On Tuesday after we had come home from the doctor’s appointment, we had been downstairs talking to my mom downstairs. I had heard our dog upstairs yipping a couple of times but thought that she was getting into it with the cat that was also in our room, as it happens off and on. The yipping didn’t last very long so I thought nothing of it.

When we went upstairs, I noticed she was laying on her bed. I asked Jamie if she was in trouble because usually she jumps around and gets excited, she didn’t do any of that. He said maybe she’s just being a good girl. I thought, yea right!

So when my brother came into our room and she stayed there I thought, there’s something definitely wrong. I went to change my pants and she didn’t get up. So I told Jamie we need to look at her and figure out what’s wrong. She got up and had yipped like someone had kicked her.

She wouldn’t walk without yipping, she was shaking, and also breathing really heavy. Jamie checked out all her paws in case there was something stuck in her paw but found nothing. We got her to walk a bit, we had her roll on her back and she started urinating, which was worrisome as well! Finally, she laid down under Jamie’s chair and wouldn’t come out. She wouldn’t even come to us when we called her.

Right then we said she’s gotta go to the vet. It was 4pm and they close at 5pm unless you want to get charged for an after hours visit. So speedily (seriously, Jamie, who never speeds, was speeding! Thankfully, he stopped when I asked him to) we got in the car and took her to the vet.

We get there, find she weighs 80lbs and the vet sees her, after we had to muzzle her. She’s not socialized.

There’s a picture I was able to take with my phone when the vet was doing something else.

Well, he said he couldn’t find anything wrong with her. He said maybe she had sprained her back leg but he couldn’t tell. She didn’t walk funny, not once did she yip there (of course) and he pulled her legs, checked them all and even violated her by taking her temperature. He ended up giving her an anti-inflammatory pain medication to take for a week and sent us on our way.

Thankfully it didn’t cost too much, about $50 altogether which we were pleased about as we don’t have much money. That night she was chasing her tail and everything like normal. However, not well because she doesn’t charge up and down the stairs.

She’s getting better though and starting to take the stairs better. She hasn’t yipped since that night while walking or anything. We still don’t know what happened except maybe she jumped off our bed wrong since it’s pretty high up.

Who knows!