State of the Mollydog (Again!)

[bunn]

 Went in to see Mollydog's surgeon, Rude Craig.

Comments

[wellinghall]

Oh noes ...

*pats Mollydog*

[bunn]

Am crossing fingers that it may settle down as it gets warmer, as she does tend to be less active when it's hot.

[lil_shepherd]

Oh dear! That's a horrible decision you're going to have to make.

[bunn]

Greyhounds: definitely designed for speed not reliability!

[the_marquis]

Oh that sounds like a big mixed bag of ... hope all goes well and that Molly's leg settles down. Is it possible that the bones etc being thin, and then jiggling about a lot, that the hardware can't really ever fit right?

[bunn]

That's the worry :-( It *may* settle down, but as you say, it's awful tight for space in there, so any incompatibility with the metal bits at all is bad.

I'm frankly amazed that Craig managed to put the leg back together so well the first time, it must have been like some sort of nightmare 3d jigsaw made of ultra-thin tissue paper!

Of course, she considers legs to be for charging about at top speed on, and she'll do that even if it hurts, just because that's what she does. Not all greyhounds are born to run, I'm told many of them aren't that fussed (Az isn't, actually), but Molls is a born runner. I had her on lead for a few days since her last vet appt, and this morning I let her off because I reckoned that was probably still safer than the kind of loony leaping and bowing she was doing in the house!

[inzilbeth_liz]

I can just imagine how difficult all this is. I hope you can figure something out.

[clarienne]

Ouch! Poor Mollydog :-(