Cosita is doing so much better! It started out with little things, like hopping across the yard to pee over the top of Liberty's pee spot, making her way to the sliding glass door to look outside, and progressed to actually asking to go outside and trying to use the dog door herself! She's no longer on the pain meds. She doesn't act like she needs them.
I'm still carrying her down the stairs, and I blocked all of the furniture so she can't jump on and off of them, but she pretty much has the run of the house now. I'm still crating her most of the time when I leave, but twice now I've left her out. The only thing that scares me about that is that when I come home, she stands up on her hind legs to greet me. I'm looking at it as a good thing that she's trying this, but I hope it's not too much too soon.
Most of the time when she gets going fast, she picks up her bad leg, but every once in a while she puts it down and runs with her two back legs hitting the ground at the same time, like a bunny hop. When she slows down, she uses it just for stability I think. . . toe touches. I'm going to get a video of it.
She seems pretty much like her normal self now, just on three legs, sometimes four. One good thing is that she's lost a little weight. I'm going to try and keep it off of her. It's got to help prevent her other knee from injury.
All in all I'm very pleased with her progress. She's still definitely not back to complete normalcy, but her attitude is back, and the physical is coming along nicely.
She gets her stitches out on Friday, and then I can give her a bath. Yay!
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