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Originally Posted by jj71787  My yorkie was playing with his toys and he fell when i saw it it looked as if he fell on his back but he started crying and holding his leg up and was shaking.
He rested a bit and started playing like normal.
Today he was playing with my other dog and he started crying and holding his back leg up again. I bought him to my room and he was walking fine. He then slept it off and he when he woke he ran into the living room and cried again.
Could it just be a sprained ankle that maybe running a certain way brings on the pain? |
Piper did that also, playing, letting out a yelp then carry her hind leg for a short while. I checked eveything over, bending the knee and ankle, checking her foot and pads and she didn't act like she was in pain. I thought she must have strained a muscle or something. After a week of this off and on yelping and carrying the leg I brought her to the vets. After x-rays, I learned the problem was her hip. Piper had Legg Perthes Disease and needed surgery immediately. When I saw how miss-shapened the top of the femur was and how there were bone fragments floating in the hip socket (which caused the pain) I wondered how it could have gotten this far without me realizing it. If your baby continues to yelp in pain, bring him to the vets and find out what's going on. I feel guilty that I let my little girl go a whole week before I brought her to the vets. She had been spayed 3 weeks earlier and she was fine.