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Originally Posted by fenris
This is just sad - very sad. It is all too humiliating to see the dog suffer like this - and go to all this training and treatment. It is cases where a dog should have help run over the rainbow-bridge to prevent an invalid life. I cannot support this and feel a strong urge to utter my opinion about it - NO.
Fenris
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You would be right, in the case the dog was really suffering. But from the pictures you can see, the dog is smilling, even when put into the cart. If Freyr is eating, moving around (even in the cart) and smilling, then she wants to live and she definatelly does not see her life as crippled.
Dogs can get over loosing a leg much better and faster, than people. They do not pity themselves, thinking - oh, what a poor ugly dog I become. No.
They get used to run on three legs, and that´s it.
If there is nothing wrong physically with Freyr´s legs, then with the right therapy and help of the cart there is big chance, the dog will walk again.
I´ve seen many dogs with big troubles at the local hydrotherapy centre in Chaumont Gistoux. They had there also a dog, could not feel his back legs, could not walk anymore and the veterinarian suggested euthanasia. In such case, I´d not be surprised, if the dog was euthanised. But yet the owner persisted and started hydrotherapy and acupuncture - and now the dog is walking again! To me, that case is a small miracle.
But maybe there´s a miracle waiting for Freyr, too.