Broken jaw survivor gets the gold in Puppy Olympics tug-o-war!

Was it a head injury? Probably yes, a minor one, but this puppy's greater problem was a fractured jaw. He lay still until we lifted him to the ambulance.

On the treatment table his eyes did not seem utterly disoriented; rather, he simply seemed to be in great pain. We gave him pain medicine and anti-inflammatories, and let him rest and get hydrated prior to jaw-repair surgery the following day.

We are so lucky that our surgeon has a great deal of experience repairing fractured jaws, but there is always an interval of concern about a jaw injury patient's ability to chew post surgery.

Little Tigger did not, at first, want to open his mouth. When we syringe-fed him, we could see, though, that swallowing his own food felt much better to him than a drip. A little love went a long way to brighten his prospects. And Tigger, well, Tigger had a lot of playing ahead, and he was determined to get that new jaw in good shape for tug-o'war.

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