It's a laceration about two inches long and about an inch deep on her right hind, just below her stifle. While it doesn't look *that* bad at first glance (bad, but not life threatening bad) it's very deceptive. A hour or two later, she started squirting joint fluid. Not. Good. She was immediately put in a stall, and a vet was called.
Good news: she's expected to make a full recovery. The injury doesn't seem to be too severe, and our biggest fear at the moment is infection. She's on some very powerful (and expensive) antibiotics and confined to a stall for the foreseeable future. But it's going to be a long recovery period. Like, three to four months. Ugh.
Tomorrow will be one week since the incident, and so far her wound is looking SO much better! She stopped leaking joint fluid on Monday, and she's not limping very badly at all (she has no trouble walking around her stall, and is actually doing donuts out of boredom. More on that later). The vet should be out again tomorrow to take another look, but it's healing so quickly that I think we'll be fine.
I'm hoping I'll get the go-ahead to start doing some gentle ground work with her. No circles, of course, but at least some porcupine game. We need to refine some of our games and I think it would help cut her boredom if I gave her something to think about.
But yeah. This week has been "fun".
J
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