Mike, I read the subject line and thought you must be talking about ME!!
Between dogs that keep getting cut up and turkey season, me and my potlickers are just about that way.
Good looking black dog. What happened to her leg? I had an old female cur that ran loose at the ranch and she hated coons. I encouraged it as they were always catching my chickens. Anyway, after the work was done for the day and help had left, I would go down and shut the gate and turn her loose. Many times she would pull out and go catch or tree a coon. Only the second dog out of these I ever saw actually tree and bark on the tree. Well if she treed you had to go get her as she wasn't coming back. One night I heard her treeing out in the heifer pasture and after eating supper I drove out there to shoot the coon so she would come back to the house. i got to where she had been barking and shined around but couldn't see her at all. She had quit barking but there were just a few big oaks in the area she had been treed. I got out of the truck and called her and she barked....above me....I looked up and she was 25-30 IN the tree trying to get the coon! I went to calling her trying to get her down, but she was way out on a small limb by then . When she went to turn around she fell. I watched her hit the ground and her rear leg just broke in half......I mean it folded back on itself. She got up, jumped in the truck like nothing happened, but every time she went to put that foot down, her leg would bend in half......
So, after a trip to the vet and her in a crate for 6 weeks, I have an idea of what you are going through. Good luck with it, hope she heals up okay.
