Pawsdedeux

Thank you Ramonaghan. The arthritis will likely occur with Doxie at some point. Good idea about Claudia, I used to use those supplements. Dr. Scott and I can work to manage that the best we can. I admit osteo scares me a LOT; my heart Remi was just walking in our house when she took a misstep and broke her left leg below the joint. She had never even limped. It was just in May and I am still heartbroken and crying. Thanks, too, for the encouragement. I need to move forward so Doxie can share the spoiling and be happy again.

Sorry if this has been discussed, I couldn’t find a good set of keywords to search. I’m looking for information regarding early age bone fractures indicating a possible predisposition or link to osteosarcoma later in life. I understand this might fall under professional opinion and not actual study. Have you ever heard of fractures at a young age being a yellow flag for later bone issues? This is personal. I have a girl who came off the track at age 2-1/2 with a bad fracture. Extensive surgery with pins, screws, the works. It took awhile but she healed well and does not limp. I recently lost Remington, my sweet sweet cowgirl who passed May 25. Doxie now age 5 is pretty sad looking. She looked to Remi for clues. My gpa representative has a 4 yr old brindle who came off the track due to a leg fracture. This is my worry, if both would likely suffer it later in life. Again, I know many, too many of our greys develop osteo. But is an early break part of that? Doxie is my first grey with a break at a young age, although I have lost 3 to osteo over the years.

We are back home. 8 stitches with a local, and $325, and now I have to keep the paw dry and free of gnawing untilJune 5th. I guess all we will be able to do in Gatlinburg is sit on the deck and look at the mountains. 🤨🙂 But could have been worse. I’m happy she’s done with the ouchie local shot! I have abx for 7 days and tramadol for any big obvious discomfort. She’ll get the stitches out on the 5th. Thanks everyone who helped here, thank you very much.

Thanks for the info, Raineysmom. I put a soft bootie on it as soon as it happened, but it got damp from the dew in the grass when we went over this morning to the doc. I’ll try the plastic bag idea after she’s done.

Thank you for the positive response Remolacha

This is about my greyhound girl Remington, a 7 yr old blk/wht girl in otherwise great health. She cut her left foot, in between the pads and it’s deep. I didn’t want doc to put her under general anesthesia and since Remi is so good she thinks she can shoot lidocaine in it as a local anesthesia and do a quick 3 or 4 stitches. She gave me a sedative pill to give Remi and I’m supposed to take her back at 11:30 for doc to do the local and the stitching. But Dr Scott isn’t there, it’s Dr. Heidl deciding this and she isn’t as greyhound savvy as Dr Scott. So I was trying to find out if it’s a safe route to take, before I take her back over. Have you known of greys having local with lidocaine?