Sending hugs and flobbery licks your way for some good news.
My Kiara did hers 4 months ago
I was so upset but the reality wasn't as bad as what I read on google :-)
She had the op in March where they put wire through her knee
didn't look to bad but the thought made me feel sick - I'll put a piccie up at the end so anyone a bit squeamish doesn't have to look.
As she was so fit the vet said 3 days of complete crate rest, only allowed outside for toilet breaks on lead as she was doped up on Tramadol and Metecam this wasn't an issue for us, then just toilet break walks in the garden on lead for a week, allowed out of crate but no jumping etc, after a week she was allowed out 5-10 mins on lead, this is when the issues started as she was feeling ok in herself but wasn't allowed out for proper walkies I found leaving her with a raw bone (her favourite) to chew on kept her quiet. The vet was so happy with her progress he said we could start building her up but to keep her on lead to stop her running. Then we had the incident with Bailey and it knocked her right back so we started from scratch again.
Today I took her for her first off lead walk where she could have her ball, she loves to chase her ball
We were out for an hour and I threw the ball maybe 5 times and she's been fine
No limping etc so looks like she's over it.
Not sure about the arthritis thing, the vets said he could feel some in her knee but it should calm down enough not to cause any injury when the knee has healed obviously he couldn't comment on her future heath but he didn't seem unduly worried
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And a month later