Picture of your pets - Page 18

On March 05 2011 03:59 Razvy wrote:
Crash (the big one, my roomates dog) and Penny (the puppy, my dog) the day I adopted Penny...



Penny at about a year old... Notice the strange way she's sitting...


And here's the sad pictures...








And the story behind it:

October 2008 I adopt a puppy! yay!

November 2008 puppy has a slight limp. I take her to the vet, gets Xrays, and diagnosed with a 'Luxating Patella'... It's common in small dogs, basically her kneecap was moving around to where it shouldn't be and ended up on the side of her leg. There is surgery to fix this, but the vet tells me they need to wait until she's full grown or there's a very good chance it'll just end up happening again.

June 2009, I bring her in to fix the Luxating Patella, and get the bad news. The luxating patella was just a symptom of the much larger problem, her leg has grown 'twisted'... basically just slightly turned. My vet is an old guy, and he said this is by far the worst case he has ever seen. Lucky for me, in Fort Collins there is a very respected vet school, one of the teachers there literally wrote a book about exactly what my dog has, so my vet makes an appointment for me to go see him.

July 2009, I go see the expert. He says that he can fix it, but... It's a very intense surgery, they open her up, crack the leg, twist it to where it 'should' be. BUT, even then she had very bad arthritis in that leg, having the surgery wouldn't have significantly improved the quality of life, and it would have cost me $3500. I currently work a pretty shitty job, I make enough to pay my bills on time, but I simply don't have that much cash laying around. Amputating it would 'only' cost $1000.


TL;DR Dog was broke, this was the best thing to fix it.

On March 05 2011 04:22 ShoCkeyy wrote:


Is penny still happy now though? Pretty sad to see when a dog needs to lose a leg

Found this turtle the other day. Might name it Leonardo or maybe Raphael