We have had our wee DorkyDog now for over five years, but I realised recently that I haven’t written about her since we were going through all the drama and stress of her total hip replacement – all the way back in 2022.
Ironically, I’m now making time to write about her just as we are staring down the barrel at another potential surgery. Poor girl has been in clear discomfort every evening for the last month or so, and after some x-rays and conversations with the vet it looks likely she’ll need the other hip replacing too – but there may also be a knee issue we need to sort out first.
I’m very grateful that we ignored all the folk who told us not to bother getting pet insurance. Even if we didn’t make any more claims for the next ten years, I reckon we would still come out ahead.
But needless to say, DorkyDog – or Luna Bear, as we know her – is far more than the sum of her sore and stiff joints. Although that overwhelming first year of puppydom, surgery included, was a real shock to our quiet household, I don’t think any of us were prepared for quite how deeply she would embed herself in the family, and how fiercely we would come to love her.
(I have paused my writing at this point to walk into the room off my office, where she is stretched out napping in a sunny spot on the bed. Just to give her a little kiss on the head.) Continue reading →
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