About a month ago Sadie started limping. I took her to the vet and they couldn't find anything obvious wrong with it, gave me some pain medicine and told me that if she didn't get better to bring her back for x-rays. Well I figured she sprained her leg/foot as she is an extremely active and agile dog. (we have taught her to "play football" she will lay down when Stephen says down, she sits up when he says set, and when he says hike and throws the ball she runs after it! SUPER CUTE! and we taught her to jump through a hula hoop among other "accomplishments") So to see my sad girl unable to run and play and jump just about broke my heart.
So we gave it a few weeks figuring a sprain takes a couple weeks to heal, and did our best to not let her run or jump etc (which was hard let me tell ya!). But after a month we said ok, she needs the x-rays! We took her last night and they couldn't do the x-ray so we go back monday, but our vet said she thought it was her knee, that she thinks it is a torn cruciate ligament. Which like our cruciate ligaments holds our knee together. Unfortunately this is most likely going to require surgery. The vet told us that the best place for her to go (and least expensive) would be a five hour drive in Alabama! So I am already worried about cost, but she HAS to have the surgery. Hopefully it won't be fully torn and she won't require surgery but lots of rest.
Right now our vet told us to keep her on "crate rest", which is basically Sadie in her crate 24/7 except potty time. If we can ensure her being calm and laying/sitting down she can be out for short periods of time. Sadly this is hard. I went and got her a new toy today to give her a little entertainment for her "crate rest". My poor poor Sadie girl!!
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