Well, this is something new to me.... I guess I never really thought about it being a possibility! The other night, I was here in the office and Kenny was outside with the dogs playing. I heard the back door open and instead of hearing little tags jingling their way to the cookie cabinet, I hear Kenny yelling "Nurse Mama.... Nurse Mama!" Of course I jump up, thinking the worst..... and he carries Cash in with a blood nose! So here's what happened.....
Cash has 2 "babies" that are near and dear to his heart. One is a Dinosaur and one is a Chicken. Both rubber of course, because if its made out of cloth and has a squeaker, hes turned it into a "shell," meaning hes taken everything out and eaten it! So anyway, if I had to rate to 2, I would say Chicken is his #1 homeboy, and the Dino is #2. The chicken goes EVERYWHERE with him. Its the cutest thing to see him in the morning run into the living room, or office, or bathroom, or under the bed..... wherever he left the little dude the night before..... grab him, run outside, and go potty. I kid you not..... he has to have the chicken in his mouth to poop! So, when Kenny goes outside to take them potty, the chicken is conveniently there, and he likes to throw it as high as he possible can and let Cash "catch it." Cash stares that darn chicken down every inch of its flight back to the ground and tries to "catch it" with both paws instead of his mouth. So I don't really know if the chicken came down full speed and his his little nose, or if he ran into Fendi (which is what Kenny thinks happened) or if he hit the ground....... whatever happened, the dude was dripping with blood! Kenny's shoe was covered, Chicken was covered, and they left a nice little trail of blood on the wood floor from the living room to the kitchen......
Now, when we were researching Australian Cattle Dogs on the internet before we bought him, it said that they have a really high pain tolerance, and this has proven to be true. This is the second incident where he was bleeding and he acted like nothing happened! Not a whimper or cry.....nothing! The first time, he jumped up full speed and hit his eye on the island in my kitchen. The little guy was bleeding from his eye and was more upset with the fact that I wouldn't give him some of the pot roast I was making instead of the fact that he almost lost an eyeball! (side note:Fendi would have played dead and acted like the world was coming to an end! No lie!) But this time for Cash was no different. Kenny was holding him while I was trying to find the source of the bleeding. He was more concerned with finding his chicken and resuming his came of "catch" with his dad! We opted for a few Ice Cookies and let him go on his merry little way!!!
So if you're wondering, YES, dogs CAN in fact get nose bleeds...... and NO, I don't know how to fix them! You cant really shove rolled up toilet paper inside their lip, or make them lean back and stick a Kleenex up their nose....... We just got lucky that it stopped after a few minutes! Has this ever happened to you? And if so.... how the heck do you make it stop!?!?
Here's a picture of the BFF's!
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