I think my Chinese pug broke her paw but it might be a sprain because it looks like she can put a little weight on it.It is swollen though and kinda just hangs there when she wobbles around.

I was out going to bring in my dog in cause she was barking, I was jogging to get to her quicker and y whole deck is ice and i slipped at the slippiest part and my ankle has a cut on it and it hurts. So I was wondering if it was sprained?

My dog whines and finds difficulty in walking and started limping yesterday. I checked for any wounds but there weren’t any. I dont know if he has sprained his leg. he does not like to put pressure on it. does anyone know any solutions to this or reasons as to why he is behaving this way?

My dog snagged one of his back toe nails on my back deck :O( It broke in half, and Im not sure if its also sprained or broke? Are there home remedies or something to help his pain?

My dog was lying in my room & when I went to take him out he slowly walked to the stairs (he’d have to walk down 7 stairs). Instead of coming down he laid down on the top stair & he yelped when we tried to coax him down. I checked him & he was shaking & when I went to see what was wrong I tried to pick him up he yelped & snapped at me. I got a treat to see if he’d eat it. Initially no, which is very strange for him, but then he did eat it.

I thought it was a broken or badly sprained limb. I tried to get him into the crate & he yelped like crazy & was biting. I called the vet just as they were closing. Eventually he made it to the living room. While he lie there I bent each joint & pushed on all parts of his stomach, body, etc. to locate the pain but can’t find anything. He did walk to the kitchen for dinner scraps so I thought he was OK, but now he is just laying halfway under the bed & depressed.

Does this seem like something serious or just a mild sprain or tummy ache?
He is a 6 year old Lhasa Apso and this is the first time he has ever acted this way.

I was just sitting around comparing two common athletic pets (horses and dogs) and was kinda wondering if there were more steps to keep dogs safe. I know there are booties for sled dogs but is that it? I hear dogs get injured quite a bit (sprains and such) in sports like lure coursing and agility. Horses have these sort of leg wrap things to help prevent them from sprains and stuff. Do they have these for dogs? What about cooling jackets?

I was exercising and turned my ankle. It didn’t bother me right away. It started hurting me 2 days later while walking my dog. It hurt so badly i could barely get home. It was swollen and i could barely do anything. IT’s been bothering me all week, is still swollen, and hasn’t gotten any better. I have sharp sudden pains, then it throbs, especially when i move it a certain way. Ive been wrapping it and icing it all week, and trying to stay off it. it’s been bad though, and not getting better. I also have to carry 30 lbs of books every day during school, so that makes it worse. What more should i do? How long should a sprain take to heal?? Any other advice on what i should do?

Where can I get Turmeric for my dogs sprained/broken leg and how much does it usually cost? Are there any other things I can do to help my dog with her pain and help her heal (besides going to the vet, because I’m a college student and therefore broke)? I’m pretty sure it’s only sprained because she limps on it and can bend it, but then again I’m not a vet so I don’t know.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I was putting this in general health. I meant for it to go in the Pets section. I haven’t been on yahoo!answers in a long time.
To *Muse*: I don’t think you have any right to criticize my ability to take care of an animal. I’m not going to give up the pet I’ve had for 6 years because I can’t afford a 500 dollar vet bill for a cast. Besides, in this economy, who can afford a vet bill? Also, I’m not trying to cure my dog on my own. I’m trying to take away some of the pain while she is healing. It is a sprain after all, it happens to dogs all the time, especially if they live out in the country. I think that, maybe, you should be looking at your own character and seeing how much you could really love a pet if you’re willing to just give it up when it gets too expensive. I gaurantee you I will find a way to help my dog, no matter how much it costs me, because I love her like a child. And on normal circumstances, she is a very healthy dog. So, what I came here for was advice, not criticism. If you don’t have any GOOD advice for me, then don’t say anything at all.
Again, to Muse: What I took offense to was the part where you said “If you can’t afford a pet, you shouldn’t have one”. I have plenty of money to take my pets to the vet for a check up and medication (my other dog is epileptic and takes seizure medication twice a day), I just don’t have 500 dollars for a cast (which I didn’t need because it was just a sprain). My mother is the one who usually helps me with my vet bills (because she is the one who GAVE me these pets), but she just got laid off last year and is now a full time student just like me. It’s not fair of you to suggest that I can’t afford to “take care” of my pets, I can perfectly well afford most of the amenities required of me as a pet owner (after all, all of my pets are fixed and up to date on their shots), I’m just in a tight spot for cash right now. By the way, my dog is perfectly fine, she has already healed. In fact, I called the vet before I even wrote this and he said it was more than likely a sprain.

The only reason I came on here, was because I needed advice to help her while she was healing. Turmeric is a natural healing plant that Indians (Natives of India) have given their dogs for centuries to help their bones heal and to take away the pain. So, next time you decide to be so judgemental, you should probably check the facts (or at least ask for them). You don’t know the situations of others, so you shouldn’t assume. I used to work for an agency that made calls to raise money for a prominent political party (I won’t say which) and when we called people in Michigan (a state with one of the highest rates of unemployment as of 2005) they couldn’t even give us a nickel. One lady told me she had just lost her job and her dog needed medication, but she couldn’t afford it and she didn’t have anyone in her life that was willing to help her out because they knew she couldn’t pay them back. Do you think I judged her? No.
The advice you gave wasn’t advice at all. It was just rude and you know it. That’s why I got upset; because you judged me before you even knew my situation.