DOGS RULE !!! To share all the good times for being dog lovers.

Well its been two days since we were told that Mya is healthy and strong enough for surgery , and in two days she is booked for amputation of her right front leg. For the last few weeks she has had a hard time with the pain, untill last week. Thurs. morning we went in for our consultation she had had a quiet night and hasen’t cried out since. except to wake us up in the morning. yesterday she came down the stars to the basement ” our office” , later that night she hopped up on the bed and down again. Her new found viger had me second guessing our decision. As I’ve watched her these last few days I can see that she doesn’t use the right leg when she is getting a little active. When she sits she will curl the paw under and rest on the back of her paw, seemingly to relieve tention on the tendons near the sholder.
Shes a fighter… its like she is in training. I keep wanting to make her lay down and rest, which she does a lot, but when she has had enough sit’n around . she will just get up and hop down the stairs, and go see whats going on outside.
Thats the other thing I’ve noticed, she preferrs to take the stairs… just over 8 years ago we had a single male Malamute “Cy”, he was 13 years old and had a condition that affected his spine and he slowly lost the use of his back legs. I had built a set of ramps leading from the back porch to the deck and from the deck to the ground so Cy could make it up to the back door. I was never able to bring my self to take them down and we still use them today. I have noticed that Mya would rather take the stairs ” flat footed” instead of the ramp. Her paws tend to slide slightly as she hops down the ramp, up is no problem though.
We are thinking of resurfacing with something that has a bit more traction, or redesign to a long tread short rise type of stairs.
so far its another good day .
Time to feed the kids…