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This morning when I woke up, Kenai didn't have her nose in my face to greet me as I rolled out of bed. This is her customary greeting every morning when she hears us rattling around, and is usually quite enjoyable unless she has recently sampled the horse manure outside that I can't keep her out of.
So I called to her and she came at an awkward walk, very slowly and bumped into the wall instead of coming through the doorway.
I slid out of bed and sat on the floor and called her to me and she came to me but she looked off. I checked her every which way I could and I didn't see anything like a wound or an obvious injury. There was some heat off of her front shoulder, and he eye was a bit swollen underneath.
She turned around to leave and yelped, and bit her right shoulder, then walked a few spaces and yelped and bit her left shoulder. That was enough for me, one phone call and we were off the vet.
He examined her and discovered that she had a lot of pressure building behind her right eye, and her shoulders were indeed sore. He surmises that sometime in the night she got kicked by one of the horses! Now she has grown up with my guys and is in with them a lot and they are used to her. She doesn't chase livestock so I don't see how she could have gotten kicked, at least not intentionally.
She is on anti-inflammatory drugs as well as diarsanyl for nasty bad diarrhea. The worst part about it is when I got her home to give her her meds, just to open her mouth makes her yelp in pain.
I did manage to tuck the pills into small balls of cheese and give them to her, but this other stuff that looks like laxatone, you can forget it, all she does is yelp when I try to open her mouth. The stuff is in a plunger and you have to press it into her mouth in measured increments.
Now she is hiding in the shower where she retreats when she is upset, disturbed or scared. Please think good thoughts for this wonderful german shepherd dog. I feel so at a loss to help her out of this~
So I called to her and she came at an awkward walk, very slowly and bumped into the wall instead of coming through the doorway.
I slid out of bed and sat on the floor and called her to me and she came to me but she looked off. I checked her every which way I could and I didn't see anything like a wound or an obvious injury. There was some heat off of her front shoulder, and he eye was a bit swollen underneath.
She turned around to leave and yelped, and bit her right shoulder, then walked a few spaces and yelped and bit her left shoulder. That was enough for me, one phone call and we were off the vet.
He examined her and discovered that she had a lot of pressure building behind her right eye, and her shoulders were indeed sore. He surmises that sometime in the night she got kicked by one of the horses! Now she has grown up with my guys and is in with them a lot and they are used to her. She doesn't chase livestock so I don't see how she could have gotten kicked, at least not intentionally.
She is on anti-inflammatory drugs as well as diarsanyl for nasty bad diarrhea. The worst part about it is when I got her home to give her her meds, just to open her mouth makes her yelp in pain.
Now she is hiding in the shower where she retreats when she is upset, disturbed or scared. Please think good thoughts for this wonderful german shepherd dog. I feel so at a loss to help her out of this~
