Corinne's Blog

I just witnessed a true act of compassion.

I was sitting in Louie’s room watching CSI with Louie while Chip

(Louie’s dog) was sitting at my feet chewing on an old circular bone.

We were getting to the end of the episode where all the good

stuff happens when all of a sudden we hear a yelp come from Chip

because he has gotten the bone stuck around his lower jaw and he

can’t get it off because his teeth are blocking it.

Instinctively seeing that the dog cannot free himself Louie

jumps up to try to calm and assist the dog…only to realize

that the bone is stuck on there and cannot be easily removed.

Chip is trying to run away and remove the bone himself and he

continues to yelp in pain as the bone obstructs his ability to

close his mouth properly.

This is serious and Louie and I know it…I watch helplessly as

Louie tries to assist Chip who has run into his Dog hut and is

panicking and not keep still enough for Louie to remove the

bone.

The only thing I can think to do to help is to stop some of the

commotion… I turn off the TV.

Louie stands up and runs down to the garage…This bone removal

requires tools or a trip to the vet will be needed…Louie

instructs me to keep Chip in one place, the dog is panicking and

tries running after his master I try to keep him calm and in the

hallway…the dog throws up and runs up to the Kitchen.

Louie returns with a huge pair of garden/ metal cutters with a

goal to cut the thick bone off his poor friend’s  All I can

think to do is try to calm the poor animal down so he stops

running away and so he won’t continue to panic and whine in

pain. It is extremely hard to see an animal in pain and I felt

my heart hurting when I saw the look in Louie’s face as he tried

to free his dog from pain at risk of creating more pain by

cutting the dog’s gums with the bone’s edges.

Louie thinks fast of a way to get the clippers into the open

slit between the dog’s chin and the bone…he goes and grabs a

spoon because he doesn’t want to cut the dog and the spoon could

provide more space. Louie calmly talks to Chip to try to get him

to stay still…he tells him that he is being a good dog and he

calmly orders chip to sit still…I am petting Chip and trying

to get him to stay in one spot in the Kitchen…after one failed

attempt and Louie accidentally getting bitten by the scared dog

Louie successfully is able to cut a small slit into the

bone…with hopes that with the new weakened bone the bone with

break free with a little pulling.

Sadly the cut to the bone does very little and the dog continues

to get his gums cut as they scrape against the bone. Louie’s

hands are now covered in drool and blood as he tries to break

the bone from Chip’s jaw…I remember thinking…what a

dedicated master Chip has, what love, what compassion this man

has for this creature, I really respect Louie for trying so hard

to save Chip’s life.

Louie says that he’d like to try again but now the dog is moving

to much to get the clipper near him.

I keep imagining the possible trip to the animal hospital we

might have to be taking…and the possibility of there maybe

being a mini saw somewhere that we could use and not hurt the

dog with…maybe a knife…but then I thought of how the dog was

moving his has spastically and ruled those ideas as unsafe and

unwise. “I really don’t want to have to take you to the vet

tonight buddy..” Louie says to Chip “…I can’t afford the vet

right now.” Louie adds in a calm soothing voice.

Louie instructs me to go down to his room and to look in a

cardboard box next to his bookshelf for a screwdriver…I’m

thinking to pry the bone open with. I run downstairs trying to

help in anyway I can…I hope the Chip doesn’t try to run away

from his master when I walk away.

I look in the box and I grab some tools a screwdriver, a hammer

and a small screwgun head that could be used as a chissel if

need be… I am greatful that right as I get back to the kitchen

that I hear the snap of the bone and see Louie smile as he frees

his child from his bonds.

Louie pulled it off and Chip tries to run away like Louie had

hurt or abused him, maybe to lick him wounds as dogs often do.

I was reminded of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and how Belle

tries to treat the Beast’s wound but the Beast just wants to

take care of himself.Belle’s act toward the Beast is a true act

of compassion.

Louie inspects Chip’s jaw to see that most of the damage done

will heal and that the dog will return back to normal and not

have to go to the vet today…I breath a sigh of relief. Louie

also inspects his hand for he recieved a pretty nasty bite that

has left a mark. Chip a dog that I’ve never seen or heard of to

hurt a fly must have been in a lot of pain to bite his master so

hard.

Chip runs around the apartment trying to run and clean his

wounds and I clean up the throw up that Chip left in the

hallway.

I tell Louie that Chip deserves a reward for being such a good

dog under such miserable circumstances and Louie runs for a box

or treats…When Louie Calls him Chip doesn’t respond and he

acts as if his master is going to try to hurt him as he offers

him a treat.

Louie figures that Chip isn’t in the mood for a hard snack and

he heads to the refrigerator for some cheese. I think Chip isn’t

coming because he is associating the pain he felt to his

master’s actions to help and not exactly to the bone itself.

Once again like in Beauty and the Beast when the Beast yells

“That hurts!” to Innocent Belle as she is cleaning his wounds.

Finally Louie manages to get Chip some cheese and right away I

can see the old spark return to Chip to please his master…the

drama for tonight is officially over and I decide to leave the

duo alone.

Louie said to Chip that he would start throwing away his bones

before they got that bad…”what if he’d been home alone” Louie

said, which made me think…I would probably panic in such a

situation…Louie said that the last time that happened he had

almost cried, this was the second time poor Chip had gotten a

bone stuck on his jaw.

I witnessed love between a Creature and his Master and I have

true respect and Honor for Louie Tran for showing his dog such

love, and saving the animal when he was helpless to help

himself. Love knows no boundaries.