Our poor Jake! About a month ago we noticed him shaking his head quite a bit and when I looked him over everything looked fine. Then I noticed one of his ears was hanging lower than the other. When I felt his ear he had a huge "pillow" under the skin. I guess this happens, especially when dogs get older and they are big, strong dogs like Jake and have little ears. They shake their head and cause a hematoma to occur under the skin of the ear forming a big, painful pillow of blood to form. So, he had to have surgery to remove the hematoma. The thing took forever to heal, since it's basically a huge pocket of blood. They have to leave it open a little to weep, so he had the cone on his head for about 3 weeks. We all had quite a few bruises on our legs and missing paint on the walls from the cone. Finally it was all healed. Unfortunately last week I heard him shake his head again and I just knew that wasn't a good sign! Sure enough he had one on his other ear!! He had surgery again yesterday and now looks exactly like the above picture again. We're hoping - for his sake and ours - that these will be permanent fixes!
Ben rode the horses at least 5 times, he loved it! It was such a fun, unusual birthday party, I'm so glad we were able to go!
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That party does look fun!! I don't know about Jake's ears though. Yikes! Maybe you can get them fixed "doberman style" and not mess with them anymore. ;) Sounds miserable for all.
That looks like so much fun. I am so glad he enjoyed it and doesn't have your allergy to horses.
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