Elderly Rottweiler x retriever limping

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wonder if anyone has any advice. My dog is about 8 ish but a rescue so can't be sure. She has been intermittently lame on a front leg occasionally normally after a long walk but after a couple of days it always rights itself and she never seems particularly in pain ie she drinks and eats as normal, wagging. In the last week she has been flagging behind on a walk and sometimes the back end looks a bit uncomfortable but she is still happy in herself. I've just gone to let her out and she is holding on back leg really high and not putting any weight on it she then hopped outside and wet to the toilet and walked back in albeit not very well but weight bearing . She has an odd bandy legged walk anyway but definitely still not right. She's now eating seems as normal trying to steal my dinner .
I had a Rottweiler before that just went off his back legs but I don't remember a slow decline. Just wondering if anyone has any advice?
If she's limping tomorrow I will obviously take her to the vet but just wondered if anyone has any similar experiences. Horrible terrier keeps sitting with her which is unusual too it's normally plucking her like a turkey or growling.
Aged horse is currently lame too think I'm buying shares in the vet.
 
I think you need to make an appt with your vet. It could be serious (or not), but you need it investigated asap.
 
I will take her tomorrow it's just sad they couldn't do anything for the other one at all. She's about 9 stone so she's a huge dog hoping its a strain or something. Last time we went they couldn't find anything wrong.
 
It could be arthritis or a sprain or something else. It's best to know what you are dealing with.
Hope it's nothing serious.
 
Me too I don't think she travels fast enough for a sprain great big lump. It's more odd that the little dog is being nice.
 
I would bring her to the vets and look for an xray.
Its unlikely but rotties are overly prone to bone cancers so would always treat a lame rotty or rottx with a certain degree of suspicion and always hope to be proven paranoid!
arthritis/ligament strain etc are all also possible!but its definately worth getting checked out.
 
She's not keen to get up and go outside now so I've not forced it. I've run my hand down the leg and there's no heat or swelling at all. She's been out at half 9 we get up really early so often she doesn't go again. Just hoping she's better tomorrow. Got a bad feeling about it but she doesn't look uncomfortable. Can't imagine what she's done if it's not more sinister the other one was only 6 when his back end went. Hoping its not that again it was so sad.
 
She's completely fine this morning. She has a very bandy rottie gait at the back but always has. Do I take her to the vet when there's nothing to see? It's so odd?
 
Vet says if she's eating and not whining when she's moving she isn't in pain?? They said wait and see what she does today.
 
Any more news on this? I'd be nagging the vet to look into it more - our dog who succumbed to bone cancer in his hind leg had quite similar symptoms (and didn;' whine etc. when limping, silly trooper that he was), so personally I'd want it fully checked out as early as possible :/
 
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