I suck and my puppy hates me

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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One of my girls had a tick on her head. I’m the designated tick remover for the family (seriously - I’ve been called to other houses to removed them). But this time, I failed miserably. I didn’t judge the depth of the tick correctly, didn’t grasp close enough to the skin, and didn’t anticipate my puppy jerking at the last minute.

I left the head in her head. She is so pissed at me. I called my vet but they’re closed until tomorrow. I called Tufts and they told me I’ve already done any damage that can be done so I am safe to save the money and see my regular vet tomorrow.
She is avoiding me like I have the plague and she keeps rubbing her head on stuff. Damn tick wasn’t bothering her at all and I had to go and rip its body off. She had been all cozy and snuggled against my leg and now she wont come near me.
I’m never going to be confident removing a tick again. Last time one of my dogs had a tick, I told myself I was going to get one of those tick removing spoons. I was at the damn vet’s office and they have them on the counter and I didn’t get one.
I suck. :frowning:

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You monster! :eek:

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I know. :(:frowning:

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Luckily for you, puppy love is absolute, and puppy memory is very short. I predict that everything will be back to normal very soon

:slight_smile:

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I hope so. She let me scritch her chin but she refused to look at me or lick my hand.

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Cheese.

Maybe cheese and a belly rub.

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So you’ll see the vet and he’ll do whatever he has to do and in a week or two all will be forgiven and everything will be back to normal.

Either that or your whole family will be infected with some weird contagious mutant version of rocky mountain spotted fever. :eek: And you’ll deserve it!

Just joking. :stuck_out_tongue: You did your best and meant no harm. Don’t torture yourself over it.

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If I give her cheese, she’ll run to her crate and go to sleep. I’m thinking peanut butter ice cream.

Even her sister is looking at me accusingly.

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Cheese is insufficient. Ice cream, maybe. I’d suggest puppy deserves a Big Mac, or Whopper, Jr…something like that.

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Hey Oakminster, I think the puppy got on with your account.

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Nah. If puppy was using my account, he woulda asked for a T-Bone. :smiley:

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I could have sworn the PB ice cream was not chocolate but it is. Oh well. Instead I gave each girl a small plate smeared with peanut putter and topped with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream.

She still hasn’t accepted my apology but she at least hovered right in my face as I ate my chocolate PB ice cream. As soon as I finished mine without sharing, she started ignoring me again.

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Bacon. The puppy deserves bacon. If I had a puppy, I’d give him bacon forever. If I had a puppy, I’d give him MY bacon.

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I’m fairly certain that I don’t have bacon.

She licked me!!! Of course, she wanted to go outside but she still licked me!! She has peanut butter breath.

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She can’t stay ticked off forever.

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She’s going to be even more ticked off tomorrow when I take her to the vet.

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Bribery

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I took Jake in to get neutered last week. When I went to pick him up, he refused to stand by me. He went and sat by some stranger lady, and asked her to take him home. He didn’t forgive me until dinner.

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Peanut butter puppy breath? There’s nothing better…

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Awwww, that’s so cute! And sad. Definitely sad. I’m so glad my girls were fixed before we adopted them. It was hard enough dealing with a pissed off bunny. Puppies are so much more expressive when they’re pissed at you.