When we got back from Gulpha Gorge, my wife took Titan to the vet to have his left ear checked.  The vet sedated Titan and drained a lot of blood from the hematoma in the ear.  After the procedure was done, Titan was a little goofy so they loaded him up in the SUV and headed home. When they got home, Titan just wanted to lay down and sleep.  I noticed that his left ear was starting to fold over.  My wife told me the vet told her Titan’s ear appeared to have ligament damage and if that was the case, Titan’s ear would not stand up again.

As the week went on, Titan’s ear wasn’t getting better so my wife took him back to the vet. On this visit, the vet sedated Titan again and performed a minor surgery due to an infection in the ear.  After the surgery was over, the vet told my wife that he still didn’t know if Titan’s ear would ever stand back up. When my wife and Titan got home, I felt so bad for him.  He was goofy from the sedation and he just wanted to sleep.  To make things worse for him, he had a large cone on his head and that was driving him nuts. My wife and I again talked about the fact that Titan’s ear wasn’t going to stand back up and that broke our hearts. Titan’s ears have always been such a large part of his personality such as the “go big or go home” mentality.  The photographs below tell you how much personality those ears had.

When I let Choctaw outside to see Titan, she wanted to play and she didn’t understand why I wouldn’t let her play with him.  These two dogs play so hard all the time so Choctaw was a bit confused.  She was even more confused when she saw this large “thing” around Titan’s neck.  She looked at me like, “what is that?” When the sedation wore off and Titan seemed more alert, we took the cone off his head because it was stressing him out.  He kept running into everything and we could tell it was frustrating him.  We had to really watch Choctaw because she wanted to play so bad.

It was a long week trying to keep Titan from playing.  And, to make matters worse, Choctaw wasn’t helping either.  It was like having two toddlers on crack!!  (LOL)  As the week rolled on, Titan started to act like himself.  His ear was healing nicely, but the ligament had been damaged to much to hold the ear.  Titan now has one fully erect ear and one floppy ear.

Over the last eight months since Titan had the incident with his ear, he’s never missed a beat. This boy loves to play and as you can see, he loves his balls on a string. (LOL)

Next up, we say goodbye to 2019 and hello 2020!!