not dread related but I need advice now

you sound like your not so sure

 

I'm scared to post else where I don't want to be called horrible names or be told told that I'm a bad person

 

I'm always unsure of everything I didn't see with my own two eyes just a precaution I take with every situation in life

 

i dont think youll be called horrible - youre obv worrying enough to ask us lot for advice =]

 

Can you feel her leg to see if it's broken? All a vet will do is (have the technician) set the leg and splint it. If it's broken, you may be able to slide it into place and splint it with some smooth plastic or wood, and bandage around it to keep it in place. Put some cotton between the splint and her leg so she doesn't get sores.

If you do set her leg though, some sort of sedative might be in order. Do you have valium or know anyone that does? If you tell me her weight, I can tell you how much to give her.

Splinting a broken leg yourself won't be as perfect as with a vet's office with an x-ray machine. But it's better than leaving it to twist around on its own. Plenty of animals in the wild break limbs and live normal lives, but if you assist her in getting the bone back into position, there's a better chance of it healing properly. But it WILL hurt her, if it is broken.

It could also just be a pulled muscle.

This site
http://www.seefido.com/html/dog_s_skeleton.htm
shows you where all the leg bones are located in a dog.

 

well you guys a supa nice

I can't get her to lay down right now she is like super hyper for some reason she was outside a moment ago and appeared to be using her injured leg slightly to run she was running faster than my three year old beagle

 

from what I can feel its not broken can I email you?

 

yes

 

to me it sounds like she's just twisted it, or its some sort of impact injury - you said she jumped/fell off the sofa - but im no vet =]

 

oh how i wish gucci could tell me what was wrong with her

 

Young things are tough things So don't worry too much. If it was truly awful, she wouldn't be running round and stuff The vet system round your way sounds a bit weird...

 

I know they just don't want to be screwed out of money

 

In the UK you don't pay till after the treatment, I think xD

I'd agree with annie Awesome advice

I hope she gets better <3

 

this is true dragon. also, the rspca & pdsa do free, or pay towards, animal care

 

Amy, a lot of vets are like that, especially around here. They don't have to pay malpractice insurance like other doctors, and end up fairly wealthy. The one I work for seems to be a businessman first and a veterinarian second. We once had a woman, her teenage daughter, and their dying cat in the lobby. The woman and her daughter were crying. They didn't have a $400 deposit to hospitalize their cat, so the doc wouldn't treat it. They asked if he'd put her to sleep to end her suffering (which he charges about $300 for) and he wouldn't because they couldn't pay.

Pentobarbitol (euth juice) is a controlled substance, so I couldn't slip her any of that. The cat was clearly dying and in pain, so I met her in the parking lot with a syringe of insulin and did the job for her. There are a lot of parts of my job I'd really like to ignore. I have tons of stories similar to that one, but I'm going to stop for everyone's benefit.

 

Annie its so good that you are prepared to do that for people though Can you not find a nicer place to work? For the rspca or something? Well you know what I mean xD Less money driven

 

Why's everything always all wrong.... *sigh* backwards world.

 

I don't like money

 

i like money, i just dont like the way everything revolves around it

 

I worked for the county shelter for a while. It was money driven in a different sense. It was way overcrowded and understaffed. They just didn't have the funding. I ended up putting tons of healthy animals to sleep every day. I quit because I thought I'd lose my mind.

There's a lot of fucked up shit that happens at my workplace, but in comparison to other animal related jobs I've had, it's pretty good.