Hello,
My eleven week old puppy had recently gotten stepped on and i thought it was just a simple break and that it could be fixed with cast. i had to wait an extra day becasue i vouldnt come up with the 300 at that moment. The day after this happened he tried walking but his left back leg just dangled there so i was hoping just a simple dislocation.
The day we went for X-rays was one of the most gut wrenching days of my life. They showed me two x-rays and said that he had a fracture at the hip and that the cartlidge is no good anymore and therefore his leg wouldnt grow like the other one. They gave me three options, 1. was to put him down (no way in hell i was letting my baby die becasue of getting stepped on) 2. was to amputate (she made it sound like she didnt think we would wanna waste that on our baby) 3. she wanted us to sign him over to a lady to amputate it herself and then give him to someone elses family, we wouldnt have had any contact with him and would have had to pay half of the amputation bill. ! i was furious but i couldnt find the money so i even had the papers signed over to the lady when i decided to try one last person (my Dad) . I will never be able to thank him enough for doing this for us. He ended up lending me the money for the first half and they cut up the signed paper and sent him for surgery( i Still wasnt even able to hold my puppy). I think they made me do this all way to fast and all i can think is that they dont know what theyre doing but im not a vet so i have nothing to back it up. If they did this to my dog when it could have been a simple fix i will be furious and would most likely start something.
i called to see if it all went well at noon and they were saying he was just getting sewn shut but that everything went fine so far. i got a call later that day tell me he is in stable condition now but when he came off of the anithesia he went from heart failure and it took and few for them to get him back (they should really leave that info out) but they wanted to keep him an extra night on IV and to monitor how pain killers went. So, of coarse, being the worry wart i am, i spent all night hoping i wasnt going to get a call in the morning when they arrived saying he didnt make it.
We called at 9am to stop my worrying and they say hes being his old self and he is trying to walk around already but he keeps failling to the side with no back leg. It made me cry to know that hes doing good and i got to say its nice crying for a happy reason after all of this stress. i really think after all this i wanna start believing in something or writting or just something with meaning it almost made me realise what i have. i know some people think its sad when a human cares this much for an animal but he is like the most positive puppy ever i have never been able to get mad around him. he makes me happy and stress free. Today will be the best day of my life when i get to see my puppy who i thought i was going to have to loose!
P.S: i think i needed to start a blog for my sake mainly, i also need some clarifacation that this has happened before , especially an eleven week old puppy. But for now i will try to think positive and just realize that i still have my baby atleast! and i will definatly blog again with some pictures also once he is at home safe!
YAY BLAZE. AND YAY:-) BLAZE’S MOM AND YAY 🙂 BLAZE’S GRANDPA:-) 🙂 🙂
Needless to say, you’ll always want to alert the vet should he ever have to go under anesthesia again of potential complications! It sounds like the procedure was definitely necessary! So sorry he was stepped on and that it caused such awful damage…….puppies can certainly get underfoot!
You hang in there and know that Blaze will do great! If OK don’t already have any wood floors covered with rugs, OK ma want to do that so he won’t slip.
The very best to you and please keep us posted!!
Sally and Happy Hannah
Just wanted to add, it’s SAD when people DON’T care that much for a pet!! They are missing out on an incredible ability to give .love and receive love! You get that! Good for you!
Sally and Happy Hannah
Welcome and thank you for sharing Blaze’s story. Drop by the forums and other blogs and you will definitely find you are not alone!
Best wishes for Blaze’s speedy recovery. As a young pup he should do well and never realize he’s missing his spare. Please keep us posted.
Thank you and he almost seems the same just kinda falls over to the one side but still wants to chew on his bones and toys so I hope the whole healing process goes this well
Welcome Jessica and Blaze…thanks so much for sharing your story. It sounds like Blaze is a little go getter and before you know it he’ll be running around like he isn’t even missing a leg. We look forward to seeing photo’s.
Thank you and actually other than a bit of whinning and wobbling he seems like the same little puppy ill post a picture I have once I go on my computer 🙂 so far so good !