The Doctor is great. He's very happy and gets along with my parents' dog. After a calm first few weeks he's letting out his inner playful puppy - shredding stray papers, pulling tablecloths off tables, and raiding forgotten grocery bags (so far he’s expanded his palette to Cosco corn muffins and vanilla biscotti from my parents trip to Arthur Avenue).
He was neutered yesterday and is doing well today, resting more than usual but pretty normal otherwise. The night before my mother and gave him a pep talk, assuring him we wouldn’t think of him as any less of a man afterwards and serenading him with Sinatra’s “For Once in My Life” which we decided would be his theme song. I also asked the vets to check out a limp in his front right paw. Lately he’s been making due with the other 3. After poking and prodding and a telling resounding yelp they localized the problem to his right shoulder. They did some X-rays, which I did not know would cost me 100$ a pop, and found that he has calcified cartilage and arthritis in his shoulder joint. Due to his young age and small size, they deduced that it’s not general wear and tear (they usually see this type of damage in Great Danes) and probably the result of some trauma he experienced when he was young and still growing, possibly he was hit by a car. Poor guy. The best they can do is anti-inflammatory medicine.
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