our lil' lab thinks she's a boxer

It seems that our sweet lil' Sadie Jane is confused as to what breed of canine she belongs. She must think she's a boxer (see photo below).

You see, the story goes like this....

Hubs arrives home from work yesterday afternoon and heads outside to work in the garden. I decided to stay inside with the boys because of the crazy heat wave sweeping across our area.

He's outside for about 2 minutes and I think I hear someone screaming HELP!! HELP!!

So, I head out to the porch but by the time I get there he's walking back toward the house and Sadie is running close behind.

He then proceeds to tell me this....

He walked outside and heard her yelping and swinging her head back and forth violently. As he got closer to her he noticed that she was stuck.

We have a chain-link paneled fence for a pen. As you may know, the bottom edge of one of these panels isn't really fastened, but the ends are sort of twisted and turned up. I guess she was trying to escape and somehow managed to get that turned up edge hooked underneath her top eyelid. She was shaking her head back and forth trying to get free. There's really no telling how long this had been going on before Left Brain walked out there, but he was able to get it out sort of like you would take a hook out of a fish. It had to be SUPER gross!

The swelling happened almost immediately and we just knew that there was no way she didn't seriously damage her eye in the process, so we had an emergency vet visit at 10pm last night. The vet was almost speechless. Not only had he never seen anything like this, but he was amazed at how she was able to get that piece of chain-link between her eyeball and eyelid without even so much as scratching her actual eye. He thoroughly examined her, dyed her eye and said that there was nothing wrong. She had amazingly only busted a blood vessel under her skin and torn off some of her eyelid. He said that this was no big deal. He only prescribed her muscle relaxers to relax the muscles around her eye so as to reduce some of the pain. He also said it would get worse before it got better. Good thing he told us that because when I checked on her this morning her eye was NASTY! It had started running and I would have freaked out if he hadn't already warned me.

She's not acting like it bothers her at all today, so I guess things really are fine. It just looks so horrible and I feel so sorry for her. She just looks so pitiful!