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My dog is struggling to stand her back legs keep collapsing from under her, I’m unable to find a local vets that is open

Hello - I'm sorry to hear that and can understand how concerned you must be.  Are you in the UK?  Here, at the moment, general practice vets are obliged to provide advice and treatment for their patients 24/7 - ie outside normal office hours.  Many do this by asking local emergency hospitals to see their cases at these times, giving the day vets a much needed rest.  We would reccommend calling the phone number of your usual clinic and listening to their answerphone message all the way through for instructions as to how to access out-of-hours care.  There might also be details of their out of hours provision on their website.  It sounds as though your dog might benefit from an emergency appointment.   I am worried that your dog could be in pain, suffering from neurological signs or even weakness eg from lack of circulation around the body or dehydration.   Contacting the out of hours vet is the first step to getting this sorted out.

I'm afraid that you may have been looking for more specific advice, for example, 'Try giving X.'  One really good reason that we don't do this, is that these symptoms could be a problem with the joints, with the heart or the kidneys or even a splenic bleed.  The treatments for these conditions are miles apart from one another; there is a high risk that I would give you inappropriate instructions and prolong your dogs' illness if not make her worse.  However, your vets will be able to do tests in order to localise the problem.  Wishing you both the best of luck X.

I'm afraid that you may have been looking for more specific advice, for example, 'Try giving X.'  One really good reason that we don't do this, is that these symptoms could be a problem with the joints, with the heart or the kidneys or even a splenic bleed.  The treatments for these conditions are miles apart from one another; there is a high risk that I would give you inappropriate instructions and prolong your dogs' illness if not make her worse.  However, your vets will be able to do tests in order to localise the problem.  Wishing you both the best of luck

I really appreciate your response, I have located an animal A&E opening at 7pm, Thank you for your advice.

hey, bren What happened to the dog in the end? is there any diagnosis or have all the problems disappeared?