In case you are wondering the answer to this question,$61.40, is how much it costs to take your dog for a walk!!! The Monday after the girls' bday party, Mom and I decided to walk to the school to pick up the girls. Mom suggested that we should take Noel. So, I pushed the girls in the stroller and Mom walked Noel. It was her first time going for a "real" walk. She pulled, tugged, jumped, etc. Mom got quite the workout. A roundtrip to the school and back is about 1 1/2 miles. We get home and notice that Noel is limping on the leg that she hurt. Whoops! We were feeling bad that we overdid it on the walk. By the time my mom left, Noel could not walk. She couldn't put any weight on her front left leg( injured leg) nor could she put any weight on her right back paw. It was quite a sight watching her walk. Great! I was feeling like a terrible "mother". It was so bad by bedtime that Ryan carried her upstairs to our room. She tried to hobble a little the next morning. It wasn't good. I took her to the vet, and $61.40 later it was decided that she had scuffed her paws on the walk. There were little white dots on the pads of her feet, on the legs that she was limping on. Mental note - the next walk will be down the street and back! Expensive lesson learned!!! By the way, do dogs have 9 lives like cats????? Noel is going to need them.
Noel - chewing on a straw!!!
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