Hope your Frenchie is doing better, Sue. Wishes for a speedy recovery and that she will be coming home soon!

She's a cutie. Hoping you get good news soon.

She is a cutie indeed, I hope today brings you good news.

Oh my, I am sorry to hear about your poor lil' one. I did not think I like bulldogs, but her portrait is so winning!

FWIW, i recall a very odd incident with Martha Stewart's french bulldog that sounded similar. I think it was fine! I tend to agree that it was a secondary event. Hope you get it resolved soon and she can come home.

She's going into surgery now for a ruptured disc. She will have to be in her crate for 2 weeks after she goes home, which will be interesting. The dr said Frenchies are prone to disc problems and she could have injured herself just hopping off the sofa...so going forward we'll need to train her not to jump on or off any furniture. That will be interesting as well! Her morning routine involves following DH upstairs to jump on the bed to wake me up every morning! Not to mention jumping on the sofa to snuggle...

Oh well. One step at a time.

Aww, at least you have an answer now. Hope it goes smoothly and that recovery is quick. Is she being operated on near your beachhouse? Lucky you are there another day.

I hope all goes well with the surgery and that she makes a speedy recovery :)

Oh gosh, wow, but at least you have an answer. Hoping for a good surgery and speedy recovery. Maybe you will need to get ramps like these so she doesn't jump? Of course, training her to use them is something else.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/dog-supplies/ramps-stairs/ps/c/3307/18712

Glad to hear the drs are fixing her up! I purchased ramps and stairs much like gscience has shared for my elderly golden/lab to get up onto my bed and in/out of the SUV. It didn't take much to train him to use them-- and they made things a lot easier for me when trying to manage two large dogs-- one elderly and one with cancer.

All my best wishes for a quick and uneventful recovery!!

It's sad that your pup needs surgery, but at least now you know what the problem is and hopefully the surgery will go smooth and she will heal quickly.

Awww! Sorry you'll have to go thru surgery and re-training for a while, but also glad you have found the source of the problem. Best wishes and good luck with the surgery and recovery! Keep us posted.

Oh My Sue, I am so sorry about your little Frenchie. Hopefully the surgery will work it's magic and your little one will quickly be back to normal.

Prayers for successful surgery, recovery, and beyond.

Thanks for update. Glad you found some answers. Take care of yourself, too. :))

Poor baby. I'm also glad they found the problem. They make stairs for dogs, doyou think she'd use them for the sofa and bed?

Poor little doggie. Hope she feels better real soon, But that's got to be a pricey bill....yikes!

Whew! I'm so glad that she's going to be made better. Mine are also bed cuddlers and love to snooze on the chair and loveseat in my office while I work. What is the baby's name?

Very happy to hear your girl will be ok. There's some pretty snazzy steps for small dogs too.

DH mentioned the stair/ramp idea too. I just don't know...I could see her just deciding to jump off the sofa quickly even if we tried to train her otherwise. I'm thinking it might be easier to just say "no" to being on the furniture at all. Our other dogs aren't allowed (yes, she is the princess of the house). Fortunately she's already used to being in her crate whenever we go out, and to sleep at night, so while being crated 24/7 won't be easy, it's not as if she's never been crated. (She has separation anxiety and has been known to chew things if we go out and she's not crated.) I did buy her a bigger crate today, so she can move around a little!

I told DH we should get rid of all our sofas and chairs and just have bean bag chairs and dog beds...

Oh, her name is Sydney (we didn't name her...that's another story!).

I'm glad she's getting taken care of. Maybe after the surgery she will no longer feel up to jumping and will appreciate the stairs/ramp. Hope she feels better soon.

Training a dog to stay down isn't the hard part, the hard part is sticking to the plan especially when you get those sad eyes staring at you and all the guilt that goes with it. We recently decided to keep our lab off of the sofa for a number of reasons. The hardest part was the look she'd give us when we told her no or to get down.

OH Poor Sydney! I know that my Frenchie will jump off anything. No fear ever. I was warned of these types of injuries, and try to get the others in the house to keep him from jumping. I will share your story.

Crate rest is going to suck. Hopefully at first she'll be tired and time will pass quickly. I'm so sorry!

Bless her heart. I'm glad they found out what it was and I hope she recovers quickly. Our medium size dog used to get on our sofa and bed all the time. I taught him not to in less than a week.

sorry to read about your little pup! I hope the surgery went well and she heals well!

I absolutely think it will be much easier and safer to teach your dog not to jump up on furniture, etc than to try to try and monitor her use of ramps to get up and down places.

dog injuries are so hard because they don't understand why they can't do what they instinctively want to!! (I currently am dealing with trying to keep 2 dogs from chewing on bandages... :(

She's doing so well they're springing her a day early! I'm heading to get her in a couple of hours.

Yay!!!! That is great news! :)

Give her an amazing floor bed and she won't ever leave it. My dogs LOVE cushy, large, bolster beds.

When Bailey was recovering from his surgery and couldn't walk for 2 weeks, I got him some puzzle games to keep him entertained/ keep his brain active when he couldn't do normal doggy stuff. The Nina Ottosson puzzles are wonderful! We have four or five different ones we've acquired and the dogs love them. It is an interactive activity you can do with your dog. Just in case you are looking for something to keep your girl from getting bored during recovery :)

you're so right bumblebeez, once our lab had a spot to call her own, it was a none issue....

We have 3 cushy dog beds. Syd just prefers a human lap.

She is doing amazingly well. It's hard to believe she had spinal surgery on Tues and on Wed evening was trying to run in the back yard (we stopped her!). Crate/small room for SIX WEEKS! Ugh. Her crate is in my home office so when I'm in there, I can close the door and let her roam around. It's a small room with nothing for her to jump on. Need to "bicycle" her legs 20-30 times 3-4 times a day. Outside on lead for 5 minutes at a time. I notice she's already learned to pee/poop more quickly!

Thanks for all your caring thoughts. So nice that there are so many dog lovers here!

Awwww! We should all be so resilient! ... and photogenic!

So sweet!! Sounds like she is adapting to this better than you had hoped. Glad she is home and doing so well!

What a cutie!! We have a little dog (10 lbs.) and she's always slept at the end of our bed (she guards us LOL). We have always had steps for her, she couldn't get on the bed on her own otherwise. She doesn't get on other furniture, other than she has a spot in the sunroom, and I just have her a blanket there. She has beds (nice beds!) and will use one near our kitchen when we are eating, etc. but otherwise she just prefers to snuggle up next to her people. It's not about a space of her own or a cushy bed, it's about being close to us. We never crated, but when she was younger, we kept her in one room with a baby-gate. She has run of the house now - with no problems.
Glad your "princess" is doing so well!! She'll probably be fine in one room - as long as one of you are with her. She'll want to be with you. Glad they found the problem and took care of her!! Scary.

I am SO happy to see her home!! Such a love.

So glad your little sweetie is home & on the mend! Those eyes! Precious!

And for the 1000th time I've said to DH "good thing I don't have a real job..."

She's been fine about the confinement so far but I wonder how she'll be in a few days when she's off the meds (which are probably making her a bit sleepy)!

Oh my gosh Sue, she is just a beautiful girl. I am so happy that she's home and doing so well.

Six weeks of cage rest is not easy! Our Maddie (Jack Russell Rat terrier mix) was kicked by a horse and it dislocated her hip and gave her a concussion when she hit the stable wall. I carried her outside to potty, fed her in the cage, exercised her legs as you were told to do, and by about three weeks she was trying to escape. I worked from home as much as possible to provide her with companionship,. Today, four years later, she can run like the wind but goes up steps gingerly and down them with her right back leg hiked up. We did not think she would survive and yet she did. Thank goodness your little Syd is all right!

Oh what a cutie! Praying the six weeks goes quickly for her and her family. I'm sure all will be happy when it's over. What a sweet doggie Mommy you are.

Glad to hear she's doing so well. I bet she's getting extra hugs these days.

she is adorable! good luck for a speedy recovery syd!

Precious baby! So glad she's doing well!

That's great she's doing well! You're a good mom.

I had to crate (except for outdoor potty breaks on leash) one of my dogs for three months during heart worm treatment two years ago. It was hard, but not as bad as I thought it would be. A good outcome makes it worth it.

Sydney is a beautiful girl! She's lucky to have you to help her recuperate. We had a Springer who blew out an ACL and had to be confined-not easy, but he got lots of loving and recovered quite nicely. (Then he blew out the other one........,) Here's to a speedy recovery for your precious girl!

What a darling picture. What area of the spine was her surgery? Glad to hear she is adjusting so well. We had several sets of stairs for our little guy who had spine problems from jumping off furniture. He's gone now but our two other dogs prefer to go down the stairs versus jumping. The fact that she regularly sleeps in her crate at night makes your situation much easier for her.

Between 2nd and 3rd vertebrae, so in her neck. She is already trying to run and jump -- amazing how quickly they get back to themselves! She's been good about the crate so far, though.

She is such a darling. Glad to read that she is bouncing (or not, really) back so quickly. It really is hard to keep them quiet and calm, isn't it?

I know you were joking about the bean bag chairs but when my rottie/mastiff was recovering from surgery, my nieces and the neighborhood girls came in after school and on weekends and setup bean bag chairs, floor pillows, and blankets on my living room floor so that they could lounge with Grace and keep her calm and happy to be still. They played board games and cards and watched endless movies. It was so helpful to me-- and absolutely precious. Both Grace and my other dog Beau have since died but it's one of my favorite memories.

Thrilled to hear that she's doing so much better-- this is great news!

Funky, that is a sweet story. And SueB, who couldn't love that face?