our night at the vet

I took Piper to the vet for her 3rd round of puppy shots and to have Kota's leg looked at..... he started being intermittently lame back in January. Sometimes he'd be fine, and other times he'd be really light on his right rear leg.. After agility season ended (summer came), I decided to give him a few months of no activity to see if it was a soft tissue injury. Agility season has started up again so I decided it was time to take him to the vet and have it looked at....

Piper looking up at me as she was relaxing on the floor in the vets office waiting for Kota...

Piper being checked out by the vet tech....
more waiting....
Kota's x-rays.... You can see the little coil near his right knee....
a side view - the vet wanted to have a good look at his spine since I mentioned all the folks I knew with Corgi's going down in the back - so she took this 1) to look at the spacing between his disks, and 2) to look at the leg from another angle...

a closer view of the leg
The spacing between his disks is great she said - there's a bit smaller of a space between two disks (disk 3 and 4 in this picture from the left), but nothing she was concerned about in the least...
a closer view of the problem leg and the coil again...

the pair after the lights came back on while we were all chatting... too bad Kota looked away! :(
Dr. Carey (she rules) said she will call me this weekend once she's had a chance to consult with a cardiologist (Dr. Church). I have a gut feeling that another surgery might be in Kota's near-ish future... and if that's the case, I might just have him neutered at the same time... if he's out, I'd might as well! :)

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we look for resolution to this issue - and hopefully he can get back out onto the agility field soon - he MISSES it dearly!!!!

PS: Piper weighed in at 14.2 pounds today. Kota weighed in at 34.6 pounds.