Poor Coco????

During the course of playing ball with Coco and Dino, Coco will bounce off the wall to catch the ball in front of Dino she would at times limp back to me with the ball in her mouth and still wanting to play. After the third time going to the vet, once on a Sunday, they got tired of putting her leg in a wrap and said that she was faking. As soon as we got back from the vets she would have the wrap off of her leg and ready to play again. Here is one picture of her in my arms after we got back this one time I put the wrap back on her leg but this picture shows us going to her (and mine) favorite place in the house, the kitchen. I try to put the picture up

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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on July 22, 2011 at 7:00pm

Try to keep her opportunities to bounce off the wall to a minimum. Corgis notoriously do not know their limitations. I think she looks so happy in this photo because she is close to the potato chips!

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Permalink Reply by Anna Morelli on July 23, 2011 at 10:33am

I doubt very much she was "faking". The fact she recovers fairly quickly from the limping can be because she only limps when the pain is sharp. Whatever is going on, I would take it as a red flag for that particular way of playing ball with the dogs. It is a safer and cheaper solution than having to solve problems down the road when they show up more consistently or in a bigger way. In other words: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.