As most of you know, we have a 14 year old Yorkie called Clyde. He has asthma and diabetes and poor eyesight, but is a real sweetheart, easy going and cuddly.
He'd been rather quiet and sleeping a lot all week-end, which we put down to a very long and busy day at DS1's on Friday. But last night he couldn't get up or down the backdoor step, was trembling and seemed a bit disorientated. This morning we had to lift him over the step again and when he tried to stand up you could see it was difficult for him. As you can imagine my mind went into overdrive, imagining all sorts of things, mainly related to his diabetes and complications that can arise from that.
Anyway, we took him to our wonderful vet this afternoon. He gave him a good check over, blood glucose fine, no temperature, no weight loss (or gain) overall condition fantastic for his age. But checking down his spine it was apparent that it was tender around the back legs. Then I remembered he'd stumbled on an awkward door step at DS1's and landed hard on his tummy. So in addition to his other meds, he's now on NSAIDs and anti-biotics for a possible urine infection. So we're thankful that it is 'only' an injury, probably made worse by chasing DS1's cat, and I shall sleep a lot better tonight.
Pets, eh! You can't help worrying, and I do wish they could tell us when something's wrong.
He'd been rather quiet and sleeping a lot all week-end, which we put down to a very long and busy day at DS1's on Friday. But last night he couldn't get up or down the backdoor step, was trembling and seemed a bit disorientated. This morning we had to lift him over the step again and when he tried to stand up you could see it was difficult for him. As you can imagine my mind went into overdrive, imagining all sorts of things, mainly related to his diabetes and complications that can arise from that.
Anyway, we took him to our wonderful vet this afternoon. He gave him a good check over, blood glucose fine, no temperature, no weight loss (or gain) overall condition fantastic for his age. But checking down his spine it was apparent that it was tender around the back legs. Then I remembered he'd stumbled on an awkward door step at DS1's and landed hard on his tummy. So in addition to his other meds, he's now on NSAIDs and anti-biotics for a possible urine infection. So we're thankful that it is 'only' an injury, probably made worse by chasing DS1's cat, and I shall sleep a lot better tonight.
Pets, eh! You can't help worrying, and I do wish they could tell us when something's wrong.
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