Broken Fibula

June 18th - My sister and I took Muddy to Dr. Simpkins office for xrays. After two weeks, Muddy had not gotten any better. We took several xrays of his left stifle area. He was such a good boy about it. He was a bit nervous, but stood there like a champ. Xrays show that his fibula is clean broke off his patella. Dr. Simpkins believes this is the main reason we are seeing the limping. Muddy has to be on pasture rest for at least 6 weeks to allow the bone to heal. We have no idea how he managed to break it. The xrays also showed a serious lack of cartilage in his stifle joints. The bones of the joint look good meaning no burrs or sharp points. It is unclear if this is causing any of the limping. I'm going to look into Adequan injections and later on down the line stifle injections. Hopefully, the break is the cause of the limping and after it heals he'll be good as new.