When we walked into the house, we went straight to the bedroom to get Yadi out of her crate and take her outside to potty.
When we walked in the room, Yadi wasn't in her crate. I wasn't sure where she was because when we come home, she's OVERLY excited to see us. Like, spastic. My heart started pounding.
I think saw how destroyed the blinds were. Then I noticed she was behind them. I lifted the blinds and she was lying on the window sill. She was barely moving. She was almost lifeless. And lying in a puddle of her own urine.
This is what scared me. I was worried she was in some shock or something.
We were calling her name and moved her and we noticed how cut up and swollen her left hind leg was.
I immediately said we needed to get her to the vet. Not because of her leg, but because of how she was acting and that she was just lying in her own urine.
So we hopped in the car and headed to the vet.
We didn't see our normal vet but I liked the woman we saw. She saw no signs of bleeding in the eyes and no signs of trauma. Thank goodness. We think her demeanor was from being so scared and in so much pain.
Her snout, legs, and belly were cut but her left hind leg was the worst of all. The vet didn't think there was anything wrong anywhere else though and the cuts weren't deep enough to require stitches.
They took some x-rays and results were good. There is nothing wrong with her bones. She can't tell if there is any damage to tendons. Only time will tell. If she isn't using her leg much by Tuesday, we'll need to bring her back in to see a surgeon (We can NOT afford a surgery.)
She gave her a shot of pain meds and a narcotic. She also gave us some prescription pain meds/anti-inflammatory to give her twice a day for the next 5 days.
She needs to rest for the next 3 days with limited leash walking and she suggested we use something as a sling-like contraption to help her. We have to carry her up and down the stairs to go potty...which isn't the easiest task since she's now up to 45 pounds!!!!!
We brought her home and gave her a bath since she smelled horribly of urine. Then she passed right out for quite a few hours.
After she fell asleep, I examined the crate to see how she managed to get out. The crate is in the corner of the room and the door opens towards the window, right next to it.
Somehow she managed to get the top latch open, but not the bottom. It didn't open all that much but she somehow managed to get her large body out of it.
Yadi LOVES her crate. That's not the issue at all. Her issue is that she's clingy. When we get up and walk into another room, she has to follow. If we walk into the bedroom, she comes running behind us and runs immediately to her crate and lays down. She can't STAND to not be around us.
Yadi had been okay with being left in her crate. But the past week or so, when we'd come home, she'd be howling and crying. For some reason, she's come to not be okay in her crate when we leave. I don't understand! She needs to get used to it. She is going to have to be in it for a few hours. We just don't want her breaking out and hurting herself again. So we're going to either zip-tie her in or buy tiny locks.
This girl is a handful!!!
Yadi is resting now. And around 9pm tonight she was up and was walking around. It's still very swollen but she's putting some weight on it which is a good sign. But it's also making it hard to keep her resting and off of it. I guess we'll see how the rest of the weekend goes.
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