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My youngest dog is currently in surgery for her knee...waiting to get the call to see how things went...
 
Good luck. Hoping everything goes great and she is back on her feet in no time.
 
Waiting for the good news…. :)
 
:ty: Reba, Angel and WDYS! I also really liked your HUG, WDYS!

The surgeon called us and let us know Kaylee did well - the repair was a straight forward repair....50% tear of bad ligament; remaining portion was weak and soft, so she removed it. No meniscus damage, which is a common part of this problem. The bone surface looks fairly good, some changes but nothing really alarming. She'll stay overnight and in the morning we'll get a call between 6 and 8am, hopefully, as to the update on how she did overnight, if she ate any of the food we brought, etc. She has to pee and eat a little, and be secure <assisted> on her feet before we can bring her home. We picked up a sling at the vet. office where the vet rehab specialist first saw her and took the x-rays that led us to seek a surgeon.

When we dropped her off, we left her with the soft stuffy toy that she came to us with as a baby puppy, and one of my un-washed t-shirts, and a blanket from her toy basket.

So...happy news!!:D::D:
 
So happy to hear she is OK. Another thing to be thankful for.
 
dogmom said:
:ty: Reba, Angel and WDYS! I also really liked your HUG, WDYS!

The surgeon called us and let us know Kaylee did well - the repair was a straight forward repair....50% tear of bad ligament; remaining portion was weak and soft, so she removed it. No meniscus damage, which is a common part of this problem. The bone surface looks fairly good, some changes but nothing really alarming. She'll stay overnight and in the morning we'll get a call between 6 and 8am, hopefully, as to the update on how she did overnight, if she ate any of the food we brought, etc. She has to pee and eat a little, and be secure <assisted> on her feet before we can bring her home. We picked up a sling at the vet. office where the vet rehab specialist first saw her and took the x-rays that led us to seek a surgeon.

When we dropped her off, we left her with the soft stuffy toy that she came to us with as a baby puppy, and one of my un-washed t-shirts, and a blanket from her toy basket.

So...happy news!!:D::D:
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Glad it went so well :)
 
dogmom said:
:ty: Reba, Angel and WDYS! I also really liked your HUG, WDYS!

The surgeon called us and let us know Kaylee did well - the repair was a straight forward repair....50% tear of bad ligament; remaining portion was weak and soft, so she removed it. No meniscus damage, which is a common part of this problem. The bone surface looks fairly good, some changes but nothing really alarming. She'll stay overnight and in the morning we'll get a call between 6 and 8am, hopefully, as to the update on how she did overnight, if she ate any of the food we brought, etc. She has to pee and eat a little, and be secure <assisted> on her feet before we can bring her home. We picked up a sling at the vet. office where the vet rehab specialist first saw her and took the x-rays that led us to seek a surgeon.

When we dropped her off, we left her with the soft stuffy toy that she came to us with as a baby puppy, and one of my un-washed t-shirts, and a blanket from her toy basket.

So...happy news!!:D::D:
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This is wonderful news and that was so sweet of you to give her one of
your unwashed t shirts. I bet this was a great comfort for Kaylee . :aw:
 
That's the good news I was waiting for! :)

I hope the healing goes well and fast.
 
So happy to hear it went well! Prayers for a quick recovery!
 
:ty: everyone!!

we picked her up yesterday about 2:30. She's walking and putting some weight on her hind leg. Sleepy but her demeanor is pretty usual and she as excited about food as always.
She's only supposed to go back and forth for bathroom, on leash, for 2 weeks, after which time she needs re-check x-rays and I can gradually increase small amounts of activity, and we can go back to water therapy.

:D
 
:ty:yeah... I'm so happy she is home with us, our little canine family for Thanksgiving. If we take home any turkey leftovers from what my parents made for themselves today, I'll be happy to share a bit with her <of course, with her big sis, too>.
we do have two lovely raw bones from local beef cattle that I purposely picked up for them, so they can have a Thanksgiving bone either tonight or tomorrow!
 
dogmom said:
:ty:yeah... I'm so happy she is home with us, our little canine family for Thanksgiving. If we take home any turkey leftovers from what my parents made for themselves today, I'll be happy to share a bit with her <of course, with her big sis, too>.
we do have two lovely raw bones from local beef cattle that I purposely picked up for them, so they can have a Thanksgiving bone either tonight or tomorrow!
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I bet your puppies will be very thankful for the raw bones . Do you give it to your puppies in the your house or outside? I brought Marty some beef bones and gave it to him out on the deck and he only licked it a few times
I think he wanted to eat it on my w/w rug. :roll:
 
thanks, WDYS! my girls really enjoy the bones, I feed only raw food, not kibble or canned.
They usually have the raw bones in their crates or they could have them outside. Many raw feeders will feed the raw bones on a towel or tarp in the house, and if the dog moves the bone, the bone goes away -that is - gets picked up by human and withheld for a few minutes, but not in an angry, retaliatory way, just very "ho-hum" - <negative punishment> so the dog learns to keep her treasure, she must keep it on the surface given <towel or whatever>.
did you ever see these? this is a link to set of pic.'s of my first two dogs: http://www.esmondrott.com/cagney.htm

I happen to be in there, too -it's from probably about 8 years ago now-
 
dogmom said:
thanks, WDYS! my girls really enjoy the bones, I feed only raw food, not kibble or canned.
They usually have the raw bones in their crates or they could have them outside. Many raw feeders will feed the raw bones on a towel or tarp in the house, and if the dog moves the bone, the bone goes away -that is - gets picked up by human and withheld for a few minutes, but not in an angry, retaliatory way, just very "ho-hum" - <negative punishment> so the dog learns to keep her treasure, she must keep it on the surface given <towel or whatever>.
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I live in a small condo and it would be hard to clean Marty's crate after he done with a raw beef bone , I brought some raw one from the grocery store I use to buy the bones from a butcher shop something you could get the bones for free . I brought one dog a nice raw beef bone to keep her company while I went out for a couple of hours and when I got back home I found the bone buried in the middle of my mattress , my dog made hole right the middle of my bed and buried her bone in the hole!
UGH! I loved that dog .
 
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