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Needing some good thoughts. :c
12 years ago
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Please send my shiba some good thoughts and prayers if you can. I just got the rough news that he blew out his ACL and will never be able to run again. This is gonna be pretty rough on him since that was his favorite thing in the world and we were training towards doing biking. I'm just really upset for my old man and I'm hoping he can adjust to this. He's definitely getting tons of snuggles when I get home next weekend.
On a semi-related note, I have to start saving for a potential surgery for him to help take away the pain if possible. He's only on pain meds right now to help with it until we figure out if surgery will help at all. I don't want to take donations or anything like that, but if you have any ideas for what you would like to see me offer art commission wise, please let me know. Once things slow down a bit here I'll be trying to open up for a few commission slots to help pay for replacement surgery.
I just need some good thoughts going his way though. He's not taking it too well since he's usually an active dog. :c Hopefully he starts feeling better once his pain meds start to kick in but I just feel horrible over the whole ordeal.
Sorry for venting here but I'm just kinda a mess right now and needed to get it out somewhere.
On a semi-related note, I have to start saving for a potential surgery for him to help take away the pain if possible. He's only on pain meds right now to help with it until we figure out if surgery will help at all. I don't want to take donations or anything like that, but if you have any ideas for what you would like to see me offer art commission wise, please let me know. Once things slow down a bit here I'll be trying to open up for a few commission slots to help pay for replacement surgery.
I just need some good thoughts going his way though. He's not taking it too well since he's usually an active dog. :c Hopefully he starts feeling better once his pain meds start to kick in but I just feel horrible over the whole ordeal.
Sorry for venting here but I'm just kinda a mess right now and needed to get it out somewhere.
When he gets back to feeling better, be on the lookout for alternative energy-wasters for him! See if he can go swimming or find some puzzles he can do to keep his mind active. Maybe try getting him into nose trials or obedience or something similar? My own dog has severe arthritis in her knee from a birth defect, so I totally understand the need to keep them active without putting too much strain on them.
Thank you so much for the suggestions! I definitely need alternative ways to keep him busy. I was working with him on becoming a recreational sled dog but that's done now so he definitely needs new ways to keep busy. He's already miserable sitting still like this. We do work on obedience a bit but now I'll definitely give him more time with that and will look into nose work. Sadly he's terrified of water so I think swimming may be a no go but we'll see, maybe with nothing else to do he'd be more motivated to work with me on overcoming that. Thanks so much though, I feel a bit better now that I have some ideas rolling to keep him entertained once he's feeling better. ;u; I just feel horrible for him since he's always been a runner but I'm glad to know there are things out there we can work towards still to keep him happy.