{"id":30111,"date":"2025-06-06T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=30111"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:55:08","slug":"sophies-comeback-purdue-veterinary-specialists-help-a-lame-dog-walk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/sophies-comeback-purdue-veterinary-specialists-help-a-lame-dog-walk-again.php","title":{"rendered":"Sophie&#8217;s Comeback: Purdue Veterinary Specialists Help a Lame Dog Walk Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Today our series of articles about animals and their owners who\u2019ve found help and healing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Purdue University Veterinary Hospital<\/a> continues as we share Sophie\u2019s story. This is just one of the heartwarming tributes provided by hospital clients to highlight the vital care and treatment their animal companions received from the hospital\u2019s teams of clinicians, veterinary nurses, staff and students.<\/em><br><br>Veterinarians in the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital gave a paralyzed dog named Sophie a second chance to walk after an Easter morning emergency two years ago.<br><br>Sophie\u2019s owner, Cody White, awoke that holiday to find his dog dragging her hind legs across the floor. He drove Sophie straight to the hospital\u2019s 24 hour emergency room, where specialists diagnosed a spinal disc injury that was compressing her spinal cord.<br><br>Surgeons recommended immediate spinal surgery, explaining that Sophie had about a 50 percent chance of regaining the use of her back legs. White agreed, and the neurology team operated the same day.<br>Recovery was slow. Sophie showed no movement in her lower body for nearly two months. With daily rehabilitation and follow-up visits at Purdue, she progressed from standing with assistance to now happily walking unassisted.<br><br>\u201cPurdue was there to help with any question I had and truly cared about her well-being,\u201d White said. \u201cI got my fur friend back thanks to Purdue and will always recommend the Purdue Veterinary Hospital to anybody with serious concerns about their animals. Boiler up.\u201d<br><br>Today Sophie enjoys walks, play sessions with other dogs, and yard time with White, who praises the hospital\u2019s neuro team for her comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of articles about animals and their owners who\u2019ve found help and healing at the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital continues today as we share Sophie\u2019s story. This story begins two years ago when an Easter morning emergency resulted in Sophie being brought to the hospital where veterinarians in the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service gave the paralyzed dog a second chance to walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27],"tags":[2281,121,300,2284,2247],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hospitals","category-services","tag-client-success","tag-giving","tag-neurology","tag-neurosurgery","tag-purdue-for-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30128,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions\/30128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}