On consecutive night's walks, Teddy let his pent up puppy energy get the best of him (not being able to go to the dog park has been rough on him), and started jumping around on the leash. These side to side movements ultimately ended up in him tweaking his leg injury and whimpering in pain. It's like a dagger in my heart every time I have to hear him in pain.
So after re-aggravating his injury on Saturday and Sunday night, we decided to take Teddy back to the vet's office and get his leg looked at again. The vet confirmed the original opinion that nothing seems to be broken, but how do you make a puppy understand that he can't run around without risking further injury?
Well, you don't. You do this:
This is Teddy's new couture; a soft wrap to help stabilize the leg and keep him from tweaking his injury (which is more than likely an ankle sprain of sorts) for the next few days.
I like to tell Teddy that it's his QB wristband, and he's got to keep making the correct play calls.
Or it's the puppy version of the
Save Darfur wristbands.
No matter what I say... he seems to be comfortable with it. So we're happy.
