Actually, TG dog isn't well. Richard's wife has a newspaper column in the Daily Express (believe me, I don't read it on a regular basis) and she wrote the whole thing last week about TG. The relevant bits:
The vet lifted TG?s back legs carefully off the ground and she gave a yelp. ?Well, we could take her into surgery and do some X-rays. It?s possible that a fragment of bone has broken off and is pressing on her spinal cord. But I wonder whether it might be an idea to give her some painkillers and see if it settles down first.?....
....Next morning she seemed slightly improved, but exhausted and miserable. She will have to go for X-rays, and she won?t cope well with that.
The next column is out on Tuesday, I think, and despite myself I think I'll probably check to see how the poorly hound is.