Well I took Dottie to see the vet I've been working with, and
I also took Squirtle for comparison.

After watching Dottie walk, it really didn't seem right, her gait seemed off, especially compared to Squirtle.

Dr. Chris watched both of them walk and quickly confirmed that I wasn't crazy, that Dottie wasn't moving her right back leg as much as her left back leg and she wasn't lifting herself off the ground as much as Squirtle was.

So we did X-rays to check for egg binding and bone density.
There were no eggs and her bone density seemed fine.

Dottie had provided the fecal sample I had been watching for in the car, so the vet did a smear and a float. The only thing he saw were these perfectly round eggs which we determined to be from coccidia.

He then stuck a needle into her bladder and extracted some urine and put some directly on a microscope slide and spun the rest in a centrifuge. He saw no sign of hexamita or any other abnormalities, although if she had hexamita it had likely been cleaned up by the medication.

So he sent me home with some Albon to treat the coccidia and he's going to call someone he knows at our vet school to see if
has any ideas what could be affecting her leg function, if not hexamita.

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