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Cuteness!
That is my doggie as a pup! I have another dog, but I don't have any pictures currently, since the one in this picture has grown up as well. He's an Australian Shepherd, and my other older dog is a mix breed (border collie/spitz is what we think he is).

Love of my Life ^_^

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Hehe, thank you! ^_^ His name is Rugby, and my other dog's name is Zak (I'll try and dig up a picture at some point).

What makes me sad, though, is something that happened in November. Ok, so he's about three, going on four on March 17th. He has always been an oddball, he hops up stairs like a rabbit (with his back legs together), and he sometimes will sit with his front half on the couch, and he also likes us to push up his back half so he can get all the way up on the couch or a bed. We really thought nothing of it, I mean, this is a dog that used to walk into walls and windows when he was a pup, no joke! And he also wiggles when he's happy, I mean, basically his whole body wags! So yeah, we thought nothing of it.

Well, we were helping my dad out with his cheese factory/store that's two and a half hours away from where we really live (no, my parents aren't divorced, he just works here, its basically now the family business). So, I was taking a break, and kicking a soccer ball for Rugby. Well, the ground is uneven, and we don't know exactly what happened, but he tripped over the ball or something, and landed on his foot funny or something, but the next thing we know he's 'screaming' and panicking. He then starts to walk towards us slow and on three legs.

We didn't know what happened, and my mother was able (after about an hour) to find a vet in a town that was forty minutes away, so we had to drive Rugby who was still crying and everything. We had to leave him there the night at the vets we've never been to before, but thank goodness they really seemed fond of him. We got a call once they took X-rays, and they said that he'd dislocated his hip. But, normally they'd be able to snap it back into place, but they couldn't do that without risk of damaging his hip. The reason was the X-rays shows he has hip displasia, where if you know the ball and socket joint, instead of the socket being bowl shaped, its more of a plate. And also, I guess because of this, he has severe arthritis.

So, we were able to bring him back home, but had to wait two days before going to a vet in our town, but not one we've been to before since ours doesn't deal with those kinds of injuries. And then, a week after that, he had surgury to put his leg back into place. So yeah, he had to go on a week with a dislocated hip, and poor little fella has severe arthritis at the age of three. So apparently, the 'bunny hop' that he does up stairs is a sign of this hip displasia. He's better now, he's recovered from his surgery but we have to be careful with him so he doesn't dislocate it again, which they said he's likely to do sometime later in his life.