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$507.14 later...
...and we have Milo back from the Animal Emergency Hospital all stitched up.
Today he decided he had to meet and greet with our neighbor dog, Spencer, who was sitting peacefully on the other side of our chain link fence, so he climbed said fence like a ladder and hopped over the top to do it. J. and I actually watched him do this. I didn't intend to let him go over, but since this is the third escape attempt, I wanted to see with my own eyes how he was accomplishing it (and then he hopped over before I could stop him). The previous two times had been uneventful - if you can call breaking up a romp between two large dogs and herding yours home uneventful - but this time Milo paused at the top to redistribute his weigh and, in doing so, scraped and lacerated his thighs on the twined prongs at the top of the fence.
I didn't even notice that he'd injured himself because he was so frisky playing and romping, and then he found some disgusting mess at the top of the hill to roll in and I saw his open wound.
To anyone who has a pet, I would give this simple advice: tell them to postpone an illness or injury until Monday. Weekend emergency visits are expensive. I paid more for Milo's little stitch up than I did for Rosie's whole amputation. Sigh. When I heard the original estimate ($750), I actually felt sick. I've been doing my best to save money in small ways, and then something stupid and preventable costs so much.
Anyway, we have Milo back. It was quiet without him, and we missed him. J. went around saying, "It's so quiet without Milo," and moping which was kind of funny since Milo's puppy ways get on his nerves sometimes. But not today. He moped and worried and googled "anesthesia dog personality," then started to worry that Milo's treatment would permanently alter his sunny outlook and goofy ways.
In other news: I've been ripping through the last three books in Julia Spencer-Fleming's Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series which only gets better as it goes along. I'll try to have a review of book 4, To Darkness and To Death, up in a few days. I've been reading obsessively, putting up pears, and working on the Special Title Listings for AAR, so I haven't had as much time to blog this week.