Busy times

March 11, 2008

IMG_0018.JPGThese are busy times. After a difficult weekend we drove off to Bernisdale yesterday to see the vet. Jingles was to stay without any food and he wasn’t too bad on it. We thought he would tear down the house, but he gave only a couple of whimpers.

Anyway, at about 9:15 we were off. Once there you wouldn’t say he had a bad leg. He almost tore of his collar to get to the girl at the reception desk wagging his tail like mad. We think he likes her better than he does us. After a short examination the vet found his left knee wobbly and explained that the ligaments of the knee were probably damaged, however an x-ray would be necessary to rule any other bad thing out. So we had to leave him there and were told to pick him up at 5pm.

We reported back at 5pm sharp. The vet told us that there were no symptoms of anything else bad but for a swollen knee with moisture in it that should not be there. So the chances are 99% that he suffers from damaged ligaments. The extent to which they are damaged is unknown as ligaments do not appear on an x-ray. To have a full understanding of the damage he will open up his knee coming Thursday. He will then apply two artificial straps on the outside of the joint. These straps will hold his joint firmly and will prevent the body from making scar tissue which could lead to problems later on in his life.

The vet said that he was pretty confident that Jingles would come to full recovery as he’s still young. So we were very happy!! Foremost because chances are that he will recover completely but also we now know the cause of his problems and a time has been set to fix it.

In the mean time we removed a tick from Jingles on Saturday. While petting him a bit on Saturday, I noticed this little bump on his skin. Closer examination showed this blood sucking, ugly tick. Claire had bought a special tick remover tool and we pulled it off after a short struggle with Jingles (always curious). Anyway, we burned the evil bloodsucker and felt really good about it.

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