Fresca

My best lead dog Fresca got hit by a car last month. She had multiple fractures but no damage to internal organs. At nine years old, she was the oldest dog to make my race team, and I will sorely miss her. However, she is housetrained and has been a full time housepet for a long time, so at least I have not lost her company.

She is about halfway through her recovery time right now. She had surgery to fix her pelvis and broken foot, but her left hip joint was destroyed, and her broken tail could not be reattached to the spine, so it is still there, but she does not have control of it. This type of surgery is pretty expensive. We are in debt to the tune of about three thousand dollars for her treatment.

Although Fresca's left hip joint is gone, she will eventually be able to walk on that leg anyway. The broken foot is a complication because she needs to bear weight on that leg in order to build up the muscles that will compensate for the missing hip joint. We are working on getting her on the right combination of pain medications that will allow me to work more aggressively with that leg.

Her hair is growing back, but you can still see the long scar where they went in to fix her pelvis.