Greyhounds are prone to bone cancer and I was afraid this limp was really bad news. We had seen a PBS show on "Why We Love Cats and Dogs" and one part was about a couple whose german shepherd had a leg removed due to cancer. So cancer was on my mind.
Rio and I went to the vet, who is about a 45 minute drive northwest of here in Beaver, PA. Dr. Doug examined Rio's left front leg to see if he could determine what was hurting Rio. Rio reacted when Dr. Doug pressed his left shoulder. So they took him in to get an x-ray.
Dr. Doug came in and said the good news was that the x-ray didn't show anything. The bad news was that the x-ray didn't show anything. So, while Rio doesn't have cancer, or a torn ligament, or broken bone, we still don't know why he is in pain.
Dr. Doug is a holistic vet. He recommended we start with a homeopathic remedy for three days and, if that didn't work, we would go to traditional pain meds for him.
We gave Rio his first dose of 6 tiny grains that look like sand on Wednesday night. Amazingly by Friday morning he was so full of energy he was dragging me around the park on our morning walk. I worked up a huge sweat in 17F weather. It made a believer out of me.
So far Rio's back to his perky self with the tiniest of limps.
A side story is just as we were finishing up the vet appointment I heard a commotion in the hallway. It turns out that just outside of the clinic a woman traveling 65 MPH in a 35 MPH zone clipped the back end of a car, cut a telephone pole in half, went through a chain link fence, down a small hill and flipped on the roof of the car. Amazingly the woman and her passenger walked out of the accident due to the fact they were wearing seat belts.
Good news all around.
Just after the accident. You can see the car just above the picture of the dog.
Moving the telephone pole.
The car.
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Glad hes doing ok keep us posted
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