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I always said that God was good to spare 2 elderly folks like us and to choose Buddy as the sick little man as he is taking all the poking and prodding like a good little soldier. You may remember their origin and the shape Buddy was in when we took them out of that nasty puppy mill.
On their first visit to the vet the next day, Cleo was diagnosed with a Level 4 heart murmur and a fracture leg, and of course they both have luxated patellas. X-rays uncovered a fracture and we had to wait until after she was spayed and at 9 months she had a femoral head and neck ostectomy on her left back leg. The operation was a success and after almost a year of regular caging and directed physiotherapy, her leg being a little shorter, she always walked with a little limp and she has been on 500 mg of glucosomine and choindritin since. She also had minor surgery for the removal of a small piece of glass that had lodged deep into her pad.
Sunday, we noticed that she was limping a little (right front leg) and since it was bitterly cold, we though it was a touch of arthritis. We thoroughly examined her paws and found nothing. Monday the limping was a little worst and I started giving her Metacam (5mg). Tuesday was really bad and we picked her up to take her outside, pick her up to and down from the couch and managed to get 10mg of Metacam in. We eliminated the morning walk and Ron came back from the afternoon walk with Cleo in his arms since she was struggling too much.
Inasmuch as Buddy is my cool little dude, Cleo is one spunky little girl but she is a holly terror when she is sick or in pain. Buddy has always been her little protector and he freaks out when we pick her up and take her somewhere as he thinks we are taking his sis away from him. He goes close to her with a <how you doing sis< and she snarls.
Today, she seems better… walks a little better and no longer snarls at Buddy. Of course, our little Madonna gives us the <big brown eyes poor little me< looks but the problem is that she hates the metacam. I tried putting some on a kibble, she spat it out. I tried on some cheese, she ate some of it, spat out the rest. One that worked was metacam on her green pepper but only 1 piece. Those twice daily walks are the highlight of their day and we tried a small walk this morning. She was all excited when we put their coats on but, it is back to being bitterly cold and she really wasn’t into it so they were back within 5 minutes.
We think it is either a bad jump off the couch or because she realizes that Buddy is feeling so much better, she has been ambushing him a lot more and running and playing with him.
Is metacam as effective if given in small dosages like we are managing to do with our princess? As opposed to the full 10mg at once. Also I understand that Omega 3 is an anti-inflammatory so I added 1000mg of Omega 3 to her food this morning.
Any suggestion as to what else I should/could be doing? Why is it that I can’t make my posts shorter? Geeez
Louise
On their first visit to the vet the next day, Cleo was diagnosed with a Level 4 heart murmur and a fracture leg, and of course they both have luxated patellas. X-rays uncovered a fracture and we had to wait until after she was spayed and at 9 months she had a femoral head and neck ostectomy on her left back leg. The operation was a success and after almost a year of regular caging and directed physiotherapy, her leg being a little shorter, she always walked with a little limp and she has been on 500 mg of glucosomine and choindritin since. She also had minor surgery for the removal of a small piece of glass that had lodged deep into her pad.
Sunday, we noticed that she was limping a little (right front leg) and since it was bitterly cold, we though it was a touch of arthritis. We thoroughly examined her paws and found nothing. Monday the limping was a little worst and I started giving her Metacam (5mg). Tuesday was really bad and we picked her up to take her outside, pick her up to and down from the couch and managed to get 10mg of Metacam in. We eliminated the morning walk and Ron came back from the afternoon walk with Cleo in his arms since she was struggling too much.
Inasmuch as Buddy is my cool little dude, Cleo is one spunky little girl but she is a holly terror when she is sick or in pain. Buddy has always been her little protector and he freaks out when we pick her up and take her somewhere as he thinks we are taking his sis away from him. He goes close to her with a <how you doing sis< and she snarls.
Today, she seems better… walks a little better and no longer snarls at Buddy. Of course, our little Madonna gives us the <big brown eyes poor little me< looks but the problem is that she hates the metacam. I tried putting some on a kibble, she spat it out. I tried on some cheese, she ate some of it, spat out the rest. One that worked was metacam on her green pepper but only 1 piece. Those twice daily walks are the highlight of their day and we tried a small walk this morning. She was all excited when we put their coats on but, it is back to being bitterly cold and she really wasn’t into it so they were back within 5 minutes.
We think it is either a bad jump off the couch or because she realizes that Buddy is feeling so much better, she has been ambushing him a lot more and running and playing with him.
Is metacam as effective if given in small dosages like we are managing to do with our princess? As opposed to the full 10mg at once. Also I understand that Omega 3 is an anti-inflammatory so I added 1000mg of Omega 3 to her food this morning.
Any suggestion as to what else I should/could be doing? Why is it that I can’t make my posts shorter? Geeez
Louise
Maybe the tablets are more effective because she is sleeping soundly now and has stop going after her paw.
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