They said he was going to die. Two vets agreed that the reason old Oscar’s legs had stopped working was that his little heart could no longer pump enough blood to them. 

It seemed odd then that his feet were still warm so a trip to another vet and it was suggested that he might have coonhound paralysis. A condition where dogs become paralyzed but only for a couple of months.

That was Late October 2014 and sure enough, after two months of treating him as a baby, walking him in a pram and exercising his legs for him on a daily basis he began walking just before Christmas.

The vet then suggested that having come through the paralysis that it had taken a toll on his body and that he would likely not last more than a week or two. 

But as of July 2015 he is now 13 and still with us and as active (well almost for an old boy) as ever and twice as bossy. 

I think Oscar’s plan is to live forever. So far so good.