ACL injury

—“Wait just one cotton-pickin’ minute,” my dog said as he hobbled toward my door. “You’re not hangin’ that flag out without me helping!”
My dog has a torn (or sprained) ACL.
I had to Google “ACL” = anterior cruciate ligament: the ligament that connects the thigh-bone to the shin-bone in one’s knee.
Injuring it is common to basketball players. They make sudden twisting motions above their sneakers tractioned to the floor.
Dogs get it too, according to my veterinarian, although my dog wasn’t playing basketball.
He was falling on slippery floors. All-of-a-sudden KERSPLAT!
Veterinarians and pet-supplies have floors that puddle urine. My doggy-daycare kennel has that too.
My dog needs rugs = something that won’t slip his feet.
My dog fell quite a few times recently, all on slippery floors.
Without a rug he can’t get up — he's terrified. Recently he fell again at my pet-supply. He had to be carried to a rug.
Fortunately ******** (“cutie-pie”) was there. She’s one that goes bonkers over my dog.
“Have you got a vet appointment?” she worried. Had she not asked I probably wouldna done anything.
$777.17. X-rays, blood tests, vet assessment; the entire kibosh.
And I just got done laying out $428.50 when he got sick. Probably a nest of baby bunny-rabbits. Down the hatch!
Well, I’ve spent more on dogs.
My dog’s name is “Killian,” but the vet calls him “Killian-2.” That's because we had an earlier Killian — same vet.
Both Killians were rescues, and both were Irish-Setters. All our dogs have been Irish-Setters; Killian-2 is Irish number-seven. (Killian-1 was number-five.)
So far, five of the seven were rescue. Killian-1 was abused, but Killian-2 is just a divorce victim.
I have a tee-shirt that says “if it’s not an Irish-Setter it’s just a dog.”
“Keep him quiet,” I’m told. “No running, jumping, playing, etc.” In Killian’s case that’s no hunting.
Zoombity-BOOM all over my giant pondless dog-park. Barking at all-and-sundry!
I dare not point out a bunny-rabbit.
Long walks are out, probably for a while. He can’t run anyway = although he tries — on three legs.
The drill is to avoid falls. KERSPLAT is probably why he hurt himself.

• A “rescue Irish-Setter” is usually an Irish-Setter rescued from a bad home; e.g. abusive or a puppy-mill. Or perhaps its owner died. By getting a rescue-dog I avoid puppydom, but the dog is often messed up. —Killian was fine. He’s my fifth rescue, rescued two years ago at age-9.