My young puppy was diagnosed with Ruptured Crucial Ligament - Page 2

Stupid ATT and their DSL, 4 days without the internet. When you are running a small business that sucks.

I also have a nagging feeling that SOMEBODY whose kennel is int he backyard "kind of" nipped at the DSL wire line a bit. Can't 100% prove it, but...

Anyway, thnanks everyone for well wishes. He has been limp free for a few days, I guess Deramaxx did help. Leashed walks he did good, wanted more, but he always wants more, so little tough love applied there. I did let him have a short 5 minutes run last night doing our version of "blinds search" - meaning run up to a tree I point to with "Go Search" and see if there is a squirrel there (at 1 AM... he he), then do a few more in the opposite direction. After a month of constant red rocket launch and laying around he is almost back and that brings me joy.

Will I tell the other vet, you asked? NO, I see no point and she brought a lot of grief to me for a short period, as I will just kind of bluntly blurt out what I think, as I always do, I am that type hell or high water.

Maybe she is a competent vet, could be, I don't know, and I don't care. But with her fancy River Oaks office, she deals on a daily basis with Shitzu dogs, those stupid wiener yapping dogs that a lot of overweight people around here like to have, the horse face "upper class Republican" dogs like the Bushes have, I don't kno the breed. A little black rat with a horse face, whatever it is, cockers, that kind of stuff. I don't think she sees many, if any of GSDs, let alone a Troll and Yoschy grandson.

The only reason I went there in the first place was, in the beginning, like I said before, I thought it was a sprained muscle, so I need to get him to a dog chiropractor. There is only 2 of them in Houston, one is in the way the hell out there Redneckville and one is closer. According tot he TExas law, to touch and do chiro on your dog they have to have a signed letter of recommnedation fro "your vet". My dog does not have "his vet". I took him twice to a vet who did shots required and some food supplements etc... She flat refused to sign the letter, so the chiropractor said, just bring him to that office, I'll be there that day and the vet there can look him over and sign the letter. I said fine, let's do it. That's how I ended up there.

I am sure she will hear of it later on through the wire, as I will take the dog to that chiropractor later on once or twice, and the chiro seems to go to that office to do her stuff, once or twice a month.

Either way, 2 more weeks of going half speed and we should be back to business.

OT: Congrats on my TD of Greater Sch Club of Houston Dena McGowan for making the Sch3 club in the new issue of Schutzhund USA magazine! Great lady and excellent person (who doesn't like a Schutzhund 3 DVM who has guns and trained Shepherds in her van!). That's Texas.

 

 I gave the dog more friggin' massage in the last 3 weeks than I did to my wife!



HAHAHAHA!!! Sounds like my husband whenever one of our dogs is sore. 

Thank goodness the first vet didn't pressure you into jumping into surgery!   We dealt with pano in our big boy Brago until he was about 16 months IIRC.  He did a LOT of swimming for exercise.  Pano is certainly frustrating but still...a halleluyah diagnosis after thinking ruptured cruciate!