Sunday, June 26, 2011

SKITTLEZ HAS A MISHAP

IMG_2201 While we were in Hell Creek, Skittlez fell down the steps of the motor home and banged into the door. I, of course, fell apart because I didn’t know if her leg was broken or not and we were out in the middle of no where.

She cried a little bit and was limping but she could walk on it so we figured it wasn’t broken. I gave her one of Scooter’s pain pills (for her back) and an hour later she seemed good to go.

Had to throw in a picture of our Scootz.IMG_2208

 

 

Every so often though, she would either start limping or would yelp when we picked her up or she jumped down from someplace. When we finally got back to Billings, we made an appointment to take her in and get her checked. We had to drop her off at 8:00 in the morning and we didn’t get her back until almost 3:00 in the afternoon. What a terribly long day we had.

 

IMG_2228 The good news is she’s back to almost perfect again. She had dislocated her shoulder but not completely so it was slipping and it only hurt sometimes. The vet manipulated it back into place. He showed us her x-rays and it seems that dachshunds have very shallow, almost flat, shoulder joints so it is really easy for them to dislocate it. He said to keep her calm (yea right!) and on pain pills for ten days and she should be just fine.

I thought the vet was going to try and keep her. He must have told me four times what a marvelous dog she was, how well behaved, how healthy she was, and that he could tell she was spoiled ( ya think?) but in a good way. Needless-to-say she came home with her Mama.

11 comments:

  1. OMG - that is so hard when the pups are hurt because we can't know if something is wrong and if so, how bad. I'm glad you took her in, and that she will be fine. Poor thing. But it probably hurt you more than it hurt her. :)

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  2. I am so glad she is doing well now. How scary!

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  3. So sorry to hear about Skittlez mishap. It's so scary when something happens to our fur kids and they can't tell us what is wrong. Glad she is okay - good luck on keeping her quiet!!

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  4. Hell,s Creek is living up yo it's name. We had temp high of 111, yesterday and they said maybe 114, today. (our own little bit of Hell)

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  5. Glad to hear the vet was able to help her. It is so hard when you know they are hurting but they can't tell you exactly what is wrong - just like kids when they are little.

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  6. Poor baby, glad she is getting better. When they hurt it is a sad thing.

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  7. I'm so glad you sweet girl is ok.....oh my HOW WE LOVE OUR ANIMALS!!

    xo

    Jo

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  8. Oh my, I hate it when our "kids" get hurt because they can't tell you what's wrong. I'm also glad she's healing. I bet she's been getting the special treatment ... and rightly so!!

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  9. so glad to hear that all is well with Skittlez!..have fun trying to keep her calm and quiet!

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  10. Know exactly how you feel when it comes to pet injuries whether they be big or small. Just rips & tugs at the the heart strings for sure. Motormouse wishes Scooter & Skittlez well:))

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  11. Sorry to hear about Skittlez accident but real happy to hear that she is doing well!

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