Close Call, young dog and trebble hook

[Birdguy]

So, I get home from deer hunting yesterday to find my son (age 7) fishing in the turtle pool in the yard. He is using a hot spot lure in chrome with a treble hook snagging whatever he can make float in the pool and having a fantastic time. Me, being the buzz kill of his young life, say something like this.... I do not care if you do that just DO NOT leave that hook anywhere but in you tackle box as that lab pup we have will end up with the hook in him at some point. Do you understand me??? That day ends uneventful and all is good with the world. Today he gets home from school and is doing his chores the Wife goes to get the daughter from girl scouts and I am watching the only portion of the baseball play offs I have had the chance to. Just after the I hear the gate close and the Wife leave, my son is screaming bloody murder running to the house. I jump up open the door and he is screaming he did not do it and does not know how but our lab pup has the same lure I talked to him about yesterday stuck under his right upper eye lid . SON OF A *****! I grab the dog and look at it real close my son is paniced and screaming. I tell him to get me some wire cutters hoping I could make a miracle happen but soon realize the dog is too strong and I lack the required 15 hands to try to hold him. The dog is surprisingly calm so I just pet him and try to keep him from pawing his eye. I have the boy get my phone and call the Wife she does not answer. I call again still no answer. I call my brother who lives 5 miles away and he is on his way. The Wife calls back and she is headed home also. I get my wallet and carry the dog to the driveway, the wife pulls up I throw the dog in and get in next to him. He flips around in the seat catching the lure in the seat back and pulls the lure out of his eyelid ! My brother pulls up the dog jumps out to bark at the intruder. I grab the dog and he looks absolutely just fine, I can not believe it. The Wife had called the vet on the way home and said they could not see us for an hour or so as they currently had four emergencies in the waiting room. That was an hour and a half ago. The dog still seems just fine acting totally normal, listening, playing and just being a puppy, he is not swiping at the eye or even blinking it funny. He will spend the evening under close supervision. We have an appointment in the morning to have him looked at but how lucky are we today . My son put away the fishing gear and assured me and the dog he will not fish in the yard EVER again. My son still does not know how the dog got that lure. He says it was put back in his tackle box and the box was closed but not latched when the dog stepped on it and it tipped over and spilled. Today was the luckiest day in this dog owners life. Please do not let this happen at your house.

[TEX-X]

jeebus!!!!  you got lucky lucky....hope your pup is okay

[DOUBLELUNG]

Wow, deja vu.  I was seven, came back from fishing and leaned the rod, baited with a worm on the hook, against the wall of the house on the front porch.  A 14-week old blue tick pup named 4-spot started the commotion - hooked through the lip!  Wire cutters and he was ALMOST good as new - I sure felt like poop though.

[dogtuk]

Wow is right about 6 years ago my father and i where fishing on a river bank and he reeled in his line and set the pole in the holder and walked away leaving the baited hook hanging down just above ground level he has done this several times in his long fishing career well dexter his fishing buddy a weener dog decided that the ball of eggs hanging there looked pretty good and he tried to eat them and the number 2 steelhead hook got stuck in his tongue it took the nurse at the vets office my father and i to hold that little dog still for the vet to get in there with a set of wire cutters and cut the hook out you talk about a mad little dog both the dog and my father are gone now and i still get a laugh out of that one i do miss them both

[Buschingc]

Wow... Thats one lucky dog... I hope everything works out for ya.. I bet your boy was scared for his life..lol..

[Birdguy]

Just a quick update. It has been a week and the pup and boy are fine. The dog shows absolutley no ill effects of the lure under his eyelid. Still do not know how it worked out so well but all is good. Here is a picture of him. I hope.

[carpsniperg2]

glad to hear everything is fine

[huntncoug]

Deja Vu for me as well, when my Lab Blue was a couple months old he did about the same thing.  When I would leave the house for a few hours I would lock him in my bedroom.  I had done in several dozen times before and it was never a problem.  One day we decided to do a quick drift boat fishing trip from  Ben Howard to Monroe on the Sky.  I was gone about five hours and when I got home all heck had broken loose.  I had a Castmaster spoon in my change jar and somehow he found it.  When I opened my door there was blood splattered all over the walls and poor Blue was waiting for me with his moth full of a treble hook.  It was through his tongue, lip, and gums.  My girlfriend is a vet tech and she couldnt get it out.  So we rushed him to the vet and 500 bucks later he was just fine