Sorry, I didn’t have more time last night and I’m having computer issues and separate internet issues. My Angel did this mild lameness thing that the vet couldn’t pinpoint and we dealt with it for a year. She would be slow to get up, sometimes, hop for a single step, rarely, turn around suddenly, rarely. Just enough that I knew something was going on, but not what or exactly where. On day, she went to hop up in a chair that she always napped in and screamed. She ran off and I followed her to see if I could tell what happened/if she had hurt herself. Nothing. But she didn’t try to hop up in that chair or any other for 2 days. She would stand and stare at you until you picked her up. No limping, no lameness, no whining, nothing else, except she stared at us. On the second day after the scream, she was going out to go potty and as she stepped out the door, she picked up her right rear leg and carried it for about 5 steps. That’s all, then she started walking normally again. It was Sunday, so I just put her in her crate and only let her out by herself and called the vet in the morning to tell them what I was seeing. They looked for a sticker in her foot(DUH! I would have found that), a sore toe nail bed, a sore toe, and so on all the way up her leg and she just smiled at them. When they got to her knee though, they barely touched it and she screamed like they were cutting her head off. She had a pretty severe ACL tear and was just so stoic that she wasn’t saying anything. She probably had a mild tear before, but the jump tore it worse. She ended up having to have surgery and every once in a great while, she has a single step hitch in her get along, but otherwise she is doing great. She had the surgery when she was 7 and she is 12 1/2 now.
