Well it happened again

Well for those readers that have been following this blog for a couple of years you are familiar with the fact Ike partially tore his Achilles tendon a couple of years ago and he was in a cast/splint from April until the end of July.  Well as of last Friday, he did it again.  No idea how he did it, we were in the back yard playing fetch like we have 1000 time before and he took off after the stick and about 15 feet away he yelped and started holding the same leg up... 

So I took in to the emergency vet hospital (the same one that worked on him before) and lucky for me the surgeon that worked on him before was just getting out of a different surgery and consulted with the ER Vet and said, "Looks like he aggravated it again...  Soooooo   here we are again with the same splint as before.. And Hunting season is just about 8 weeks away. 

I will keep everyone up to speed, as we don't go back for another week or so for a status check..   A funny aside to this, is This happened a week ago Friday, and we had our neighborhood block party the next day and Ike was the hit of the party.. All the kids were giving him so much affection... Everybody sure loves Ike... 

So Sunday we were all relaxing after the party and Ike go up from the chair and walked right out of the splint....   Sandy and I looked at each other and said, "What the heck??"  So Monday on my lunch hour back to the vet we went...   and they reapplied the splint.. The Tech said he was getting around quite well without it but he seems a little too active to go without it..  Ya think???   LOL... He has been a good boy with it though, not chewing on it so no "cone of shame" necessary.....
More to come but no "Ike, find that bird" at least for a while.