I don't know if I am grasping at straws or what…

Champ can't stand. This started Saturday… of course a holiday weekend and no vets available… He sits with his remaining rear leg straight out in front of him and scooches himself around. When I carry him outside to potty I have to support the leg and sometimes his toes roll underneath like he doesn't have any control of his leg/foot.

Any ideas? Maybe it's not the cancer wrecking his body this time…. maybe it's a hip issue, dislocation… something that can be fixed…

Am I being unrealistic and just grasping at anything so I don't have to face what I might have to do?

Thanks,

Joy

Joy, I am sorry Champ is having a bad weekend. 

Daisy never regained the ability to use her back leg to walk without assistance but she doesnt have cancer. When I use her harness to help her walk, her back leg will make the walking motion but she does "knuckle over" quite a bit. When she is in her chair and stops more often then not she is knuckled over.  She also sits with the rear leg straight out.  

Let us know what the vet says. Sending you pawsitive Dalmatian vibes!

She was hit by a pickup. Not to gross anyone out but the vet said it was "classic degloving" of the skin on the leg (among other injuries). The vet tried to sew the skin back on but it turned gangrene and the fasted way to recovery was amputation.

For a while she would get up and hop short distances on her own, then she would go a few weeks where she couldn't then she would try again..off and on these past 11 months now. I really hoped she would be able to run around like all the other tripawds but she just never did. Diagnostics would probably just confirm something neurological that we either wouldn't want to put her through trying to repair or couldn't afford to have repaired. Some possibilities were a pinched nerve from walking as a tripawd or old age or damage from the accident. Cornell did do some kind of nero diagnostics prior to amputation but I can't remember what it was other then they said she should be fine. She does not seem to be in any pain and is perfectly happy to be helped. She is an invalid in the human sense but she doesn't know that. She still looks forward to getting fed, going for walks and car rides. She rarely has an accident in the house. We just have a routine to take care of her and it works for us.