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Our 5-year old Harper has had 2 incidents in the last couple of days. Thursday night I saw her walking along and all of a sudden she yelped in pain and her back end collapsed and then she just got back up and kept on walking. She seemed 100% fine after that.
Then Friday night the same thing happened. She started growling and it looked like her back legs gave out like they were totally useless. This time, she stayed like that for about a minute and then went back to normal: running, jumping, purring. She went from not being able to use her legs to jumping on the fridge in a matter of 2 minutes, so it didn't seem an orthopaedic issue.
Today (Saturday morning) we took her to the vet and they did X-rays and blood work and found nothing out of the ordinary on either. We're trying to get a neurologist consult but it might be several weeks before we can make that happen.
Our vet is quite thorough and we have a lot of faith in him. He said he's never seen anything like this before. With the hind legs giving out, saddle thrombus was our big worry but apparently that doesn't come and go like this. Just wanted to throw this out here and see if anybody had any thoughts on what might be going on.
Then Friday night the same thing happened. She started growling and it looked like her back legs gave out like they were totally useless. This time, she stayed like that for about a minute and then went back to normal: running, jumping, purring. She went from not being able to use her legs to jumping on the fridge in a matter of 2 minutes, so it didn't seem an orthopaedic issue.
Today (Saturday morning) we took her to the vet and they did X-rays and blood work and found nothing out of the ordinary on either. We're trying to get a neurologist consult but it might be several weeks before we can make that happen.
Our vet is quite thorough and we have a lot of faith in him. He said he's never seen anything like this before. With the hind legs giving out, saddle thrombus was our big worry but apparently that doesn't come and go like this. Just wanted to throw this out here and see if anybody had any thoughts on what might be going on.