Poor Molly!

We've had our dog, Molly, for almost 7 years. She's a Min Pin and extremely good with our boys even though they are not so good to her all the time. Friday evening, Chris and I were visiting with Erica when all the sudden we heard a horrendous yelping from the back yard where Colby and Molly were playing. Chris rushed to see what it was and came running frantically back in the house holding Molly. Her paw on her right front leg was facing the wrong way! It turned my stomach just to look at it. He was barking orders to me about getting in the car and this that and the other. I calmly had to explain to him we couldn't just jump in the car and take off with her. I know she needed immediate attention but Cameron was upstairs asleep and we had no idea where the nearest pet hospital was. He finally calmed down enough to look up some addresses and Erica volunteered to watch the boys for us. Once we decided where to take her we headed to the pet hospital. I called them on the way to make sure this was something they could handle and they said it was. Once we got there the vet came in and looked at it and said yep, it's broken. We need to get her some pain medication and take some x rays to see how bad it is. Within five minutes she had her pain shot and they came and took her for x rays. They called us back to look at them. She broke one bone completely in half and a piece of another bone was completely broken away from the rest of the bone. On top of that, she tore all the ligaments in her leg...ouch! The vet that was working Friday doesn't specialize in orthopedics so he called the vet that does and they decided that she was okay to be splinted until Monday when he could look at her x rays to see exactly what needed to be done to fix it. At first they mentioned her having surgery as the best way to fix it but after looking at the x ray they don't know if that will work with that piece of bone broken completely away. If they can't fix it surgically they will put a cast on it for 6-8 weeks to see if it will heal on it's own. If that doesn't work they will have to fuse the bones, something they really don't like to do. If they have to do surgery on her the vet said it was going to be a rather costly surgery due to the extent of her injuries, somewhere in the ball park of 1800.00! OUCH!!!

So right now we sit and wait until tomorrow to find out what the verdict is going to be. We are hoping that they can just cast it and that it will heal on it's own. Casting has got to be a lot cheaper than surgery! In the meantime, you would never know she has a broken leg. She's up walking around, going through the doggie door, and up and down stairs. She even still wants to go for walks with me. Last night I felt so bad for her that I carried her with me on my walk. Even the vet commented on how laid back and easy going she is. He said most Min Pin's will not let you anywhere around them when they are injured and she's just been a trooper. Here's a pic of our poor little Molly!