Kassidy Lessard heard her young dog Poet shrieking in pain and knew immediately the Chihuahua-mix rescue would require emergency care.
The uncertainty of how to proceed – and what would await them at their local emergency vet – made an already stressful situation much more difficult for the Barrie, Ont., woman. “The whole thing was just terrifying, honestly,” Lessard said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press.
Poet, an approximately three-year-old dog who was rescued by Lessard through a Texas-based organization 18 months ago, was dashing down the stairs one night last week when she mistimed a jump from three steps up and landed awkwardly on a tile floor, breaking the radius and ulna in her right front leg.