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While we were pitching today we had a little collateral damage outside.
The daughter and I were working on her change up. She is turning her wrist to late therefore the ball really is not coming in anything close to straight or slow. I'm ducking and diving and chasing balls all for the betterment of learning the new pitch for next season.
While all this practicing is going on my poor dog is running around aimlessly outside with us. He's a 4 year old Golden Retriever with not a care in the world what so ever. Walks around just happy to be alive with that goofy grin on his face. He finally parks himself off to the left of me catching about 7 feet off where the plate would be. I thought he would be ok where he was. I was was wrong. She throws a pitch that came in pretty fast and way outside (see above and turning the wrist to late) and catches him right below the eye and in front of the ear, straight on, no bounce at all. He yelped in pain, the daughter dropped to her knees crying her eyes out (she's 10) that she hurt he dog etc. I start to evaluate him, look him over, feeling his face etc. He seemed ok, didn't really guard the area at all. He started sneezing and when he did some blood came out. Well that's all my daughter had to see. She lost it..again.
I took him to the vet to get checked and a buck fifty later he made it clear with only a small scratch on his eye (which I think was there to begin with from his scratching, the ball never touched his eye) I called home, gave the wife the heads up and headed home. The daughter was waiting, still crying the poor kid. She hugged him, again he didn't know any better, he started malling her like normal and all was well.
Fast forward to later in the night. The wife is going into the bathroom to give the little one a bath, the dog is in front of the door and wanna take a wild guess what happens? Thunk...she opens the door right into his head..lol...the daughter screams at mom and the dog gives the goofy look again this time. All is back to normal is seems. Anyways, that was today's latest drama.
The daughter and I were working on her change up. She is turning her wrist to late therefore the ball really is not coming in anything close to straight or slow. I'm ducking and diving and chasing balls all for the betterment of learning the new pitch for next season.
While all this practicing is going on my poor dog is running around aimlessly outside with us. He's a 4 year old Golden Retriever with not a care in the world what so ever. Walks around just happy to be alive with that goofy grin on his face. He finally parks himself off to the left of me catching about 7 feet off where the plate would be. I thought he would be ok where he was. I was was wrong. She throws a pitch that came in pretty fast and way outside (see above and turning the wrist to late) and catches him right below the eye and in front of the ear, straight on, no bounce at all. He yelped in pain, the daughter dropped to her knees crying her eyes out (she's 10) that she hurt he dog etc. I start to evaluate him, look him over, feeling his face etc. He seemed ok, didn't really guard the area at all. He started sneezing and when he did some blood came out. Well that's all my daughter had to see. She lost it..again.
I took him to the vet to get checked and a buck fifty later he made it clear with only a small scratch on his eye (which I think was there to begin with from his scratching, the ball never touched his eye) I called home, gave the wife the heads up and headed home. The daughter was waiting, still crying the poor kid. She hugged him, again he didn't know any better, he started malling her like normal and all was well.
Fast forward to later in the night. The wife is going into the bathroom to give the little one a bath, the dog is in front of the door and wanna take a wild guess what happens? Thunk...she opens the door right into his head..lol...the daughter screams at mom and the dog gives the goofy look again this time. All is back to normal is seems. Anyways, that was today's latest drama.