Doggie play date gone wrong

Beauty the wonder dog had her first impromptu play date this afternoon when our friend Sara stopped by with her dog Mikah to go swimming in the Willamette - the dogs, not us. The dogs were playing well, sort of...Beauty's a bit of a ball hog, the cool thing about that is she learned how to swim with two balls in her mouth. We eventually lost one ball to the river, it sank after an aggressive session of dog chewing from Beauty, leaving us with one ball for two eager dogs. Then the mastiff came trotting up. Here's the mathematical explanation:

Beauty the wonder dog + one mastiff = Beauty the injured dog

The ball was thrown into the water, Beaut went after the ball, the mastiff went after Beaut. The mastiff wasn't trying to hurt her but the huge ass dog has about 100 pounds on Beaut and when it jumped on her, it took a chunk of her flesh out with its claws. Ouch. Our little Beaut is a trooper, though. Even with this open gash on her side she wanted to keep playing.

We arrived at the DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital at 5:07pm. By 8pm, Beaut had been seen and taken away by Doctor Downes and we were on our way to McMenamins T&P for a bite to eat. Because Beaut's wound was superficial, we were told she was likely to be bumped in the event a more seriously injured animal showed up. It's now 1:58am and I called to check on her - Beauty is outside for a pottie break but is next in line to get sewn up. The doc has to give her a local anesthetic so she'll stay still while being stitched up. Poor puppy. She has definitely earned some treats for being such a great dog today. Since I happened to have my camera with me, I've got some pics of the day. I've included one of her gash. If you are at all sensitive to that sort of thing, now's the time to look away.