Well our little puppy Rolo has broken his leg :( The ligament and bone has come away from where it's supposed to be apparently and he'es having an op today for it. He's only 4 months now and will need to be crated for 4-6 weeks to recover!
He's going to be in overnight, obviously hoping it all goes well as he's under the general at the moment. It's a really quick operation according to the vet which is good and he said he's the leading one in the country to do it.
It happened yesterday while he and our other dog were at a kennel overnight. Dh has to stay in hospital so we arranged for the dogs to go in just overnight as I'm 30 weeks pregnant, have pneumonia and 3 little ones and would have found it too hard to cope with them both. It's a reputable place and looked lovely so we had no concerns about that. Picked them up yesterday and he couldn't put weight on his back leg. Called the vet and they said to bring him down this morning so we did. Took him to another branch to be x-rayed and we've just found out what the problem is :(
Any ideas as to what we can do/give him to keep him occupied for so long while he recovers? The vet said he has to be literally crated for this long as he could make it worse, if he was older it could have left him lame he said but he should make a full recovery.
Poor little thing. He is so good natured too, it says a lot for his temperament that he didn't try and go for us or the vet when he was being looked at and his leg moved even when it was broken and the vet has said he would have been in a lot of pain :( He's a staffie cross and black with brown brindle bits on his back, hence the name.
I posted when we got him but haven't got any photos off the camera yet!