Miss Lilly goes to hospital....

In the short time we have had Miss Lilly she has defiantly made her presence know. She is such a good little dog following me around all day always at my feet..

I started to notice that she was limping at first I thought she had just hurt her foot and decided to watch it.but it was obvious there was more going on with her legs.

To cut a long story short our vet  xrayed  her and discovered her front legs hadn't developed properly
and she needed to have an operation to fix her legs. If we didn't she was going to get arthritis around 3 yrs old I didn't want her to be in pain and the vet assured us saying she was only in pain like if we have sore legs at the moment but it will gradually get  worse.

So we decided on the operation along with medication was the best way to go ...They could only do one leg at a time so the vet did the worse one first....

Poor little girl was really in a bad way when she came home heaps of pain killers and we had to keep her quiet which is easy as you doesn't excert her self too much any way....

She still followed me around and didn't leave me. she kinda hopped around which looked funny. Oh they had to shave all that beautiful long hair that was another thing that made us laugh.

 

Finally after a couple of weeks they took off the  bandages and put this plastic thing on her to stop her licking the wound.

Boy did she look cranky....

Her leg looked so funny  skinny no fur then just a tuff of fluff on her foot....

I do not like this on my head take it off....

My darling Kev even brought home her stitches for me to keep....

So now she is walking OK on this foot and it seems to be better.It will be xrayed in around 2 months time to see how the bones are then we have to get the other leg done and go through this all again.

Oh just to let you know it cost $1500 for this leg and like I said we have to do it again so another $1500 .Oh well she is my baby and I don't want to see her in pain so its just one of those things...