Poor ole' Joe visiting my Mom.

Another ruptured CCL

Poor ole' Joe resting with another blown knee

In September Joe had his left knee reconstructed. It was an arduous ordeal to get him through the recovery, but after eight weeks he was doing OK.

Saturday night while walking Joe on a lead he saw a cat up the road run into a pipe under a driveway. He began to pull hard on the leash, and then let out a yelp. Instantly he began holding his right hind leg up high and wouldn't let it touch the ground. I knew what had happened. His CCL (like an ACL tendon in a human) had ruptured. 

Once I finally got him home I took Joe to the emergency vet. where they verified what I knew had happened.

Long story short, tomorrow morning Joe goes for reconstructive knee surgery, and we begin another eight weeks of recovery and rehabilitation.

First Snow of 2013 1/18/13

Poor ole' Joe  looking around at the snow.

We had our first snow of 2013 in Winston-Salem, NC last night. The accumulation of snow was only about an inch. I was hoping for enough to ride a mountain bike in. It needs to be a little more than what we received to be good on a mountian bike This was just enough to make the ground messy and the roads icy. Regardless of how much or how little snow we get, it is always exciting when it snows in this part of the United States. 

The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform a popular song titled "Snow". The video below is of them performing the song live in 2006.