I hope he's doing better soon. You just have to take a wait and see
treatment with these things. Sometimes they heal up on their own with lots
of care and rest.

Buddy had some neurological problems in December and I really thought we
were going to loose him. He went from walking wobbly and dragging one leg
to dragging both his back legs in less then 24 hours. With pain meds, a
couple courses of prednisone, and rest with leash walking only he finally
got better.

I try to keep him from jumping and keep him off the stairs so we don't
aggravate it but he still occasionally has some minor dragging of the one
leg. The best thing we did was to get some weight off him it really helps
tremendously.

Good luck with him and keep us posted.

Celeste


"ceb" wrote in message
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My poor little guy seems to have a back injury. We made a midnight run to
the emergency vet because he seemed to be breathing funny -- sharp
intakes of breath, probably (according to the dr) because of pain. She
shot him up with pain meds and he is on Rimadyl for 10 days and is
supposed to rest for 3 weeks. So far he's sleeping under the bed and
walking a bit with a sad droopy tail, very un-Pom like. I'll need to
crate him when he starts feeling better to make sure he doesn't re-injure
it.

My own vet said that watching and waiting is their recommendation at this
time, and we'll do x-rays if he doesn't improve. Let's hope he does, and
this doesn't turn out to be chronic (back problems are common in poms).

The e-vet also guessed his age to be around 8, about double what other
vets and the rescue group have guessed, but more in keeping with what
I've always thought.

I feel worried and sad.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
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