners we were able
to like come in and and clean them
up good enough that he can make a
good clean bill of Bill of Health.
And So what that was that time frame
been like since the time you guys
discovered it till today Thursday the
1st. So we're we're like about a
month in at least I feel like like
the 1st of November kind of or end
of October kind of when it happened.
So we're month end.
And what would you say his diagnosis
is in your opinion about the
product or his prognosis? I think his
prognosis is good for full recovery.
And do either of you guys have
experience with this type
of breed before our breeds like this? As
far as the Guardian sheepdog types, I mean,
I've worked on them before, but I.
Not like this. Finally,
I've never seen one that's killed
multiple coyotes, right? And
he's gentle. He's like a big, gentle giant.
The thing that I'm seeing here
is his mood seems very calm and
very at ease with, you know,
like you said, like very visible
points of trauma and like it's.
If it was a person, we've had a
lot of reasons to be what was made,
but he seems very. Yeah.
I think like the day after he came in when
I saw him in her cage and I was like,
ohh, we have this huge dog in here and
his wound was covered up, but it was we
were doing bandage changes every day.
And then I saw it and I was like,
oh, that's I've never seen.
And because it was,
it was probably about a foot long
and maybe 8 to 6 inches in width.
So it was a big flesh wound,
like it was gone.
Skin's gone. And
that was just what you guys
would just gave us just from
the attack or just from the
like that was from the attack.
Yeah. This seemed like,
it looked like, yeah,
looked like maybe a coyote grabbed a hold
of his skin and just peeled it right off.
So seeing that, I was like, ohh gosh.
And then I saw his neck wound and it
was the same thing, flesh taken off.
And I was like, what are we going to do?
But. But I'm manuka.
Honey really, really works for skin.
Like the granulation,
granulation and everything for it.
He looks great.
Now he's in good spirit.