trdrmac, Andy62279, Lightningsmurf, marketsurfer, vvv, Mr. Subliminal, XGGTrader, aphexcoil, Tech Analysis:
Thanks for all the kind words - they really helped me get thru this mess.
Shreddy is going to live! He is badly bruised all over his body, with skin just showing in some places and no fur. He is on potent drugs though, and he looks high.
We went to visit him at the hospital and we brought him a whole chicken - he didn't even look at it and looked pretty depressed, which is BIZARRE if you know my dog. But after a little talking and cajoling, he started gobbling it up and he perked up a little bit.
He is going into surgery tomorrow (Saturday) for four hours to fix both sides of his pelvic bone - one side was pretty badly beat up but will just require "pushing back" the leg into the socket and putting in a pin, and possibly removing small fragments. The other will require most of the work as it has to be reconstructed.
Fortunately, there are no chest contusions, liver or spleen damage, no back or lung or kidney or colon or bladder damage. That is, at least as far as the X-Rays show - the surgeon will know better when he opens him up tomorrow, but he looked me straight in the eye and said he would be very surprised to find anything else. We were very lucky he was hit in the hind quarters only - the rest of the bruises look like the after effects from rolling on pavement when he was thrown.
They will be putting in metal plates and other parts in him. We were joking with him that as of tomorrow, we should start calling him the $6,000,0000 dog.
I can't believe the courage of this little 23 pound Jack Russell. The doctor said that the equivalent accident on him or me would have very likely killed us.
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