Our unlucky dog- Blaze!!!

This is our poor dog that only has one eye, and now has a broken leg. What will be next?!?!

We have had our dog Blaze for about 1 1/2 years. He was only a couple of months old when we got him. I didn't think that an animal would be harder to raise then my kids, but he has. He has had more happen to him in his short life then more dogs do in a life time. In November of last year I let him outside and a couple of hours later he came back in and his right eye was hanging out of it socket. I just about died and rushed him up to the vet. They said a dozen things could have happened, but they weren't sure exactly how it did. The only thing they did know was that the eye was not savable and they had to take it out that day. He had to stay the night and then wear a "lamp shade" on his neck for 2 weeks. We obviously don't have insurance on our dogs, so we ended up paying about $400.00 for this surgery. I don't even know if I have spent that much on one of my kids. Thank goodness for insurance on them!!!

Our second episode with the poor dog just happened on Friday. I got a call from Chad while I was at. He told me that him and Peyton decided to go look at Kalon and Amanda Downing's baby pigs and they were backing out of the shed, Blaze was behind them and Chad ran him over with the truck. He said he felt the THUD and looked to see Blaze running into the field. He tried to get out and see the damage, but as you could imagine Blaze wanted nothing to do with him. Can you blame him!!!! After returning from seeing the pigs he checked him out and could tell that he had a broken leg or hip. He took him to the vet and they did x-rays and found it was just his leg. They put a cast on it and kept him over night again to make sure that there were no internal injuries. He also has to wear that dumb "lamp shade" thing around his neck again. (I think that is the most annoying thing for the poor dog) No insurance again, and $250.00 later, I'm not so sure we should keep putting money into this dog. I'm afraid with his luck, he might not make it to the age of 2. My kids love him to pieces and he is a good dog, so we feel like we need to do everything we can to keep him around. I just have to keep reminding myself that it is worth it.