Forum: Bryce


Subject: My dog's foot. (big picture)

xenic101 opened this issue on Jun 04, 2005 ยท 29 posts


xenic101 posted Sat, 04 June 2005 at 10:53 PM

Here it is. three of the four bones are broken. The dog is sixteen years old. At his age they give him a fifty/fifty chance of healing. At his age there is a chance he'll break his hip while in the splint.

He's supposed to be on cage rest. He hasn't been in a cage since he was neutered 15 years ago. Heck, he hadn't worn that harness for six months before now. He usually slept when we weren't home anyways, so we are just putting him in our bedroom when we're out. He just lays on his pillow when we're home.

He looks so sad. I was worried that he wouldn't survive the stress of the first night, but he did ok. Now I'm worried about him getting depressed during the next eight weeks he'll be imobile. At his age, if he decides to stop living, he will.

He's not really eating now either. Not anywhere near what he used to. My five year old son can get him to eat out of his hand. Which is a good bonding exercise, since he's the one that dropped the brick that broke the foot.

xenic101 is worried about his dog.
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