After Murphy going lame on his front left elbow (which has ED) just before Xmas (but is now ok) and finally got the call fromt he vet yesterday to say they don't want to x-ray him and will leave it as they think it may have been more of a sprain/twist rather than the ED so that was good news.
Hubby took Murphy & Jesse out for a walk this morning, and came home about 30 mins later (I thought to myself that was a quick walk) and then saw Murphy hobbling in, he is totally lame on his back left leg, not putting it on the ground at all , Hubby said Murphy and Jesse had been playing with a little border terrer and then Murphy went and had a sniff over towards a fence and the next thing Murphy gave out an almight yelp, hubby said he'd never heard anything like it :o , apparently even other people who were walking came over to see if he was alright, hubby thought at first that maybe Murphy had stood on some glass and had a look but no, it really does seem that Muprhy may have snapped his cruicate ligament , for those of you that don't know, Murphy snapped his other cruicate in April last year and had a TPLO op and then got an infection and was not right until end of September 2005, it was a very emotional time for us all, watching Muprhy going through what he did and then with all the xrays etc
I've spoken to the vet and he too says it's sounds as if its the cruicate but am to rest him and up the Rimadyl and take him to the vets on Monday, if its just a twist he will be much improved by Monday, but I've got a horrible feeling
I remember when they did the other op last year, they said there was a 70% chance the other would go within a year !!
Poor Murphy, he has had such a cr*p time of it, and he's such a happy dog, he jsut doesn't deserve this
Please can I ask you all to send healing thoughts for my special dude.
