Thanks, so much great advice and info here.
Tomorrow, I will be calling a vet who does only surgery. We know someone who works for a dog rescue and got the name from him.
The vet is over an hour away, but we have no choices closer.
I do have to explain about our dear vet: She says when she keeps the dogs for rehab the long term prognosis is almost always better. We retired a couple of years ago and ended up in a rural area of NC. Beautiful area, nice people, but there are a lot of people who are irresponsible pet owners around here.
I would not be surprised if many of the pet owners she deals with don't follow the instructions. So I think she 's trying to help the dogs. She was the third vet we tried after we moved here.
Still, we are very likely to be going to the surgeon who is so far. I don't have to tell anyone on this forum how deeply we love our little guy.
Adding to the stress of all of this is that we are in the process of moving from here! We have our place back in MI already and have been counting the weeks until we could return. Now we will wait until Dinky has the surgery and a few weeks recovery time.
thanks for listening to all of this! |