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Update: I found a place that agreed to admit her for pain control until Tuesday when they operate. She’s a strong, stoic, good girl who is too vibrant and healthy to be put to sleep. It’s definitely part me being selfish but I have the capacity and time to adequately look after her post-op.

@richard1970 I’ve called all the surgical centres that do this kind of surgery and because there’s no one available over the weekend I can’t get my questions about it answered so we are just kind of paused in either direction until Tuesday.

@monk58 I’ve just kind of accepted her trigger at this point-we have a word I use to let her know there’s a dog heading towards us if she doesn’t see it first so there’s no surprises, and I avoid leash walking all together and just head for this patch of forest we have permission to walk so she...

@daddyof2 She started explaining about surgery and how my dog, as a large breed (runt of her litter, only 80 lbs, smallest by far) she was at the end of her life expectancy? And more talked about the complications and if she died from infection or poor healing or a rebreak then went to...

10 year old mixed shepherd-I left my girl with our dog sitter Thursday, we flew to the states Friday…Thursday she jumped a fence (as she does) for a squirrel, Landed, yelped and stopped weight bearing. Sitter got her into the vet and she snapped her humerus. Options are surgery or euthenasia…she...