CavyMom
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I feel like such a bad mom right now, yesterday at the dog park someone mentioned to me that Starlight was really moving funny in the rear and seemed to be favoring one leg, I watched her for a minute and sure enough, her right rear leg was giving her trouble. Then I realized she's been doing this for a while now and until someone brought my attention to it I didn't even pay attention to the problem I'm suspecting either a patella luxation or a bad hip, I can't quite tell. She'll be going to the vet on Thursday (my vet was swamped and that's the soonest I could get her in ) and I'll have him do x-rays and a patella exam ansd see if we can figure out what's going on. My heart is just breaking right now as now I can see this is NOT a new symptom, and I don't even know how long she's been hurting that I haven't noticed and done something about it!!! Sadly, if it's something expensive to repair like a patella or, even though uncommon in small breeds, hip dysplasia, I may be forced to return her to the breeder I recently lost my job due to my own health taking a turn for the worse lately, I still am staying with friends and have no where to call home really, I've been so lucky to be able to hold on as long as I have, but financially, now that I'm no longer working and fighting the system to get on disability, I just don't know how I'd pay for this on my own!!!! I'm praying what ever is going on can be managed somehow without expensive surgery at least until I can find a way to get money coming in, because right now I just don't know how I could do it Please keep Star in your thoughts and prayers, after all I've been through and given up to keep my dogs the last couple months, I hate to think of being forced to loose her now!!!!!
Just as an afterthought - is it normal for a cav to always put it's legs behind it when it lays down on it's belly? I've never known Star to lie any other way, none of my other dogs do that.....
Just as an afterthought - is it normal for a cav to always put it's legs behind it when it lays down on it's belly? I've never known Star to lie any other way, none of my other dogs do that.....