and Flutter will need to have her leg removed.
I thought I'd be completely devastated by the news, but I'm actually happy. She's been having such a hard time walking the past week or so. Her hips have been swaying at off angles and she's been "clumping" along instead of sure, smooth strides like she was doing. It seems her weight HAS influenced her balance as the vet thought it might.
She's already 4 months old, and since she's still sick with coccidia, we have to wait at least the 10 days that is prescribed with Albon to schedule the surgery, then untold amount of time before they can fit her in.... she'll then have a two week recovery period. She'll be 6 months by the times its over. Because of that, we will wait another month or so to do her spay.
Poor little thing -- lots of surgeries in her very near future.
The attached video is of her playing the other day. I tried to get her walking, but she wasn't cooperating, so I enlisted the aid of the feather teaser. You can sort of see how she clumps along.
Please turn your sound down or off because I had the camera resting on the carpet and it picked up the sound of me shifting the camera side to side whie she played... its not the prettiest sound!
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