I'm going to start doing short walks with her since she isn't limping at a slow pace. We are going to try to s-l-o-w-l-y build her back up. I'll let her tell me when she is ready to go for longer walks. She WANTS to go for a walk so bad but I have always just brought her back inside, afraid of over-doing it. I want to keep her from over-doing it, but don't want to prevent forward progress, either.
Yes. She actually had a slight difference between the legs in the pre-op x-rays because she was not using the leg for a week, and hadn't been putting full weight on it on and off for god knows how long when the partial cruciate tear wasn't diagnosed. It wasn't noticeable at the time, though. Now her leg is really scrawny because she has been on strict "bed rest" and had been bearing most of the weight on her good leg.
We went on our first walk today. Funny story, actually...
I go for my first walk with my gimpy-legged dog, and come across a gimpy-legged bird. It was a very pretty Cedar Waxwing caught in a tree with Teflon Plumber's tape wrapped around his leg. After some work prying him from the vines in the tree and then cutting the tape from his leg, I brought him home. I dropped him off at a small-bird wildlife rehabber.
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Re: Cruciate Injury
[Re: Lesya Zaichenko ]
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It was a very pretty Cedar Waxwing caught in a tree with Teflon Plumber's tape wrapped around his leg. After some work prying him from the vines in the tree and then cutting the tape from his leg, I brought him home. I dropped him off at a small-bird wildlife rehabber.
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