Sierra! Let's talk about Sierra!

With Moon safely in her forever home it is time to tell you all about little Sierra. Here is her story. Sierra is another rescue from Central CA shelter system, and I believe she was a stray that no one claimed and her time was up as no one stepped up to adopt her, so she was brought into New Rattitude and our wonderful Lynn who finds these dogs and temps them and gets them to the transport van was able to pull her in the nick of time.

Sierra had a very bad luxating patella on her left hind leg. She is about 1 1/2 years old and it was so bad that she apparently never used the leg due to pain, poor thing. When she was rescued by New Rattitude she was given the opportunity to have surgery to correct this and get her out of the pain she was in. Because she never really used the leg the muscle has atrophied, that coupled with the post surgery tightness makes getting her to straighten the leg and put weight on it a real challenge. After all she has lived as a tri-pawed dog for her life as far as we can tell.

Our job is to help her gain strength in that leg and to also be the bad guys and keep working on stretching it, which is challenging because she doesn't like us to stretch it. But we have other ideas up our sleeve and so I will post about her journey getting used to being a quad pawed dog. Sierra really is a love and a gentle spirit as you will see in future posts about her budding personality.

One other challenge is she does NOT like her picture to be taken so I am going to have my work cut out for me. We'll get there though. Bear with me as so far I don't have a lot of pictures to show how adorable she is yet.

She loves to go for walks, she has logged 20 miles with is so far in less than a week.

Here is a good picture that shows the way she normally holds her little leg up.

Here is a video of her getting to know the pack, including Yoshi who was here with us at the time. She was super friendly and no one was concerned about her at all! She just fit right in.