u/knz-rn

My friend graciously offered to take Lil Sebastian on a walk for us while we were at work. She had him on a lead and was walking our neighborhood when a pit bull came bolting out of a house that had the door open and latched onto his neck.

My friend tried hitting and kicking the dog but it didn’t let go, 3 men came over and wrestled the dog until he let go and ran off. I believe one of the men suffered a mangled finger trying to get the pit’s jaw off my dog.

A lovely women pulled over and comforted my friend and then grabbed a towel to wrap my dog up and drove my friend to a vet. She stayed with my friend until she had her fiance come.

Our little guy is ok. Seb has 40 sutures and a wound drain in his neck but he’s eating lots of cheese and peanut butter and will be ok.

If you are any of the people in the above story thank you so so much for being there and helping. I do have a few of your contact numbers I will be reaching out shortly.

Now on to the logistics: Animal Management apparently came by the house but the owners were a bit strung out and denied the dog was there. Apparently as the owner, I’m the one who has to make a complaint so I left a voicemail for the AM contact person and I’m waiting to hear back. We luckily have pet insurance to pay the $1.1k vet bill. But does anyone know what happens now? How do we get the dog removed? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it before but now I’m terrified to walk by that house which is only a few down from my own. Anyone navigate something like this?

Update! I talked to AM and sent them photos of the wound as well as the invoice from the vet and they said they don’t even have to wait for formal statements-the injury is severe enough they’re going to attempt to seize the dog today. Not sure if that’s with or without warrants. But he did talk me through how they can obtain warrants and search the house to get the dog out of there.

My husband and I got a grey diagnosis at 21 weeks. It's a super rare brain deformity (less than 200 cases in medical literature, ever) so doctors can't give the most amazing advice at what life will look like but based on the cases--it's not good. My thought is that the brain is pretty fucking important organ and if it's not formed properly I can't imagine life would be too amazing.

I won't name the condition because I don't want people from that tiny community finding my post lol. But it's basically the entire cerebellum has not formed properly. It has no vermis and instead of 2 hemispheres it is completely fused together.

The FB community is sooooo incredibly "positive" like, "doctors said my kid would never walk or talk but look at him go!!!" and the child is still physically disabled, or has severe ASD, or cannot drive (or crashes their car because of impulsive behavior), or is violent, or has a chronic pain syndrome, or has an entire list of other diagnoses as well... But the general consensus in the group is all "doctors don't know everything, my kid is amazing"

and ugh. I get it. I feel for the parents who didn't get the diagnosis until after their kid was born and missed milestones and got an MRI that showed a PARTIAL fusion of cerebellar hemispheres. But my kid's brain is so obviously fucked up they could tell from the initial ultrasound.

We are still waiting for a fetal MRI to look at alllll the brain structures even my untrained eye can tell by looking at the ultrasound that it isn't right.

We are lucky that all of our friends, coworkers, medical professionals, understand. Unfortunately my mom is a huge pro-lifer and refuses to accept or respect our choice--even reaching out to parents with kids with the condition, and offering to raise our boy herself (ugh).

I just wish I could be as selfish and self-righteous as the parents who refuse to terminate and make their kid be born to suffer an incredibly hard life because they won't make this choice. But no, I'm the bad guy.

I bought 3 tickets because it wouldn’t let me purchase just 2 and leave 1 seat by itself. I bought the tickets back in October for my husband and I and forgot about it until a few days ago when I got a reminder. Now all of our friends have plans and can’t make it.

So open offer to third wheel my husband and I and enjoy some improv tonight 😂 we’re 33/34, moved here from the US 4.5 years ago, and I like to think we’re pretty cool. Also fine if you just want the ticket and not talk to us at all other than entering together lol

I’ve been feeling flutters on/off since 16 weeks. And I kept referring to him as a can of beans because it told my husband it feels like I have a can of beans in a hoodie pocket but on my insides. Ha. For about a month prior to the last week he was sitting in my lower left abdomen and I could feel where he was sitting. Then suddenly over the last week I’ve felt nothing. I haven’t felt flutters and I don’t feel pregnant at all. I’m hoping my uterus just expanded and he got into a position where I cannot feel him. But I think waiting the 8 days until my anatomy scan is going to be torture. Also we just moved house so I can’t find what box I packed my Doppler in to even reassure myself.

Had this happened to anyone else?

We are moving houses soon but will only be 1km away from our current place. The new house has a giant sunroom off the back that we plan on making the cats’ room for at least 2-4 weeks. The problem is they’re indoor/outdoor cats. Well we tried really hard to have them be indoor only it worked for about a year and then eventually they escaped while we had a pet sitter and it was just impossible trying to keep them in 100% of the time again.

I’m not very worried about our ginger boy because he’s always been a home body and never wanders far at all. He’s always on the deck or in the garden. I think once he adjusts to the new place he will stay close. I’m more worried about our tortie girl who sometimes adventures off for a day or two before coming home. We will be so close to our old home I’m worried she will turn up there trying to get in 😩