Adventures: Even Dogs Have Bad Days

Poor Zed.  The last two days have been bad for him. 

Every once in awhile, he has some stiffness in his shoulder area.  Usually we just assume it's from him & Esa playing too hard.  Zed has to basically jump up to grab Esa when they are playing.

This time, it was his back leg.  It was like he didn't have control of it or something.  He wasn't in pain or yelping from pain (he has done that before).  He didn't let it stop him from walks or anything (we made sure that there was no playing between the kids).

All I could think of was the first episode he had when we took him to the emergency vet & they said that one day, he could wake up paralyzed - it was common in small dogs.  Our vet (and good friend) said she thought it was just from playing too hard and he pulled something. (FYI-emergency vets sometimes prepare you for the worst to cover themselves).

Of course, we all know as you get older, you get aches & pains that cannot be explained.  So we keep an eye on the pups when they play so Zed has an even playing field with Esa.  Esa is really good at laying down when she is playing with Zed.

Diagnosis is that Zed gets a little inflamed from playing too hard or whatever.  Baby aspirin is the key (and pain meds if it's too much).  Yesterday morning, we gave him a baby aspirin and then last night, I made him sit under the heating pad.  I guess it worked.  He seems a LOT better today.  We are going to (try to) limit the activity & hope for the best.

I'm not ready to let him go yet....<3