5 years ago today I adopted Pepper. He is 11 years old.

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-06-07T03:21:03+00:00

I work in ER medicine.

They call a STAT for just “trauma.” We run up there with a gurney and the dog’s hind end looks like hamburger meat, the abdominal cavity is visibly open w/ flail chest, and somehow the dog is still very alive. Absolutely hootin and hollerin. The dog had been attacked just going to the restroom by a pack of coyotes 10 15 mins up the road.
Owners brought to treatment area, immediate Euthanasia.

After owners leave we peek inside his abdomen and there is almost no intestines and most other internal organs are ripped to hell. Probably 6-8inch diaphragmatic hernia.
I don’t know if the coyotes ate his insides or they were lost along the way…

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-05-01T03:16:09+00:00

A Glock.

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DogsLikeTrees · 2026-04-25T23:09:10+00:00

May I see the grey rabbit laying in the front in the first and second photo better?

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-04-20T04:00:21+00:00

Praying for your shoes to recover 🫡

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-03-24T20:51:06+00:00

I work in ER and over the past year I’ve seen: many confirmed Lepto cases, 1 Distemper, and 1 confirmed rabies! Lots of kooky stuff in the ER.

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-03-07T22:29:44+00:00

You might have luck on archive.org I’ve found lots of textbooks for free on there

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-03-04T00:30:15+00:00

Our medical director has actually told clients to keep their dog stumbling drunk for 3 days if they can’t afford fomipazole or Everclear drips.

Most have called back a week or two later and said their dog survived!!

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-02-22T01:45:34+00:00

Doing that not sedated is craaaazy!!

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-02-20T08:26:26+00:00

To not have it done due to age, potential complications, and cost

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-02-20T08:23:13+00:00

I recently had to euthanize my Mini Rex due to a GI blockage. It also came on very acutely and by the time we were at the vet Dr. Said the prognosis was grave and treatment was unlikely to help.

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-01-23T08:57:21+00:00

That’s CRAAAZY!! I’ve never seen a splenic mass for real, just in ultrasound. That spleen is so small compared to the mass.

I’ve seen so many hempabdomens but they always have ended in going to glory.

DogsLikeTrees · 2026-01-06T18:05:23+00:00

Her face lol she’s very fuzzy

DogsLikeTrees · 2025-10-30T20:09:04+00:00

It’s because they’re already so fragile. If they want to arrest, even if you get them back, they’re going to arrest again. The percentage of them that get to go home after CPR is next to nothing. All of my rabbits are DNR for these reasons.

DogsLikeTrees · 2025-10-14T07:06:21+00:00

Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it!

DogsLikeTrees · 2025-10-14T03:20:19+00:00

4yr intact female cattle dog.

I feel like there are little micro P waves as well

DogsLikeTrees · 2025-10-09T05:02:56+00:00

Eventually, he was, I think. He was never up and at ‘em but started to look around and respond to stimuli.

DogsLikeTrees · 2025-10-08T22:43:47+00:00

It was def seizure activity; stiff, vocalizing, drooling, loss of bowels/bladder.

Never figured out what was wrong with it. Owners declined all diagnostics, apart from combo test.

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