She's not in a wheelchair, Hero, she just walks with a very pronounced limp. I am one of only two people allowed to affectionately refer to her as Gimpy. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif She knows I mean nothing by it because she's one of my favorite people in the world. I've been telling her for over a decade now she isn't handicapped....she just walks funny. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
As far as my last Dane is concerned there's nothing to be "done" with her. I had to put her to sleep last year because her health was increasingly poor due to age. Danes don't live near so long as small spaniels or terriers or the like where it isn't at all uncommon for them to live to be like 14 or 15 or even older. The average life expectancy for a Great Dane is between 8 and 10 years. JoAnn (an abbreviation from her registered name and consequently what we normally called her) was 10 yrs, 6months old so for a dog in general she wasn't terribly old but for a Great Dane she was old.
The 28-day quarantine consists of being locked in a kennel and isolated from pretty much everything and everyone to ensure that the animal isn't bringing some form of communicable disease into the country. Pretty heartless if you ask me though I do understand why they do it.