Since my last post we’ve managed to stabilize the injury situation. Molly, in spite of being the old lady at almost 7, turned out to in better shape and is coming back from her strained shoulders nicely. She should be 100% by March. Riker, on the other hand, turned out to have a more serious problem. We started to fear a ligament tear in his knee, so we got him in for x-rays. The vet played it very cool at the initial visit, but it was clear that’s what he was thinking, too. In fact, to everyone’s surprise (including the vet, who took extra x-rays to make sure) Riker’s knees and rear joints were fine. That lead to the conclusion that  he had a bad groin pull, instead of a knee injury. Let me tell you, we were overjoyed to have that diagnosis. Recovery will be slow, but now after a couple of weeks of complete rest (yes, he IS going stir crazy) he is starting to put full weight on it and the limp is going away.