Storm's New Outfit
Take a look at Storm's new outfit. She's got a new collar and a thigh-high boot!!! Nah, just joking.
I feel really bad for her. We were playing around last night and she got a hyper spurt and started doing the "bull run". (You know the run when they tuck their butt down and run like they're sitting!) Well, she tried to run on the cushions of the couch where you lean up against and her right hind leg got caught between the cushions, she turned to run at me, and that's when it happened. YELP! And then she started limping. :(
Poor Stormie! *sniff-sniff*
This morning she went to the vet & he put some wrappings around her leg. He said that she has some torn legaments or tendons (?I don't know.). But since we brought her in so quickly, hopefully the wrapping would work, but if it didn't, she'd have to have surgery. She's got to wear that for 2 weeks. Do you know how hard it is to keep something on a dog for that long!!?!??!??!
And of all days, it finally started to rain. It hasn't rained in months here. BUT, Storm's wrappings can't get wet. So we have to put a plastic bag on her leg before we take her out. 
*Geesh* I'm glad it's raining, be really, really needed it... but today????
That Elizabethian collar makes it so hard for her to move around. She keeps bumping into things. When she sniffs the ground or goes to look out the glass door, she looks as if she is "suction cupped" to it. She's a quick learner though, she's already figured out how to get to her foot, which this collar is suppose to protect! *sigh*
9 comments:
Oh my poor dear Stormy!!! Why are dogs getting hurt playing now? Spanky fractured his leg playing in the back yard plaing with his teaser ball, whe all of a sudden came that aweful sound of and hurting YELP! He's in full leg cast too. but not the collar as he knows the cast is protecting the pain in his leg and not trying to remove it.
How aweful we feel when our kids get hurt. As if we should have prevented it somehow, and yet we couldn't have.
I hope she heals very soon and make sure to remind her that now she knows what Gramma felt like the day she ran to chase the squirrel.
Poor Gramma, Poor Storm and poor Spanky. hugs to them all from me.
I wanted to cry... if I only hadn't been playing around with her and gotten her hyper.
Poor Stormie. She looks o.k. though. She will be fine, just give her a little time. And don't blame yourself, it was just an accident. Angelita
We wish Stormie a speedy and full recovery. She doesn't look fazed by it one bit!
True about bad timing with the rain. Let's hope surgery is not going to be necessary.
Take care you two!
I can't believe Storm got hurt playing like that! Cody does that bully butt run all the time! He was just playing with my dad the other night running around with his butt tucked under all over the house!
Now I am going to be worried about him running like that! Geez, give Stormy Loo a big hug for me! She will feel better soon!
Laura
Thank you everyone for your well wishes to Storm. I had to take her to the vet on Monday to have her leg re-wrapped. And again today. But the tape & stuff was cutting into her leg where it looked as if it was swelling just a tad, so they told me to leave her leg alone & not wrap it again. But I have to leave her e-collar on so she won't gnaw at her paw because it's a little irritated.
Now the Dr. Vet says he thinks it just may be stretched (?) & not torn. I just hope she doesn't have to have surgery. I keep thinking that maybe she just sprained it.
hi there,
am i late to wish Storm a speedy recovery?
hey.. u know what? i saw the same 'megaphone like thing' (collar?) on the neck on one of my neighbour's doggie, but i don't know what's the purpose of that thing :)
Hi jellyfish! The collar (known as an elizabethian collar, because it looks like the collars that people wore in England a VERY, VERY long time ago) makes it so the dog cannot chew or lick on their "ouchies". For example if a female dog gets spayed, the belly has stitches and the e-collar keeps them from being able to chew at the stiches.
ah ha... now it makes sense. thanks for the great explanation.
cheers!
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