Puppy news has to wait

Today I was going to update with new puppy photos we got in over the weekend but something more important came up. I know what you're thinking, what can be more important than PUPPY PICTURES?!?

Well on Tue night (June 30th) UCME So Lonely went out on the race track like any other race but sadly it was not like every other race for Lonely. She broke her leg :(

The track vet didn't feel that it was a bad break so it was wrapped and we set up an appointment for an X-ray with Dr. Blackburn's office.

Good friends to all Fishdoggies, Mike and Judy helped us with transport and I have to give a huge SHOUT OUT to Mike. He even thought to get a photo of the x-ray while at the vets office, which then allowed us to show Dr. Carol what sort of break we were looking at.

The more info we can pass along the better. So Mike, THANKS for thinking on your feet taking that photo =)

Results from Lonely's x-ray showed that there was displacement in the hock area. Not the news we had hoped for. Lonely would need surgery.

A call was quickly placed to our friends at GPA-Nashville and the ball really got rolling.

Lonely will be transported to Dr. Pearce's office tomorrow morning by Mike and Judy's son, Kevin. THANK YOU KEVIN!!

Where she will have her surgery, recover and then will come on back to rehab in our kennel.

I know sometimes our owners might not know all the in's and out's of what goes on and this is just one of the many things that happens.

A broken leg hound isn't always just a wrap and set. Sometimes it's much more then that and so much more goes into .

Getting the dog to the vet for x-rays, understand and making choice from what those x-rays show, transports, adoption groups lined up and much more.

So when you see a dog that is rehabbing from a broken leg on one of those adoption sites please know how much work goes on behind the scenes. Not just with the kennel, not just the adoption group but many times there are all sorts of folks pitching in to help out and I can never thank each and everyone of them enough.

Hopefully nothing more pops up and new Puppy pictures tomorrow =)