Picasso Update

Sorry for missing the comment - it was so unexpected! Beth, you have the honor of being the first Vincent and Picasso's Patch Hill Party Blog Comment and so we (the numerous staff here at the Party Blog) present you with the following award:

We would also like to recognize our first official blog follower Shannon:

We hope it makes up for the delay in both replying to comments and adding additional blog posts!

Now for the official update:

Beth (our official party blog first commenter) has asked how they get pins out of a dog's stomach. Fascinating question. Nature provides two access points to the stomach. The first method is to fill the dog with fiber and let nature take its course. The vet said they might have attempted this if Picasso was a full sized lab. Unfortunately he is a 1/2 size lab (clearly he didn't get any additional "don't eat that" brains from the other half) so he was not of a large enough size to attempt this without the risk of Serious Injury. The second method involves lowering a scope down the throat, grabbing the pins and dragging them back up the way they went down. Since pins are pointy and sharp, this method could also cause Serious Injury. And so, we come to the final approach: Make a new hole.

The vet performed surgery from 11:00pm - 12:00am from Saturday to Sunday. We were so glad that Picasso picked Saturday night to eat pins because, as you can guess, emergency midnight dog surgery is so cheap. He had to stay until Sunday evening so they could watch him and make sure he could eat and drink. He could, and so they sent him home. For 10 days he was on bed rest and medicines - oh and mini-meals before his medicines. In other words, no partying. At first he was okay with that, but part way through the recovery he started becoming a pain in the butt, refusing to lay down and opening the baby gates to try to get out and play with Vincent. (Yes, he figured out how to open baby gates with that stupid Dog from Mars cone on his head.) After 10 days, he was fully recovered.

Official Picasso Status Today: Apparently finding and ingesting 5 straight pins and having stomach surgery does not damper your spirits when you're a dog! As of right now, you wouldn't even know anything had happened to him at all - except he still has a funny haircut. He eats, he runs, he sniffs. He still hates baths and delivery men. Official Picasso Rating: 100% Normally Neurotic.