"Lexi" and her near death story |
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The red collar she is wearing in this picture...is the one we had to cut off of her!
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This has nothing to do with drugs, but think it is important. It was posted on one of my golden retriever forums and I asked permission to copy and paste it and she whole heartedly gave permission.
Most of us were shocked that such a think could happen, but there were a couple of posters who had either had the same thing happen to them or knew someone who had. Then this morning I was on one of the forums and the very first post was by a lady who had this happen 8 years ago with her golden & her sisters' golden. Before she could bet them apart, she had sustained some very bad bites to her arms, required 14 stitches and still has some muscle damage. It was her sisters dog who was being choked and in her panic bit the lady. The dog also had to hospitalized for fluid in her lungs after the event. The the very next poster posted "Isn't this how XXXXX'a family lost their dog recently. So apparently it is a far more common thing than you would think.
Sandra Slayton (Thanks Sandra for passing it on!)
This is a horrible story I never dreamed could happen to us, and hopefully......will NEVER happen to any of you.
I wasn't going to post this, it was just too painful reliving it all over again! But, after having a week to think about everything, if this can possibly save one of YOUR babies.....then the guilt I would feel by NOT posting what happened to Lexi, would be with me forever.
Here is our story........ Christmas night, we got home from my daughter's around 11:00 PM. Dan, my Hubby was tired, and had gone to bed. I was talking with my son Sean in the living room, while Lexi and Brody were playing and wrestling like they always do........so thrilled and happy that we were home!
I heard Brody yelp, and figured Lexi bit at his ears like she does sometimes when they play. I went in the kitchen to tell her to stop playing so rough and hurting Brody.
Never......... did I prepare myself for what was happening.
They both had leather collars with buckles on them, and when they were wrestling, Lexi's collar twisted over the back of Brody's big lower teeth! It was cutting into his gums....he couldn't move...and Lexi was gurgling and choking to death. Her eyes were starting to roll back in her head, when I screamed at my Son Sean to help me. He tried to get his finger under the collar to release pressure off Lexi's trachea which was closing. He couldn't get any leverage at all, and in no way could we even begin to unbuckle the collars!
I screamed to my hubby that Lexi was choking to death, and he jumped out of the bed to help us. I grabbed a thin tipped long butcher knife, and I held her up along with Sean holding Brody......while Dan wiggled and wiggled the tip under the collar and cut it off of her.
It seemed like FOREVER until she started breathing again, choked a few times.........and we got her to
drink a little water.
After it was all over...I just burst out crying! She was on her way out......when Dan got that collar cut. If I had been here alone, there is NO WAY I would have been able to do what took three of us, to save her life!
I feel so blessed and thankful that she is here with us today! Wendy had bought all three of them Guardian Angel name tags for Christmas. I had put them on all three of them that afternoon before we left for Christmas dinner at my Daughter's house.
I can't begin to tell you what a nightmare it was, and how even writing this, it makes me feel SICK to my stomach. Here are three sites that sell break-away collars. Many thanks to Wendy for sending them to me! I ordered from the 2nd Site, as they are all pretty much the same collar, and they had the best price with the shipping and handling. Some have collars that have a strip on the back, so you can see them at night also. Please read the testimonials on the sites.....it is SO SCARY....and I witnessed myself, how quickly they can be GONE. I have two collars coming for them, and I am buying a break-away Cat collar for Ruby. Though she doesn't play like they do...she is low to the ground, and can catch on many things. Lori has them on all her Doxies, for just that reason. In one of the stories I read....there were two Golden's playing, just as Brody and Lexi were...but they didn't get another chance like we did! She lost one of them.
Thanks for reading my story.....please think about buying your so LOVED babies these collars. It could save their lives, should what happened to Brody and Lexi happen to them.
It was so horribly FRIGHTENING......I can't even begin to tell you.
Sincerely,
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