last Tuesday I let all 5borzoi into the yard after work so they could run and play while I made them dinner. The 2 boys eat upstairs in the kitchen, they came in. The two 3yr old sisters each on the porch, no problem. 12 1/2 yr old Monet eats downstairs in the Landry room. She is normally a chow hound so I found it odd that she was not waiting at the back door for her food. I call her, nothing. It is 8:00pm and dark outside so I take a flashlight and go to look for her. Halfway down the yard I see her laying in the grass not making a sound. As I get closer I see that her mouth is covered in blood. Then when I get right up to her I notice that her back leg is at a funny angle with the bone sticking out, also blood covering that leg and the one below her. She is not making a sound, just looking at me. I run inside and tell me husband that I need help with Monet as she had broken her leg. I work at a vet's office so I call the on call doctor for the night and explain what has happened. She is about 1/2 hour awhile just finishing up a horse emergency. I wrap Monet's leg to try to help with the bleeding. Luckily it is just oozing out and not spurting out. After the dr arrives she gives her some pain Meds and we get Monet on a stretcher and take her to the clinic one mile away. The dr anestitisis her to assess the damage. We splint the leg and get the bleeding stopped. In the morning after a X-Ray it was decided to send her to the specialist to fix the leg with plates and screws. It was broken right above the hock. After he removed the splint and took more X-rays he said that the bone looked kind of funny and he was worried about osteosarcoma and that amputation would be a better option so that is what we did. It has been a week now and she is stronger on her remaining back leg but still has not mastered the getting up on her own. We are still using a towel to help get her up and keep her balance but she is doing more and more on her own. She was having trouble with fecal incontinence before this happened and that is still an issue. We had been doing acupuncture which had helped with back end strength so we are continuing to do that. We just take it one day at a time.