Since this is my blog, and nobody is going read this, IâÂÂm just going blog about this rare incident that happened to the dog IâÂÂm dogsitting. So one day, I wake up from my nap, because my dog was licking my face, (I donâÂÂt know why she likes to lick me. When I come home, she licks me. When I sit down, she licks me. When I take a nap, she licks me. What I mean is that she slobbers all over my face, mouth, nose, glasses and cheeks. And she doesnâÂÂt lick anybody else either. When I do ask her for a âÂÂkissâ she just goes to sleep.) I asked her to get her âÂÂtoy-toyâ and as she walked away I noticed that her tail looked weird. She is a two-year-old black lab and her tail is supposed to be up in the air smacking things off the table (she knocked my cup off the table more than once). However, her tail was limp and didnâÂÂt move. I told my mom about it about it but she said that maybe the dog was tired.
The next morning, my parents finally realized that there was something wrong with her because she was behaving sad and didnâÂÂt want to move or eat and couldnâÂÂt wag her tail. We did some research and found that she had âÂÂCold Tail or Limber Tailâ syndrome. The tail is held horizontally for 3-4 inches from the tail base and then drops down and clamps to the body and stays in this position even when the dog moves around. It is said that this happens when dogs go swimming or bathing in too cold or too warm water. And we took my dog out in the rain two days before.
Limber tail is also associated with muscle damage in the tail. My family thinks the dog was too happy staying with us and wagged her tail too hard and too much and strained the muscles in her tail. At the same time, when we played tug-of-war with her, she fell on her butt. A lot.
Complete recovery is usually seen by two weeks and well itâÂÂs only been five days and her tail is starting to look better.
At the same time, sixteen percent of the dogs that get Limber Tail get a permanently altered tail.
So my advice is to not let your dog out in the rain.