Jezebel hurt herself. Again. Somehow.

On Sunday night she was zooming around the living room. Rich said she ran into a chair. I don’t see how that would cause her to hurt her left hind leg but it’s the only “trauma” we can think of.

I called the vet yesterday when she wouldn’t put any weight on it. She was just letting it dangle, which is never good, especially for her because she’s stoic and will never show signs of pain. We tested her for Lyme first, since I pulled a tick off of her at the end of last week but that was negative.

We took two x-rays, which showed nothing out of the ordinary. My poor puppy’s legs look like directions for putting something together with all the screws and plates and stuff in her bones. The hardware is holding up and her hips look really good. When you’ve seen as many effed up sets of hips as I have you tend to appreciate what a healthy set looks like. She’s getting some arthritis in both knees, the left side more than the right, but not enough to be debilitating yet. I’m gonna have to start her back on glucosamine. I stopped giving it to her because she was spitting it out…but I’ll have to get some that tastes good. Or else get the granular kind and mix it with something in her food.

In anticipation of spending extra money on the mortgage I finally brought myself to get cheaper dog food. They’ve been eating Natural Balance, which is $45/bag, three times a month. I switched them to Pro Plan, which is crap in my opinion but I decided that I can’t be more picky about what I feed my dogs than I am about what I eat myself and feed my kids. The good food wasn’t keeping Chuck from getting ear infections and Jezzy really seems to like the taste of the Pro Plan (thanks to the artificial flavor they spray all over it). She was looking pretty thin, she wasn’t scrawny by any means but you could see her ribs when she turned a certain way and you could feel (but not see) her backbone when you petter her. She’s gained five pounds in the last two weeks, which puts her at a healthy 57 instead of a “willowy” 52.

I’m just not meant to have any money. Every cent I intended to save for house stuff has gone to the vet in the past two months. But, hopefully this will be the end of the vet visits for a good long time. If they’re going to need vet care it’s definately better to do it now than after we move and I have to adhere to the budget.

I gave Jezzy some deramaxx last night. This morning her limp was noticibly better. Hopefully at the end of the week when the medicine runs out she’ll be good as new.

She is a much better patient than someone else I know.