Lurcher now has a wappy tail

[twiggy2]

On her long list of crashes and accidents there is another to add;

she has somehow managed to break her tail, quite possibly her love for all that is around her has caused a wagging manic moment and the tail has been wapped around a door frame, so the last 4 inches of her tail has a mind of its own and wags to its own beat.

No broken skin and seems painless, vet did comment it is along way for a thought process to go-from the tip of her tail to her brain and maybe it got lost on the way (he knows the dog too well!), so we are leaving it alone unless it causes a problem.

So the list is now longer but trying to avoid another GA if possible

 

[gryff]

My lovely lurcher broke her tail this time last year. Hers was an open fracture and a ninety degree bend! Because she was 18, a GA was completely out of the question - they strapped it up in a heavy duty bandage which was changed three times a week. That was done for about 8 weeks and it healed well. She just has a little scaly piece of skin and a slight change in direction. She had to be PTS last week at the grand age of 19 and still had a lovely waggy tail at the end!

 

[twiggy2]

Bless. What a good age.
Mine is not popular at the moment as she dug up the carpet Christmas day-must have been fireworks going off.

mine is being left as it not an open wound, the last 4-5inches just do their own thing,it is very comical.

 

[cremedemonthe]

Lurchers do seem to be accident prone, my old one before we lost her was always nicking her skin or catching her ears on things. Latest current one did this
and ended up at Fitzpatricks (supervet on tv) she doesn't do things by halves does our lurcher!

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[splashgirl45]

that looks horrible, how did they fix it? and is all ok now?

 

[cremedemonthe]

that looks horrible, how did they fix it? and is all ok now?

Yes, he put a plate rod and screws in as in photo, she runs like the wind hitting around 40 mph now with ease.
The worst part was having to carry her back to the car from the walk she did it on, through woods in the dark up hills on the North Downs, then to be told by my vet's practice go home and bring her back Monday (they knew she's broken it and this was on the Friday, 2 days without any treatment!)
I changed my vet before I strung them up and my dog was in Fitzpatricks within 24 hours and home the next day after surgery.

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[splashgirl45]

wow, that's a lot of ironwork for a lurcher,, glad she recovered ok, and the first vet was not helpful!!!!!!! I wouldn't have been happy either...

 

[twiggy2]

amazing photos, my bitch could be described as accident prone,the first one that needed a GA for repair she was about 8months;
she ran into a 28ft long white boat,the boat was the only obstacle in the 4acre field, the grass was short, all the same length and not tufts of bushes or anything-she was not even after anything just having a 'moment'. she hit the boat with such force the skin on her foreleg burst open just missing the cephalic vein.
there have been many more over the years including;
slicing the equivalent of her pastern and needing stitching up using pie crust stitches (very clever), cut all the way through her pad to expose the tendons requiring stitching, she removed the stitches by chewing a hole through the dressing despite wearing a buster collar-she removed that in the night too,her pads have been stitched twice due to exposing tendons but sliced through at least 6 times,stopper pads were always damaged during dry weather, opened her leg over the stifle 6inch long when she sat down it just opened up that was a sunday stitch up job, lacerated under the whole length of her tongue and had 2 infected holes in the back of her mouth at the start of her throat that were big enough you could have put your fingers in them-that was a sunday too, just over 2 years ago she had cruciate surgery after wrapping herself round a tree whilst after a deer-she was lame but no cranial drawer and no pain response on manipulation-the vets were shocked at the amount of damage in the joint when they opened it as the cruciate was completely blown and the joint arthritic they reckon it was likely the cruciate has suffered severe damage at least twice before-she had never been significantly lame on it though. In 2014 she was stitched up at the top of her foreleg across her chest and suffered a haematoma that went form her throat to her hinds legs across her belly up both sides of her rib cage and down one foreleg-the swelling was so severe that the skin stretched so much that the blood was oozing out of her skin pores-it looked like she had been kicked by the white fallow deer she went after as the source of the bleed was behind a foreleg where a massive vein crosses the ribs.
countless flips through the air after hitting wire fencing at speed and trees and anything really,she is approaching 8yrs old and still has accidents-good job I love this dog and work at a vets

 

[cremedemonthe]

amazing photos, my bitch could be described as accident prone,the first one that needed a GA for repair she was about 8months;
she ran into a 28ft long white boat,the boat was the only obstacle in the 4acre field, the grass was short, all the same length and not tufts of bushes or anything-she was not even after anything just having a 'moment'. she hit the boat with such force the skin on her foreleg burst open just missing the cephalic vein.
there have been many more over the years including;
slicing the equivalent of her pastern and needing stitching up using pie crust stitches (very clever), cut all the way through her pad to expose the tendons requiring stitching, she removed the stitches by chewing a hole through the dressing despite wearing a buster collar-she removed that in the night too,her pads have been stitched twice due to exposing tendons but sliced through at least 6 times,stopper pads were always damaged during dry weather, opened her leg over the stifle 6inch long when she sat down it just opened up that was a sunday stitch up job, lacerated under the whole length of her tongue and had 2 infected holes in the back of her mouth at the start of her throat that were big enough you could have put your fingers in them-that was a sunday too, just over 2 years ago she had cruciate surgery after wrapping herself round a tree whilst after a deer-she was lame but no cranial drawer and no pain response on manipulation-the vets were shocked at the amount of damage in the joint when they opened it as the cruciate was completely blown and the joint arthritic they reckon it was likely the cruciate has suffered severe damage at least twice before-she had never been significantly lame on it though. In 2014 she was stitched up at the top of her foreleg across her chest and suffered a haematoma that went form her throat to her hinds legs across her belly up both sides of her rib cage and down one foreleg-the swelling was so severe that the skin stretched so much that the blood was oozing out of her skin pores-it looked like she had been kicked by the white fallow deer she went after as the source of the bleed was behind a foreleg where a massive vein crosses the ribs.
countless flips through the air after hitting wire fencing at speed and trees and anything really,she is approaching 8yrs old and still has accidents-good job I love this dog and work at a vets

GOOD grief, mine's a novice compared to yours!
She cut her other leg about a year after her surgery, right on her stifle, that was just a clean and keep an eye on it job, her screaming in the woods when she did it was horrific and I had fears she'd broken the other leg!
One of my other dogs (staffie x lab) has had a TPLO in the last couple of years, he's fine on that leg now but tends to be a bit lame on other leg if he tries to keep up with the Lurcher but I have him on Diatome and coconut oil, which both seem to stabilise the stifle and he recovers very quickly.
Dogs , who'd have them!

 

[twiggy2]

GOOD grief, mine's a novice compared to yours!
She cut her other leg about a year after her surgery, right on her stifle, that was just a clean and keep an eye on it job, her screaming in the woods when she did it was horrific and I had fears she'd broken the other leg!
One of my other dogs (staffie x lab) has had a TPLO in the last couple of years, he's fine on that leg now but tends to be a bit lame on other leg if he tries to keep up with the Lurcher but I have him on Diatome and coconut oil, which both seem to stabilise the stifle and he recovers very quickly.
Dogs , who'd have them!

when she did her cruciate she was in shock by the time she found her way back to me, she will always be lame but she still roars about for a good few hours every day and when she slows down time will be called and it will break my heart.
she just yelps the once when she rips herself apart

 

[cremedemonthe]

when she did her cruciate she was in shock by the time she found her way back to me, she will always be lame but she still roars about for a good few hours every day and when she slows down time will be called and it will break my heart.
she just yelps the once when she rips herself apart

They are such a worry, aren't they!