She does still limp, mostly on her front right leg. If I hold her just the right way, the leg will quiver, and if I touch it, even gently, she will yank it away. It doesn’t seem like it’s really a problem for her, though. It doesn’t stop her from doing anything. It’s probably arthritis, is what my thought is. So long as she can still do her doggy things, I won’t worry much about it.
Taking the steps away has changed her attitute pretty drastically. I’m surprised at how much more accepting of being picked up she is and how much less the other animals bother her. The most surprising is that she’s now asking to go out. Can’t tell you how happy I am about that!
Thankfully she’s pretty good about not jumping off the couch. She used to, before she realized if she just went slowly down the stairs, she wouldn’t fall down them (apparently jumping two feet off the couch is better than slipping 4 inches over the last step…?). Now she just gets up there and passes out until I get her down for a bathroom break or dinner. Yesterday I did leave the foot rest on the recliner half up and she scooted down it when I left the couch and went in to the kitchen, which I’ll take as acceptable. Better than jumping or barking for me to get her lol I think she at least realizes she’s too old to jump off things and her little body is even built for that in the first place.
Well, she only went in three. First stop was Publix for a couple $2 jugs of cat litter (yay for coupons!), and she stayed in the car while I ran in for a couple minutes. Then we went to Pet Supermarket, Petco and PetSmart. She passed out about 5 minutes into Petco lol I was ordering her crate at PetSmart and I think the guy thought I was crazy when I told him she was a lot stronger than she looked and that I needed a good sturdy crate. She’s all curled up on a towel in the cart, passed out, and he’s looking at me like “ooooookaaaaaayyyyyyy!” LOL
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