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Hi guys. It been a while since i have been on the forum, The lay out has change a bit too. Well the reason I am wanting to chat to you guys is this morning my 2 year old Pat/Parson cross got run over with a car. We live in the country but the road is very busy so it is a full time job making sure the dog can't get out of our enclosed yard. However, we moved some of our bantams to the front garden in a wee cope I made. My wife went out to let them out of the box and took the dog with her. My dog, Nell, has an extra ordinary nose, I think she is 1/2 hound. While the wife was open the cope door, Nell picked up the scent of a fox and took of like a greyhound accross the field straigh out unto the road and got hit with a car.

 

She is going to be in the vets office until Friday. She needs an operation to the front leg which has serveral breaks. They are going to have to put a steel plate on it to hold it together to get it to set. My fear was from what they told my wife it would never knit back, but I have a shooting friend who is a vet and he assures me it will and this procedure is the best for good recovery.

 

Here is what I want to know. Have any of you every had such a break with your terriers and if so did they come back to full spec. Nell is so athletic and will run all day. I just don't want her to jump over a ditch some day and the leg snap.

 

Would value your experience here. I love this littler mut and it seem like a life time to wait until Friday before I will see her.

 

BD

 

PS. The fox was also hit by a car 1/2 up the road so at least she maybe played a roll in killing that one. ;)

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Talked to the vets yesterday. They didn't do the operation as they didn't have small enough steel plate for her leg so hopefully it will happen today. They can't make promises but the vet said if Nell was her dog with this break she would be very happy as where the break is it is the best place to give her a chance to full recovery. The plate will not be near a joint and if she heals well we could take it out latter. In the mean time I have been told to ensure she down scales her life for up to 2 month. She needs to be kept in a cage in the house and I have had to make a gate to fit to the bottom of the stairs to stop her jumping from about 1/2 way up down to the ground floor.

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The best terrier I owned was hit by a car in its first year, that one was pinned too. Once right, didn't make a pennys worth of difference to the dog, it grafted till it was around ten then lived a fireside life with my parents till forteen. It would push on into the tightest spaces, could run like feck (it was a leggy Lakey) and climb like a cat too!

Best of luck with yours. :thumbs:

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post-38242-0-10365900-1319221801.jpgThanks guys your experiences are reasuring.  The vet call me at 1830hrs to say the steel plate didn't arrive and it will now be Monday [bANNED TEXT] the operation.  I am a bit Pd off about this but they assure me it will have no negative impact on the healing process.  I just miss her like mad as I haven't seen her since Wed morning and when I left for work she was fine.  People say she is just a dog but to me she is also my best [bANNED TEXT].  I will update next week. Edited by Big Dog222
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My bitch Nell got her stiches out today. The operation so far has been a success. The steel plate was fitted and she need to live a very low life until at least Christmas. It is hard keeping her calm as she is a cross between a Pat and a monkey :laugh: . She out for this season and as she is just past 2 years this would have been a great season for us both. I have shot 2 foxes in the past 2 days and no dog with me.

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