09/25/2026
We’re all rooting for little Traffic Cone! 🖤🐾
We’ve had the privilege of caring for this sweet girl, and we’re so happy to see her making some progress. Now she needs a special foster home where she can continue getting the extra attention and daily rehab she needs.
Please read Knox-Whitley Humane Association’s post below and share to help us find Traffic Cone the right foster home. ❤️
🚧 TRAFFIC CONE UPDATE 🖤
We have an update on our tiny Traffic Cone, and while we still don’t have a definite answer for what’s going on, we do have a little bit of encouraging news.
Her X-rays didn’t show anything significant that would explain what we’re seeing. Traffic Cone is still very wobbly and unsteady in her back legs (something called ataxia) but otherwise, her neurological exam was normal.
She’s eating. She’s drinking. She’s pooping. She’s peeing.
AND… she walked today. 🥹
The vet was able to get her up and walking around on the floor today. She’s still very wobbly, but considering this little girl had progressed to where she was barely using her back legs at all, we will absolutely take that win. 🖤
Right now, there are still a lot of unknowns. This could simply be how Traffic Cone is, she could have suffered a spinal injury before coming to us that is slowly healing, or there could potentially be an infectious cause.
For now, she is staying at the vet for one more night to see if she makes anymore improvements, then the plan is to give her a little more time and recheck her in 1–2 weeks.
But Traffic Cone has also been prescribed something very important:
SWIMMING LESSONS! 🏊🛁
The vet would like her to have approximately 10–15 minutes of supervised water therapy each day to help strengthen and rehabilitate those little back legs. Because she is so tiny, medications like steroids and anti-inflammatories aren’t an option for her right now.
And that means… WE ARE MOST LIKELY GOING TO NEED A FOSTER FOR TRAFFIC CONE.
She needs somewhere she can safely receive her daily rehab and get the extra one-on-one attention she needs while we wait to see how her condition progresses.
If you would be interested in fostering Traffic Cone and helping this tiny lil road hazard get back on all four paws, please fill out her foster app here:
🚧 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0Y-xJVm4vrY2ekNkqwr-2ObWgBW2e4eNu192fbkrSNIlIPA/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Donations toward her continued medical care are also greatly appreciated and can be done by calling Veterinary Care Center on behalf of Knox-Whitley Humane Association/Traffic Cone.
📞 Veterinary Care Center
(606) 268-3848
💲If you’d rather donate to us directly, you can do so via PayPal: PayPal.me/knoxwhitleyhumane
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🚧🖤TRAFFIC CONE’S STORY:
Traffic Cone came to us on September 11th after one of our volunteers found her near their home. At only around 8 weeks old, we have no way of knowing where she came from, how long she had been on her own, or what may have happened to her before she was found.
When she first arrived, we noticed a slight limp. Unfortunately, instead of improving, her condition progressively worsened until she lost the ability to properly use her back legs.
We still don’t know exactly what happened to our little Traffic Cone but for now, she’s eating, she’s comfortable, she’s trying, and today she WALKED. 🖤🚧
