Favoring

I just got back from the vet. Buster's been favoring his right foreleg a little the last two or three days - limping, holding it off the floor, like that. It's off and on, but he's going on fourteen years old, and you don't want to take chances at that age.

Just on the basis of manual examination, the vet thinks that it's not a bone or tendon problem, but most likely a soft tissue problem, a pulled muscle or something. They gave me a couple of pain meds to give him for a couple of weeks, and if that doesn't clear it up I'll bring him in again for X-rays.

They want me to keep him from jumping up or down for the next while. Heh. I'll see what I can do...