<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Here is my suggestion, based on Nigel and on Mitchell as well. It is just my opinion based on my experience and what little knowledge I have picked up working for the Vet.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></font> </div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">RUN do not walk. To your Vet for xrays of her spine. You are not looking for breakage you are looking for damage. I am absolutely shocked that the ER Vet did not suggest a review by an Orthopedic specialist. This is how dogs go down in the rear and your window for surgical intervention if it is needed, is very slim.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></font> </div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I am not trying to frighten you. I noticed one day that Nigel wasn't acting right. I took him in. One back foot was slow to right itself. It is called conscious propreoception. It means there is a delay between the brain and the nerve delivering the message.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Altho I saw the slowness in the response and altho I have been through it before and altho I worked over 20 yrs at the Vets, I did not heed the warning. And that's what it was. (This was not my regular Vet: he would never have missed that.) A warning that all was not well in the spine. He went home on meds. The next morning he could not walk.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">We did medical intervention and it did not work. The time frame for surgery was past.</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"></font></font> </div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">My rule (one of them.) is that whenever a Basset limps, staggers, seems weak, has slow conscious propreoception ( a test you can do by flipping the foot upside down: the dog should INSTANTLY pick it up and put it down correctly.Any lag is significant.) he goes in for comprehensive xrays of the back, neck and hips as well as bloodwork. Period. No exceptions. Even if I saw him trip over a step the day before, he goes in. </font></font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana">Mitchell, by the way, came back nicely with medication and rest.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana">Nigel did not.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana">MomPerson to Nigel, Llewis, Conley and Doc</font></div>