| Sacrum troubles - any experience with this?
Hi! I am a newbie here, and my name is Mickmuff (after Mikie and Muffin, my first set of dogs). I am having trouble right now with my maltese, Sophie, and wonder if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions regarding her sacrum.
Last summer Sophie went to bed one night just fine, and woke up with an obvious issue with her back legs. We don't know what happened - perhaps a fall off the bed or down the stairs while we all slept. Anyway, we took her to the vet who initially felt her all over, had her walk, and pronounced that he suspected it was a muscle pull or such. He gave her a NSAID, told us it may take a while to heal, and that was that.
Well during the winter it got much worse, and has continued to get worse. We took her back to the vet, who took an x-ray and toldus she "did something" to her sacrum. He did not specify what, gave us more NSAID and basically inferred that it would take quite a while for her to heal. Well we are to the point where she won't stand up and walk - at all. OK, so maltese have a tendency to want to be carried (at least mine always have).
Funny thing is, she can do pretty much everything she has always done, leg-wise. She scratches with both feet, she sleeps on both sides of her body, she sleeps flat on her back with her legs spread, and does that crazy wiggle flat on her back to scratch her back. she stretches both legs out behind her when she wakes up. to get around, she leaves her right leg out to the side and uses it like a "paddle", with her left leg under her body, but it does do it's own paddling too. I do notice that the left leg is usually retracted when just laying down and such.
Does anyone have any thought or ideas? I would think she was faking it somehow, but today she actually pooped sitting down. What a mess!
Thanks so much from:
Deb
Steve
Sophie and brother Jake | 
