Frans got a new pupper last week, name's Johnny Utah.

Feb 27, 2023, 9:09 AM

I stopped by to meet him for the first time yesterday on my way to a rum tasting event (also real effin' cool, might share some of that in another post). Another friend stopped by with his dog, Finley, who is an adult Chow/Lab kinda mix, to play with 12 week old Johnny Utah and continue the socialization process. Pretty remarkable little pup, hasn't had a single accident in the house--like he was readymade housebroken. That doesn't really happen.

Anyway, Finley found this puppy to be annoying and was generally trying to get away from this thing nipping at his hindlegs and tail. But then maybe 10 minutes in, Johnny Utah starts doing zoomies around the yard, and Finley is like "aight, I can get down with this" and chased Utah around the yard some. This is like a 75 lb dog that would occasionally catch an 8 lb dog and give him a pretty good roll and tumble. Dogs doing dog things.

I'm about to leave to go drink rum, and as I'm walking out of the backyard gate, Johnny Utah starts yelping like crazy. Nobody saw for sure what happened, but Finley probably stepped on him while they were sprinting around. Friend picks him up, and the yelping doesn't stop for another full 2 minutes. Was favoring his left front leg, and we're like "uhhh, shit...is it broken?" X-ray at emergency vet, sure is. They kept him overnight and I think they're doing surgery today.

We're a pretty tightknit group of friends, and I'm just an outside observer in this case since I don't have a dog in this fight (you see what I did there and you appreciate it), but...would you have any expectations if you were Utah's owner? Probably looking at a couple grand to fix his broken wing. Or just dogs being dogs? I think I'm leaning towards the latter. Would be a little different if other friend just showed up with his dog, instead of being invited to bring his dog over.

Here's Johnny Utah at the vet's office this morning: