Hey guys what is up,
It's been about 2 weeks since Thanksgiving of 2017 and I am still not ok lol. This is gonna be a long post about my Thanksgiving.On major holidays at my work the shifts are split into 3: 6:30-11, 11-4, and then 4-9. Since we are a boarding facility, we are the most busy so we don't get holidays off. I had the 4-9 shift on thanksgiving. I didnt mind it because i am not really close with my family so i didnt mind having to spend time at work. Now at work , Boss Lady's mom lives right next to the kennel. So on Thanksgiving, she makes food and whoever is working the last shift gets invited over to eat with everyone. It's R (Boss Lady's mom), Boss Lady, S (Boss Lady's brother who lives with R), and Boss Lady's ex boyfriend who you eat with. Now before i get into the details of this thanksgiving let me just say that D, Boss Lady's other brother who has been staying with R has 6 dogs. He has been staying with her for about 2 months now because his house got messed up during a hurricane. He was gone on Thanksgiving to work on the house in FL so he wasn't at R's house. So there are 8 dogs in this house. D has: Smokey, Cheyenne, Snowflake, Buttercup, Georgie, and Muchie. R has: Daisy and Skippy. Also, R's house has 3 floors: The upstairs, Ground Floor, and then down stairs. Down Stairs is like the ground floor. It has a bedroom, a bathroom, and a living room. Ok now lets get into this.
Ok so i was working the 4-9 shift that day. Boss Lady and Blue Eyes (he had the 11-4 shift) were there when I got there. About 5-10 minutes after I got there, Boss Lady's Ex showed up and went inside the house. I was taking the bowls over to the house because R washes them for us. I spoke to Ex and went back over to the kennel. I started walking dogs and Boss Lady and Blue Eyes left because she had to take him home. So I was outside in the yard walking dogs when S and Ex walked outside and started heading to Ex's car. I didnt think anything about it because S leaves with people all the time so i kinda just figured that R needed something for the dinner so they had to go pick it up. So I didnt really pay it any attention until I hear S call my name.
"Kris."
"Yea?"
"Can you go help my mom? The dogs got into a huge fight and there is blood everywhere. I have to take Ex to the hospital."
Oh. Fuck.
So I quickly put the dog I was walking back in their kennel and rushed over to the house. When I go inside the house, I don't see R. So I knew she was downstairs. I am walking to this like half door she has that seperates the ground floor and the down stairs when I see Daisy. Her face was kinda bloody so I made a mental note that apprarently she was involved in the fight. Then I walk down stairs and see R in the bathroom, which is straight in front of me, wiping the wall down with a rag. About the time I get to the bottom of the stairs, she looks up and sees me.
"Heard you needed some help over here."
"Kris you have no idea."
"Alright well what do you need me to do?"
"Let's check on Georgie. She is in the bedroom." So we walk into the bedroom. Georgie is laying on the floor bleeding. She is ok and alert but bleeding a little. I had never met Georgie before. I had seen her tons of times in the yard but I had never actually met her. So I was causious at first when I walked up to her because 1. she doesnt know who I am and 2. she is proabley in a lot of pain and I know sometimes dogs will lash out when they are hurt. So I walk up with the wet rag R gave me and gentle start wiping her face and neck down and checking for any deep wounds. For the most part it was mainly just surface wound. She had one semi deep wound on the back of her neck and one under her front leg but they werent too serious. Since Georgie didnt really know me she kept moving away when i would try to clean her up so R switched with me and told me to go check on Snowflake and Buttercup who were both in the back yard. So i went and check on them. Snowflake was completly time. We think he jumped on Buttercup so he had no injuries just blood on him. Buttercup had a gash behind her ear and the rest was really just surface wounds. I had accidently locked myself out when I went outside to check on Snowflake and Buttercup so I walked up and around and went back inside. While I was up there I checked on Dasiy. She was fine for the most part too. Just a few scrapes and 1 or 2 punture wounds but nothing life threating. So I went back down stairs to let R know that it seemed like Georgie was the most banged up and everyone else would be fine. After that I just started trying to clean up the blood that was on the walls and everywhere.
Eventually, R came out of the bedroom and wanted to bring Buttercup inside to see if she could look at the gash behind her ear. We took her in the bathroom first and then decided to put her in the bedroom with Georgie.
"They should be fine. They have always gotten along." R said. So I walked in there with her to try to clean up the blood in the bedroom. Right after we got in the room, Buttercup jumped up on the bed where Georgie now was laying. Out of now where Buttercup attacked Georgie. Me and R were the only ones there so we had to try to break them up. The next few moments are kinda a blur and slow motion at the same time. The dogs ended up on the floor. R had Buttercup and I grabbed Georgie. We had thrown a blacket over them so keep us from getting bit. I couldn't tell who was really grabbing who at this point but I knew if Georgie was biting Buttercup, I could stop her. So I grabbed Georgie's top jaw with one hand, and her lower jaw with the other and held her jaws apart so she couldn't bite Buttercup. Then we realized Buttercup was grabbing Georgie. I couldn't do anything to help that because I was keeping Georgie from attacking Buttercup. R was trying to get Buttercup off her and it just wasn't working. Evenutally Georgie started clamping down on my finger and the even though i had a blanket over her jaws it still hurt so i had to let go. I dont remember how but evenutally R got Buttercup off of Georgie. Then a few seconds later R lost her grip and Buttercup attacked her again. Now since I work at a place with dogs I had read up on how to break up a dog fight. So once R lost her grip on Buttercup, I walked up behind Georgie and grabbed her back legs and pick them up off the ground. This is called the wheelbarrow method. So i had Georgie by her hind legs and R finally got a hold on Buttercup again and I dragged Georgie into the bathroon (its has a door connecting the bathroom and that bedroom) and slammed the door. Once I got into the bathroom and closed the door I let go of Georgie's legs and i actually apologized to her for dragging her like that. She had had surgury on one of her back legs a few weeks before this fight so im sure me pulling on that leg didnt feel the best. So I am just in the bathroom with Georgie and R is in the other room with Buttercup and I am almost passing out in the bathroom from lack of oxygen because I cant breathe. I have been fightin off a cold for like 2 months so breaking up a fight like that didnt help the fact that I could breathe anyway. I just stood in there for a few minutes trying to catch my breath and then I walked up stairs where I had heard R go. She was on the phone with D telling them they had gotten into another fight. I asked her for some water and then asked her what had happened originally.
She said that Ex had walked in the house and went downstairs. Daisy bolted past him and ran down stairs too. I honestly feel like things might have been fine if that was the end of it. There might have been a minor scuffle with Snowflake and Buttercup but that would have been it. Dasiy gets along with everyone except Georgie (They got into a fight years ago and neither one have really gotten over it so R keeps them seperated.) Georgie was in the bedroom down stairs away from everyone else. So everything would have been fine. However Ex's dumb. ass. opened the damn bedroom door and let Georgie out so Georgie and Daisy got into a fight and then at some point Snowflake and Buttercup go into it. Ex has to go to the hospital because he got bit a few time or something i don't really know. Boss Lady got back as we were talking and we told her that Buttercup and Georgie had gotten into a fight. At that point I went back over to the kennel to finish walking dogs. Once Boss Lady left and I took the last of the bowls over to the house R and I went to check on Georgie. She was still bleeding and was more beat up than ever now. I told R she might need to go to the vet sine it had been like 30 - 45 minutes proably since the fight. So after that I went back over to the kennel and about and hour or two later R called me and asked me to come over there and help her and S load Georgie up in the truck to take her to the vet. Eventually we got her loaded up and they left and took her to the vet.
The next day I was supposed to come in and work 2-9 but when I woke up, I couldnt move. Apparently somewhere in me breaking up the fight and helping them lift Georgie into the truck, I pulled something in my back. So I had to text Boss Lady and tell her I couldnt come in.
Buttercup and Dasiy both went to get check out at the vet and they were fine. Georgie is coming home from the vet today because D is finally back from FL. I am not looking forward to going in today with Georgie being back because like we have seen with Daisy and her, Georgie doesnt forget. So her and Buttercup may not get along now. I really dont wanna have to break up another fight. I honestly dont think I could mentally handle it.
Well that's it for this post about our Thanksgiving from hell. Sorry if there is any typos. I am literally leaving to go to work in like 2 minutes so I dont have time to double check this whole thing.
