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First – I’m soooo sorry to hear about your girl.
I’m afraid I have to agree it sounds like rupture of the disk – or something on those lines. And surprisingly they either don’t have pain when it first happens or the pain doesn’t show up for a while.
About a year and a half ago – my Flash had spinal surgery for two ruptured disk’s and a bone spur. In retrospect – I know when she hurt her back – because when I walked in my room and seen her on the floor where she was – it was out of the norm for her to be there especially at that time day. I even had her get up and walk – I moved all her legs – everything appeared to be normal – with no sign of pain and no limps – I went so far and to come down and told my husband to keep an eye on Flash and what happened – Fast forward more than a year that everything was normal – except from that night on she wouldn’t come up in my bed. Other than that everything was ok.
Then one weekend Russ was coming back from our other house that’s about 7 hours away – he wasn’t 20 minutes into the ride when he called to say in a stressed voice – “something is wrong with Flash” she looks like she’s in pain” – the calls we’re coming about every half hour – each one was sounding worse than the first – I rushed her to the emergency vet – and it took them all of two minutes to tell me it was her back.
We tried for a week to keep her on “strong” meds that kept her from moving around to see if it would fix its self – kinda like we’re doing with her neck – but we didn’t have the same luck with her back. The instructions we’re that if her back end went down and she couldn’t lift it – we were to run, not walk to the Specialty Center for a MRI – then possible surgery. As I mentioned, she had the surgery.
I think it’s a good idea to keep her crated for the night but I would also add – even if you have a fenced yard – I would put her on a leash and use a towel under her belly as a sling so you can help a little – “A thinner bath towel works well. When you go to the vet they’ll give you a nice sling.
I wish you the best of luck with finding out what is wrong – and saying lots of prayers for you both.
Jen
I’m afraid I have to agree it sounds like rupture of the disk – or something on those lines. And surprisingly they either don’t have pain when it first happens or the pain doesn’t show up for a while.
About a year and a half ago – my Flash had spinal surgery for two ruptured disk’s and a bone spur. In retrospect – I know when she hurt her back – because when I walked in my room and seen her on the floor where she was – it was out of the norm for her to be there especially at that time day. I even had her get up and walk – I moved all her legs – everything appeared to be normal – with no sign of pain and no limps – I went so far and to come down and told my husband to keep an eye on Flash and what happened – Fast forward more than a year that everything was normal – except from that night on she wouldn’t come up in my bed. Other than that everything was ok.
Then one weekend Russ was coming back from our other house that’s about 7 hours away – he wasn’t 20 minutes into the ride when he called to say in a stressed voice – “something is wrong with Flash” she looks like she’s in pain” – the calls we’re coming about every half hour – each one was sounding worse than the first – I rushed her to the emergency vet – and it took them all of two minutes to tell me it was her back.
We tried for a week to keep her on “strong” meds that kept her from moving around to see if it would fix its self – kinda like we’re doing with her neck – but we didn’t have the same luck with her back. The instructions we’re that if her back end went down and she couldn’t lift it – we were to run, not walk to the Specialty Center for a MRI – then possible surgery. As I mentioned, she had the surgery.
I think it’s a good idea to keep her crated for the night but I would also add – even if you have a fenced yard – I would put her on a leash and use a towel under her belly as a sling so you can help a little – “A thinner bath towel works well. When you go to the vet they’ll give you a nice sling.
I wish you the best of luck with finding out what is wrong – and saying lots of prayers for you both.
Jen
