![]() We had a follow-up appointment in two days to see whether or not an exploratory surgery was needed to find and remove the now likely foreign body. He squeezed a bunch of pus and Cookie limped out with a poultice bandage and antibiotics. The toes were indeed very unhappy and sore. We called our vet whether he could see us that day and went from the farm straight to his office. This time the foot looked very angry, with a lump that looked like an abscess now, and overall unhappy tissue. ![]() She had a great time.Īnd then she went lame again. Playing with JD, running around, couldn’t settle down for a moment. It was her first time there and you can imagine how excited she was. Since she was walking well, and really needed some exercise an entertainment, the next day we took her to the horse farm. Things were looking good and we hoped that this might have been the end of it. The next day she started walking normally on that foot, so we took her for a short walk as well. Other than the lameness and general swelling there was nothing that would look like an entry wound.Ĭookie had to mostly rest, with just short potty walks. We were still hoping that it might have been a sting. That was a huge relief to us.Ĭookie came home with Deramaxx and instructions that if the signs didn’t improve by the end of the week, they will need to surgically look for a foreign body in the foot. The conclusion was that the leg is fine and the problem is with the foot. Not the knee after all?Ĭookie’s foot looked somewhat swollen and the vet got pain response when playing with the toes. She did not elicit a drawer sign or any other indication of a problem with the knee. The vet examined her leg up and down, feeling everything and playing with the knee. At the veterinarianĪs we returned, we immediately made an appointment with a local vet.Īt least by then, Cookie started getting used to having only three legs to use because, at first, she seemed quite lost as to how to move about with one leg out of commission. “And so it begins again,” I thought to myself with my stomach in knots. With our history, though, I wasn’t holding my breath. And then there was the potential finding of the venom sac … Those signs were somewhat hopeful, as they were different. On the other hand, it seemed that Cookie didn’t want to put any pressure on the foot, even when sitting or laying down. When sitting, Cookie sat normally, not with the injured leg kicked out to the side as Jasmine would. However, Cookie didn’t seem to have any problems with fully bending and extending the leg there was no hesitation or resistance there. Those are hallmark symptoms of a busted knee. They both were fully lame on the leg, with the occasional toe-touch. There we a couple of things we felt were different between Cookie’s and Jasmine’s lameness. ![]() We loaded Cookie into the bus and on the way back home we were. We did give Cookie some Benadryl, but it didn’t seem to have made much of a difference. Hubby thought it might have been a sharp weed, but that just wouldn’t convince me. If it was, then I could buy the degree of lameness we were seeing. Then I recalled that once I got a wasp sting in my arm and as I instinctively slapped the wasp, similar looking slimy pouch-like thing remained on my arm too. It was snotty, slimy, pouch-like thing but not like any kind of snot I’ve seen come out of a dog before. Insect sting?Īs I was packing up, I remembered that in the morning Cookie came for a visit in the trailer and I found something odd on the blanket. And it would be easier to keep her calm, as well as see a vet. Our house is well-equipped to accommodate a lame dog. You can imagine how worried I was.Īs she remained lame through the day, we decided to cut the trip short, regardless of what this was. I remembered the two tumbles she took when she landed on the deck with more enthusiasm than control. I’d certainly take an injured foot over an injured knee any day.īut I had a hard time buying that a foot injury, seen only as minor irritation between the pads, could result in such a complete lameness. A little prick in a foot could cause this? ![]() Hubby recalled that in the morning as she was running, she stopped suddenly and started fussing with it. But when Jasmine injured her cruciate, there was no swelling and no pain reaction to palpation we could elicit either. There was some irritation in the foot, otherwise, we couldn’t put our finger on any other problem. But Cookie is young, seemed healthy … and we didn’t get a chance to get her insured yet … It looked way too familiar-very much like a busted knee ligament. ![]()
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