Skellington and myself were out for a walk one day. Everything was normal. He lifted his leg to pee and when he put it down he was limping. I picked him up. Searched the bottom of his foot for a splinter, glass, whatever. Nothing. Not even a scratch so we kept on going. A week or so went by and he was still limping so we took him to the vet. The one doctor said that it was arthritis. I found this hard to believe and I told her the story about how he started limping. He never had shown signs of this before but she insisted that that is what it was. Well, who am I to argue. We bought the medications and went on our way. So a week later and the poor guy is still hobbling around on three legs. We took him in again to see a different doctor this time. This one did x-rays and lots of other motions with his leg. She determined that he tore his ACL. That's right, his ACL. He was just peeing! She said that we had two options. Let it heal on it's own or surgery. Surgery requires 12-16 weeks of recovery while letting it go meant 4 weeks of bedrest. If you know what Jack Russels are like this is nearly impossible but since he is 10 years old we went with this option. We went home feeling like we finally had the right answer to his limping. We did what we could over the next few weeks. We carried him up steps. After he would go #2 we would carry him home. Anything we could to take the stress off of his knee. It never would've been enough. The little guy went under the knife on Friday to repair what turned out to be a ruptured meniscus. Are you kidding me? He was peeing!!! Now you see the aftermath of all that ordeal. A green cast with Skellington from "A Nightmare Before Christmas" on it. I thought that that was pretty cool. The little guy is recovering but you can tell the painkillers are making him loopy and he sleeps with his eyes open a lot. I'm surprised at how well he gets around with his peg leg though. He can "jump" on and off the couch eventhough we are not encouraging that. He tries to run but often will just sit down because he can't the peg gets in the way. Oh well, at least he will be getting better soon.