Sarah The Wonder Dog (Body Piercing Edition)

On Sunday, Sarah managed to get her upper canine tooth through her upper lip. We're not really sure how this is even possible, but she did it.

We were on a walk with her and another dog started barking at her from the other side of a fence. She usually does not care much when things like this happen, but this time she got really agitated and took off towards the fence, barking up a storm. She was on a leash, so she did not get very far, but she was really pulling at it. It took about thirty seconds to pull her away from the fence and get her to stop barking madly.

As we continued walking, we noticed that she kept bending her head down and pawing at it. Then we noticed that she was bleeding! We stopped to take a good look and noticed her top tooth poking through her top lip. It looked really creepy and painful! Jeremy and Kirk held her down and got the tooth out of the lip. Once we got home Kirk shaved the area as best he could and cleaned it out. She was pretty good through both these procedures and did not try to bite or struggle away.

On Monday Cathy made a vet appointment for her, just in case. The vet said that it was a pretty nice puncture wound and that it was good we brought her in- mouth infections are not a good thing, and puncture wounds in that area can get infected very quickly. She's now on doggie antibiotics, and very pleased with herself, because doggie pills=peanut butter.

We're still unsure how she managed to do this by barking. Even the vet was impressed.