A Shining Star

[doglady]

Star has been crated ever since the surgery so on Christmas day I let her out to be with everyone. She was like a wild child...checking everything out, but if I told her to settle she would sit down..tail wagging. She followed me everywhere and if I were to sit down she was right there with me. Of course begging for tidbits of cheese.

Yesterday she was out for awhile and she jumped into the bathtub and looked at me as if to say " When do I get my bath?" The scar on her shoulder that is almost covered up by her new fur. It will be 2 months (Jan. 7th) since she had her surgery and I will have to call the surgeon to give him an update. I know she will not be running free anytime soon and she will still have to be watched on jumping down off of things. I'll have to find out from him what her rehab will be.

[Dignity]

I must have missed something - what did she have surgery for?

Great pic of her!!

[doglady]

She had shoulder surgery back in November. Her left shoulder either didn't develop right or had gotten hurt when she was young causing a chip in her shoulder. She wasn't limping much until one day she couldn't walk on it and it turned out the muscle tore off and had to be surgically reattached.

Here is the threads
Limping Star II

Update

Great pic of her!!

Thank you. If you only seen the lengths I took to get that picture.

[Dax]

Glad to hear she's getting better. It's a great holiday picture.

[Deb's Tiny Dogs]

Sounds like she's making a great recovery! Great news!

[dogcraz_ee]

Your dog is lovely very nice photo. Is that a bird dog type? Very pretty.

[dobermom]

So glad to hear she is doing well. It must be so hard to crate her so much, but its for the best.
She is so pretty.

[doglady]

Originally Posted by dogcraz_ee

Your dog is lovely very nice photo. Is that a bird dog type? Very pretty.

Yes, she is a German Shorthaired Pointer. Before she had gotten hurt I was training her for bird hunting. Even though I haven't hunted in years and don't plan to...I wanted to train her for what she does naturally. Now I haven't seen a partridge all year, until the past 2 months. There has been 6 of them in the yard everyday, all day.

I have been bad and taken Star out on a leash with Angel showing her the proper way to stalk. A couple times I have taken her out alone and that little girl pointed out those birds. She even found one that was high in a tree that I didn't see until it flew off. I was so proud of her. An people say unless they are from strict hunt backgrounds they can't hunt...

[mara]

There's that beautiful Star!!! Sounds like she is recovering really well!!!
Yay Star!!

[Kim]

What a beautiful girl she is! Glad to hear her recovery is going well! Keep up the good work!