First of all, THANK YOU!!! All of you for your prayers, positive thoughts, kind words and contributions to Lucy’s vet bill fund. I will post much more on this later, but I didn’t want to let another moment go by without expressing my gratitude to every single one of you. The last 24 hours have been horrible, but less so because of you.

Erin and Paige took Lucy to the vet today and they were very pleased with her progress. Her breathing is still labored and her lungs bruised but the doctor was optimistic about her recovery. They were especially inpressed with how well Lucy is walking. The only concern now is that she has been on steroids to bring the swelling down since the accident so the vet is unsure of how injured she really is. Once the steroids wear off (in ten hours or so) they will have a better idea of how difficult it will be for her to breath.

The vet has instructed us to continue to confine Lucy to a crate for at least five more days to keep her from causing herself further injury and to bring her back in at the first sign of distress or in a few days even if she seems fine. She isn’t out of the woods yet but things look pretty good right now.

Several people have asked how the accident happened. We really don’t know for sure as Paige and Erin were both out when she was hit. The neighbor next door witnessed the accident and ran outside to try help Lucy, but wouldn’t let the neighbor get close. The puppy ran to the back of our property. The neighbor left a note on my car explaining that Lucy had been hit which Paige found when she returned home from the post office. Paige immediately scooped Lucy up and headed to the vet’s office, where Erin met her shortly.

Lucy has never even come close to escaping the fence near the front of the property and we are all baffled by what drew her there. She will occasionally climb through the fence to follow one of us, but we’ve been working very hard to break her of this habit and she seemed to understand that she was expected to stay with her flock. I don’t know if she was chasing something- an animals or whatever- but we clearly need to do more to prevent this happing again and today, Paige and Erin set up perma net fencing around the pasture Lucy and Sabine are in.

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