This past weekend I took Ivan tent camping for the first time. I know Ivan can be skittish at night, so I wasn't sure what to expect. Needless to say it was a very looooong night. Ivan was on alert and couldn't relax. A couple of times he would start to settle down and then there'd be another noise and he'd be up pacing around the tent again. Would have been interesting to see how he handled a second night, but that'll have to be another time.
Then on Saturday we went hiking with an organized group. At one point I saw an unleashed dog on the trail behind us. I wasn't thrilled with that as Ivan can get excited if he sees a dog and isn't allowed to meet it and I just didn't know what would happen should they catch up.
We moved forward down the trail, but then the group had to stop as a couple members of the group where turning back and the people that organized the event had to determine what guide was taking them out, etc.
While waiting I turn around and there's the unleashed dog. I go to turn back around and move Ivan away from the dog and it's already too late. Without any sort of warning or lead up this other dog, who is a Golden Retreiver, is latched onto the side of Ivan's head. I grab both of their collars, but don't have the strength to pull them apart. The other members of the group I'm hiking with join in as does the owner of the unleashed dog, but we can't get them apart.
Ivan is screaming and the other dog's owner is yelling at him to let go and prying on his jaws, but isn't having any luck. One of the guy's in my group punches the Golden in the ribs with no reaction.
Finally the other dog, Bentley, lets go of Ivan. Amazingly Ivan has no punctures and only some scrapes on the back of his ear by the base near the skull. The other owner sticks around to make sure Ivan is okay and apologizes. I tell him to just please make sure to leash your dog.
So on Sunday around noon I'm laying on the couch and watching a movie while Ivan chews on a bone. I move my foot and notice the couch is awfully wet and look down and see a good bit of blood. I immediately look at Ivan's ear and can see no evidence of anything bleeding. Then I'm wondering am I bleeding somewhere? LOL WTH?
I then look at his dog bed and see blood down there, where he had initially started chewing his bone. I look at his mouth and gums and don't see anything.
I go into the kitchen and get some paper towels and peroxide to clean up them mess and realize on the way back into the room that Ivan's nose is wet. I dab it with the paper towels and it's blood. I look at his nose and can find no scratches or damage of any sort.
I don't think it's from the dog fight or him breathing anything in while on the hike as that was 20 hours ago ago at this point. I then wondered if my one cat could have scratched him, as she was upstairs at one point, but she is blind and I didn't see her make contact with him. Nor did I hear him whimper. This was in the kitchen. Time passed, she was back downstairs, and he was in the living room before he started bleeding. I honestly can't put an exact timeline together though.
It had stopped bleeding for a while, but then later that day he started sneezing and sprayed blood all over the kitchen. Could have been a CSI blood splatter scene there was so much. I got him to settle down and it stopped. No blood last night or this morning.
I don't know what to make of the bleeding nose. I don't see any evidence that my cat got a hold of him. But I don't know how to explain it. And searching the Internet was terrifying - nasal cancers. Anyone else like terrifying themselves?
ETA: I have an acupuncture appt. tonight for my one cat, so I will bring this up to my vet then. And obviously if it starts bleeding again Ivan will be off to the vet.
Then on Saturday we went hiking with an organized group. At one point I saw an unleashed dog on the trail behind us. I wasn't thrilled with that as Ivan can get excited if he sees a dog and isn't allowed to meet it and I just didn't know what would happen should they catch up.
We moved forward down the trail, but then the group had to stop as a couple members of the group where turning back and the people that organized the event had to determine what guide was taking them out, etc.
While waiting I turn around and there's the unleashed dog. I go to turn back around and move Ivan away from the dog and it's already too late. Without any sort of warning or lead up this other dog, who is a Golden Retreiver, is latched onto the side of Ivan's head. I grab both of their collars, but don't have the strength to pull them apart. The other members of the group I'm hiking with join in as does the owner of the unleashed dog, but we can't get them apart.
Ivan is screaming and the other dog's owner is yelling at him to let go and prying on his jaws, but isn't having any luck. One of the guy's in my group punches the Golden in the ribs with no reaction.
Finally the other dog, Bentley, lets go of Ivan. Amazingly Ivan has no punctures and only some scrapes on the back of his ear by the base near the skull. The other owner sticks around to make sure Ivan is okay and apologizes. I tell him to just please make sure to leash your dog.
So on Sunday around noon I'm laying on the couch and watching a movie while Ivan chews on a bone. I move my foot and notice the couch is awfully wet and look down and see a good bit of blood. I immediately look at Ivan's ear and can see no evidence of anything bleeding. Then I'm wondering am I bleeding somewhere? LOL WTH?
I then look at his dog bed and see blood down there, where he had initially started chewing his bone. I look at his mouth and gums and don't see anything.
I go into the kitchen and get some paper towels and peroxide to clean up them mess and realize on the way back into the room that Ivan's nose is wet. I dab it with the paper towels and it's blood. I look at his nose and can find no scratches or damage of any sort.
I don't think it's from the dog fight or him breathing anything in while on the hike as that was 20 hours ago ago at this point. I then wondered if my one cat could have scratched him, as she was upstairs at one point, but she is blind and I didn't see her make contact with him. Nor did I hear him whimper. This was in the kitchen. Time passed, she was back downstairs, and he was in the living room before he started bleeding. I honestly can't put an exact timeline together though.
It had stopped bleeding for a while, but then later that day he started sneezing and sprayed blood all over the kitchen. Could have been a CSI blood splatter scene there was so much. I got him to settle down and it stopped. No blood last night or this morning.
I don't know what to make of the bleeding nose. I don't see any evidence that my cat got a hold of him. But I don't know how to explain it. And searching the Internet was terrifying - nasal cancers. Anyone else like terrifying themselves?
ETA: I have an acupuncture appt. tonight for my one cat, so I will bring this up to my vet then. And obviously if it starts bleeding again Ivan will be off to the vet.