[Monroe-Rylee]

My 1 year old, 5.6 pound Yorkie slipped off the couch last night and immediately began holding up her foot. The vet found that she had broken the 4 toes on her right foot. He questioned how it happened and indicated he had never seen broken toes from a fall from a couch... stating he would expect this injury if the foot had been run over or something had been intentionally done to her (leaving me with the awful feeling that he believes this to be true). He indicated that if she had broken the toes from a fall from the couch that she would have to have a bigger issue with her bone density and if that were the case we'd expect to see breaks continue throughout her life and would need to consider her quality of life. I asked for a referral to a specialist at this point.
He ran blood-work to check calcium and phosphorus levels. When these came back normal I emailed to find out if she may have landed on top of her foot... he responded "normal, healthy bones do not break just by falling"... I was able to get an appointment with the specialist tomorrow but I am left with this awful feeling of basically being accused of mistreating my dog, who is like my child. And terrified that something is seriously wrong with her since the break was caused by falling from a normal height couch onto carpet (with very little padding unfortunately). Monroe & Rylee are my first Yorkies and the smallest dogs I have had (Rylee is 5.6 pounds and Monroe is 4.5 pounds). So, I am reaching out to more experienced Yorkie owners to see if you think it's impossible for a healthy dog to sustain this type of injury from a fall from a couch... I'll get more info tomorrow during the appointment with the specialist but I was hoping for any thoughts and/or feedback you may have about this as I'm going crazy with worry about something being seriously wrong with my little girl. Thank you so much for any feedback you may have to offer!