Did something happen to my dog?

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Hi Folks,
I haven't come to visit in a long while and I apologize. I tend to seek help from Yi when faced with big, confusing, important stuff I have no answers to and cannot get answers in a more conventional, direct, "ask the person" way.
Sorry, this will be a bit long, I need to explain the context.

Context: I have a rescue dog whose first 5 or so years of life were spent on the streets, suffering violence from 2 and 4 paws, hunger and all things horrible. When he finally got adopted by a couple, he spoiled him instead of educating him, she beat him with her crutches. After a while he got sick of that and bit her foot (not through the skin bit, but it still hurts). Out the door he went, luckily back to the association that had rescued him in the first place but on the fast track to getting put to sleep. I had just lost "the dog of my life", wasn't looking to adopt, still don't know how his picture showed up on my PC screen, and off I went to save him from the deadly shot. I have spent 3 years working on him to reeducated him and he's totally transformed. Only a few deep seated fears remain, but he settles back down quickly when he goes into an over-reaction emotional overload. Boarding him when I have a business trip or some such (vacation? what's that?) is a challenge: I refuse to put him in a classic kennel with cages, that would traumatize him immediately; family kennels where several dogs live together freely in a home doesn't work either as he is reactive to other dogs and it takes him a long time to make friends. So I have to find a person or couple with no other dogs willing to take him. That is tough, and I searched high and low for months to find one. Found one: two women who had had a dog, he passed, they love dogs, don't want to adopt another for now.

Initial visit: went to meet them and for my dog to meet them, check the house and the property (all fenced), only one dog kept at a time, my dog greeted her with a big slurp, all good.

The stay: He stayed there 4 nights. Apparently all went well, he didn't do anything stupid, no accidents (he's actually a super easy dog to live with), she is willing to take him again, yay, I think, my problem is at last solved after 3 years.

I go pick him up with a friend who is his favorite bipede outside me. Normally, he rushes to us, jumps up, puts his front paws on our thighs and it's an intense meet and greet and slurp. Here, he walked over to us, no jumping up. He seemed otherwise perfectly normal. We lifted him to put him in my friend's truck (too high to jump) and he was OK with that.

But when I brought him home, all of a sudden I notice he cannot manage a step or the stairs (there are none at the boarder's). I try to help him up, for the first time ever he screamed in pain and bit my finger. His lower back/rear is clearly blocked and he can't do all movements normally (like he can't scratch the earth with his back paws after pooping!). He'd blocked his back once before with me, his back paw slipping when going up the steps, but never ever this badly. As a consequence perhaps, instead of lunging for his food, he goes to his bowl hesistatingly. And most significant, normally he would almost open his own mouth to take his twice daily thyroid pill and now I have to force his mouth open AND be careful as it does seem my finger might stay in his mouth in the process. He *seems*, not sure about that, afraid of my hand for a split second when I go pet him.

He has been boarded before, there is always a day or two of adaptation when he comes home, which is normal, usually lying behind the front door, but nothing of this sort.

He can throw his back out on his own -- slipping on tiles, jumping off something not quite the right way. But all these different manifestations together make me ask "what happened to my dog at the lady's place?"

I can't call to ask: if she did something not nice, she won't say; if she did nothing at all, she'll be rightly offended and never take him again. I have a hard time imagining they'd have mistreated him. But I do have a lingering doubt that is eating at me and make me wonder whether I should entrust him to them again (I have other business trips down the pike with no other options at this point..) You understand my conundrum.

So Yi said 3.1 to 8 (seeking union -- where do you belong, Yeah, Yi, that IS the question, but it doesn't answer mine of what happened there!)

3 - difficult beginnings.

Line 1​

'Encircled by stones. The property is all fenced. I doubt they left him in the garage, they came out of the house with him, and all his stuff was in their living space. Or am I being too literal?
Fruitful to settle with constancy,
Fruitful to establish feudal lords.'
These two lines confuse me. The constancy here would be using these two ladies as regular keepers (I had been looking for a regular solution, so there would be continuity and kind of like a second home where he'd be happy and safe).

I need a psychic to tell me what happened - if anything at all - at that place and if I should keep that option open to board him there again!

Thank you so much for your help

 

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A highly intuitive, not to say psychic, friend of mine, thinks he might have fallen backwards. But not info on how or why and no certainty, just her gut, which tends to be spot on.

 

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Just asked a follow up question : "What would be the effet of asking the lady if my dog fell"
Response: 7.2,3,5 to 39
I just get the feeling she'd get offended and never take him again.
What do you think?

 

[Liselle]

Oh dear, no one responded to this.

After all of this time I hope the problem has straightened out. But if not, my reaction to the "What happened?" question is that "encircled by stones" might mean he did throw his back out, that whatever bones are involved (vertebrae? hip bones?) are the stones. Those bones are always there but they don't normally feel like stones, if you see what I mean. But when something has gone wrong they do. A worse version of having a stone in your shoe.

I think 8 might point in the direction of it happened spontaneously or in the course of your dog being exuberent and playful. 8 is about joining the stream willingly, jumping right in, following one's affinities. It's not coercion. There is the warning about being late, but in this situation I wonder if it might mean he was in a rush to play or something.

Obviously all of that's a guess.

Not sure about the second question. Maybe it's also a moot point by now. Asking if he fell isn't the same as asking what she did to him, but I understand your hesitancy. If they think he's prone to getting hurt / hurting himself, there's a risk they might not want to take him again.

On the other hand, looking on the brighter side, it might be unfair not to let them know something like this if they keep him again.

The Army, Limping. The Army in the context of obstacles, needing to turn around, go a different direction, get some help. Don't know what to make of that. It could even describe a sensible army. After all an army probably wouldn't be successful if it just kept barrelling on in the same way, no matter what was in its path.

Line 2 - the general is right there with the troops, willing and able to respond to orders from the king, even if the orders keep changing.

Line 3 - what are the corpses - all I can think of is maybe your assumption they'd be offended or feel accused, but I'm really not sure about that.

Line 5 - more corpses. It also says, "The fields have game. Fruitful to speak of capture: No mistake." As an answer to "What if I call and ask this question?," that actually seems pretty encouraging.

"When the elder son leads the army,
And younger son carts corpses:
Constancy, pitfall."

I've seen people say this means everyone sticking to their pre-determined roles, and how sometimes that's not effective. In this case maybe again it could be about you assuming what will happen if you ask. Again I'm not sure.

If I had to lean one way or the other, I think it might be okay to call and ask. They might be perfectly receptive to getting in there with the troops, doing what's needed like the general in line 2. The changing orders might be something like, "My dog's prone to throwing his back out, here's some guidance about that..." (if there is any guidance, I have no idea).

From your posts you seem like someone who'd be able to have discussions like this in a way that's about solving problems, not accusing anyone, but I don't know either you or the couple, so.