Bad news

 on the way to the vet

Mika had his second x-rays this afternoon and the result wasn't what we wanted to hear at all!

It seems his femoral head wasn't completely removed during the surgery or somehow a little part of it is still touching the acetabulum. This causes the discomfort and pain and that's the reason why Mika refused to put the foot down all the time.

I did wonder whether anything wrong happened during the first surgery when the vet told us the results in the late evening. I don't know much about FHO (Femoral Head Removal) and  have no idea whether it's a very complicated and tricky surgery or not.

Oh, I'm so lost now!!!

The vet that we visit has been in his practice for more than 10 years and he is reputable in this neighbourhood. He showed his concern when he saw Mika refused to use his injured leg and offered the second x-rays immediately. He didn't charge us today and he also won't be charging us for the surgery. However, money isn't the issue here. We feel so sorry that Mika boy has to go through another surgery again within a very short period of time. Life isn't very fair to him lately!!!


Mika is scheduled to have his blood counts on Thursday and surgery on Saturday.

We pray that he can have a full recovery after this and no more surgery in his life again.

Vet check-up

We took both dogs to the vet yesterday.

Eva for her deworming tablet and Mika for his leg.

We had been wondering when Mika would put his leg down, if he'd ever.

It tTurns out that there might be some sort of discomfort in his foot because when the vet pressed on his paw, he gave a loud yelp. 

He's going to have another x-ray next week to take another look.

Guess who's monthly-anniversary it was on Monday?

new camera

We got Rosie a new camera since she had been asking for one since ... forever.
She told us that even THE DOG (Eva) has her own personal camera which takes daily pictures of her!
After much searching and researching, and wanting lots and lots of expensive cool cameras, we settled on a Canon S90 which can be considered as one of the best compacts around.

Under low light we managed to get some nice pictures of Eva.

~Paw~

Eva is also currently learning some other tricks such as turn (doing the spinny thing) and shy.

Go get the ball!

Face shots

Sorry we missed wordless wednesday but hope these pictures make up for it and for tricky t-day too! lol!

We also took Eva to the vet to get her nails cut and it turns out that Eva does have a mild case of Hip Dysplasia. The vet also suggested to take another xray in 2 months time to see if we want to consider the surgery which can only be done before 1 years old. However, we don't really want to put Eva through that risk and no guarantee that everything will be alright in the end.

x-rays

Eva girl had her hip and heart x-rays yesterday.

The hip x-rays are because she always walks and runs a bit strangely and she looks like she has cowhocks.

The heart x-rays because her momma Hana had it and we're worried that Eva might inherit it.

The reports of the x-rays:
The hip - Eva's right hip looks fine at the moment but her left side has something called joint space increase. The vet's advice is to just leave it and give our girl some supplement and keep an eye on it. The worst case is she might need a surgery when she's bigger but if it's under control, we should just keep an eye on her as she's still developing. Apparently this joint space increase can't be fixed up except surgery (my understanding at the moment) but as long as it doesn't aggravate, we should just leave it. However, according to the vet, we need a second opinion and that's why he kept the films as he wanted to pass them to an orthopaedist who is in univsercity for a second opinion. We'll get back to him next Friday.


The heart  - According to the x-rays, Eva's heart looks clear and has no sign of heart enlarged problem. In the x-rays, due to her moving but not staying still, her heart looks a bit lopsided. The vet didn't give her anesthesia when he did the heart x-rays because he knew Hana had it and it's better not to put any burden on her. The anesthesia was only for the hip.

After a couple of hours at the vet's, Eva was happy to see us and the vet said she was an angel there as she made no fuss, no barking and behaved very well. She was so happy when we reached home, Mika and Laura all went to her and gave her loads of licks and sniffs of course. The little one jumped, ran and barked happily as usual.

To us, the x-rays report didn't sound too good nor too bad and we'll keep doing whatever we're doing with her right now.