Pooooor Jaaaackie Got a Boo Boo!!!!!

Remember Jack, our Ward/Foster Dog?

He was abandoned by the Family that

lived a few houses from us. They moved

and left him behind to fend for himself.

AJ and ME fed him and gave him shelter

on our front porch, but he still had the

run of the neighborhood.

Monday morning I got up and prepared

his warm breakfast as usual. When I went

out to feed him he did not jump out of his

bed to eat, as he usually does.

"What's wrong Jack? Not hungry this morning"

He looked up at me and immediately I got sick!

Sometime during the night he had injured his eye.

I called for AJ to come look at it closer,

I couldn't.

AJ said he could not tell how bad it was.

It was swelling and mattering.

AJ and Me just decided to let him be for now.

He laid in his bed most of the day, Monday,

and would not eat a bite.

Tuesday found him somewhat better

in spirits. The eye was now looking really bad though.

This is when AJ and Me decided to call our Vet.

We told them our story of how Jack was a Stray

and we had befriended him.

We had no idea of how Jack would act in a

car or at the Animal Clinic. He is a gentle dog,

but he also had an injury and that, can

change a dogs disposition.

They told AJ and ME to bring him in first

thing Wednesday morning and they would take

him in right away, no waiting.

Early Wednesday morning AJ and ME, working

as a team, got Jack in the car and headed for

the Vet's.

AJ and ME were very pleasently surprised that

Jack took, very well, to the car.

He looked out the window much of the trip.

AJ carried him in the office and a Vet Tech

took him from us and again he was as

sweet as always. It seemed as if he knew

we were all helping him.

Jack spent the whole day at the Clinic.

He was put under sedation and

the Vet found it was the lid that had been torn.

The eye ball seemed fine and he had not

lost any sight. I was so relieved! I had been

saying and thinking his eye had been poked out!

He had a few stiches. AJ and ME have to

put an ointment in his eye 3 times a day

and he has to take antbiotics for 5 days.

He will go back in a week to get the stitches out.

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Here is Jack now feeling so much better.

The Vet had to shave the hair around the eye,

so it looks like he is sporting a "Shinner".

If you look close, you can see,

Jack now wears a collar

and he also had a Rabies Shot.

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No more running the streets for Jack.

Jack is now confined to part of our yard.

As he gets used to not running the neighborhood,

we will introduce him to the whole back yard

and see how he performs with AJ's Pigeons and

of course our Baby Marley.
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His bed is in the garage so he still has shelter.

Jack's world has gotten smaller, and even

though he may not know it now,

It is for the BEST.

AJ and ME really did not want a second dog

at this time, but sometimes you are not

incharge.

Jack is the 8th stray animal AJ and ME

have taken in and given a good/loving Home.

And believe Me and AJ, we are the ones

that reap the benefits!

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AJ and Me's adopted Animal Kids:

1--------------------------Lilie (stray cat, still living at 18 1/2 years of age)

2------------------Wiener (stray cat, passed away at 15 years years of age)

3-------------------------Rosie (stray cat, passed away about 1 year of age)

4-----------------------------Butch (stray dog, passed away 14 years of age)

5----------------------------Lady (stray dog, passed away at 13 years of age

6-------------Tony ( stray Red Ear Slider turtle, still living at about 1 year)

7---Founder (stray pigeon still living, AJ added to coop about 1 year age)

8-------------Jack (stray dog, still living age not sure maybe 3 years old?)

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Non-strays:

Quincey (cat, purchased from breeder,

passed away at 11 years)

Moe ( a Beta Fish, purchased from Pet Smart,

passed at away 1 year 11 months)

Murphy (cat, still living, adopted from Pets & People Shelter,

2 1/2 years of age)

Marley ( dog, purchased from breeder,

still living, 8 months old)

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