Wonderdog on Nostr: Morning, Toots. I am so tired. About 12:30 last night Wonderdog tried to get up for a ...

Morning, Toots. I am so tired. About 12:30 last night Wonderdog tried to get up for a drink of water and one of her back legs kept collapsing out from under her. Now, she’s going to be 10 in July, & she’s got arthritis; but we also live in an area with brown and black snakes, & she’d been outside for her last wee about 3 hours before. She kept trying to stand & was panting hard. Then she had a small wee on the rug. (Perfectly toilet trained, never happens.) Then a small foamy vomit. EMERGENCY VET TIME! Off we go, she’s excited to get going (arrgh!); We arrive, she wees on desk 🙄 we have chat to the vet, Wonderdog happily trots out the back to see a new fan club.
The vet runs all the tests - no snake bite! HUGE relief. (Cue drying of tears, wiping noses.) So what’s going on? Full orthopaedic exam - tricky ‘cos all she wants is to flop for tummy rubs! So diagnosis: possibly jumped down wrong from bed earlier? Or woke up with a cramp. Back home 2am.