A couple issued a warning after they were left with a £7,800 vet bill when their dog was paralysed by a ruptured disc - while playing fetch. Chaps, a seven-year-old Australian cattle dog, was playing fetch with her owners when the tragedy struck.
Chaps ran before stumbling and sliding across the ground "yelping in considerable pain". Angela Axton, 35, and Bradley May, 33, rushed her to an emergency vet, where an MRI scan showed a herniated disc had pushed into Chaps' spinal cord.
Chaps was temporarily paralyzed in her hind limbs and lost of control of her bladder after pieces of the disc became lodged in her spinal cord. After 48 hours in emergency care, Chaps was released and taken home.
