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For Wednesday for Bear cub. He is extremely lame still. I’ve been given more painkillers, but it’s not stopping him limping, so I’m ever more convinced it’s a mechanical injury. He’s very stoic. Trouble is, originally we were looking at the left fore. The very lame is the right,so I’m going to ask for both sides to be done. Wrists are fine, it’s definitely elbow upwards, I think dysplasia, given Zak has HD. I have zero experience of elbow dysplasia, so off to google just in case. If anyone has experience, especially positive outcomes, please tell me, Bear is my absolute baby, velcro dog who prefers me above all others.
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I‘m glad I didn’t have to insist, the practice is only running a skeleton staff. My equine vet-same practice-phoned yesterday wanting to do flu vaxx. The horse has now pitched up extremely lame, so I’ve double dosed him on Danilon. 90% of the time, I can keep him comfortable but the ground is hard currently and he is suffering. Such a dilemma.
 
Just the same as HD really, keep the dog lean, keep all four on the floor, avoid stairs, slippy floors, jumping, on and off furniture, swimming/hydro and sand work will help.
What age is he? I see dogs which I know to have borderline (still acceptable) scores start to show signs of wear and tear around 5ish, usually landings over the jump become very heavy.
Any dogs I know who have had the Medium or Severe diagnosis just get retired straight away.
They tend to be fine in youth and as mentioned, start to show signs in middle age. That's the danger when dogs aren't screened young, they can be damaging themselves without anyone knowing it.
Right now I know two dogs with medium ED, one seems fine, she is about 4 or five, the other is 7 and he is fine but does not do anything high impact.
 
He’s nearly 10, very lean, very fit. Very excitable! No stairs allowed, strict lead walk round the green outside on a harness currently. The trouble with him is that he motorbikes if off lead. He lives to search/do snifferdog impression, which is quite gentle, otherwise he zooms if allowed to free run. There’ll be no more of that, obviously. ? We used textured flooring in the lounge and kitchen very deliberately.
 
Is it possible that it could be arthritis?
Whatever it is, some of the dogs, and 1 cat, which I had before the ones I have now, developed various skeleton related problems with age, worn out areas, extra bone growths, one had HD, and they all responded very well to acupuncture.

They don't do that at my regular veterinarian clinic, so we got referred to the big veterinarian hospital. Actually, Selma the cat was only the second cat they had tried giving acupuncture to. Selma had stopped climbing the cat trees, but when we had to start to lift her up to her food bowl (we feed the cats out of the dogs reach), we realised she hadn't only gotten old and lazy, took her to the veterinarian, and found out she had developed some extra bone growths in her back.

They were a bit reluctant to give Selma acupuncture, apparently it hadn't gone that well with the first cat (:eek:), but it had helped my dogs so much that I persuaded them to try again. Selma was a perfect patient, and laid still with needles in two rows along her back, and a few in other places.
In the evening after her first session, Selma climbed straight up to the very top of our floor to ceiling cat tree. She hadn't been up there for over a year.

The dogs were helped by their acupuncture as well, but they didn't show it off quite as demonstratively as Selma did.

Hope it goes as well as possible at the veterinarians.
 
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