First of all thank you to everyone who set up and contributed to this site. The links are great and I'm still reading through the posts. Please take a quick...
Zephan, This is only my personal opinion, but FHO requires that a dog be kept lean for life. You are counting on scar tissue to support the dog's weight. As...
Zephan, Sounds like you are exploring all options and have alot of information. The decision must ultimately be yours. I would like to add, however, that...
Looking for some advice on what I should decide to do with my 10 month old Lab.. She started to limp and had trouble getting up from a lying position after...
personally, I would do the better hip now and then wait and see... TPO is basically a corrective surgery and you could end up with one great side and not need...
Thanks Cindy and Sally for the quick responses! I didn't know the FHO requirement to keep Shadow lean. I know this would be good for him, but I already know it...
Yes I have, Nikko was 8 months old when he was diagnosed... the surgeon told us that we could just do the one side and that would give him one good hip, but...
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I have a miniature Australian Shepherd, although he is on the large side, so more a standard size... His first side went great, the second one we had a rare...
- I have a 6 month old St. Bernard that had his first hip done on 12- 14. The first few days I thought there was no way I would be able to do this again. He...
... He cried and whinned for 72 hours straight. ==================================== Did he by any chance have a pain patch on during those 72 hours? Many ...
my GSD had a TPO on her worse hip (which was not so bad as to be a bad TPO candidate)when she was eight months old. she is nearly five now, and her other hip...
He didn't have a patch on him. He was given Tramadol 150mg every 8 hours and Dermaxx 75mg once a day. They said the reason he was acting like this was because...
just as with people, pain tolerance in dogs differs. i have read of many dogs crying and being miserable for many days after TPO. so i expected it with morgan,...
Thanks for the info. She is having surgery on 1/10/08. I talked to my regular vet and he said the same thing. Most dogs do well with having the one hip done....
i kind of put it into two stages -- the recovery and the rehab. the recovery -- those six long weeks during which she was on total activity restriction -- was...
sheesh. i just re-read my last post. i haven't made so many typos in one piece of writing since i was seven. that's what comes of trying to talk with my...
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Zephan, I looked at your photos. Cute Cavaliers. Shadow looks quite a bit taller than Maggie, so maybe he's not as overweight as you think. Can you feel his...
Gracie is crate trained, so she will spend alot of time in the crate in our family room. I will have to block off the couches because she love to lay there...
the couch was an issue with morgan, too. i kept her fenced into our very small (new york city style) kitchen in order to keep her away from it. when she was in...
I have a 7 month old Saint, Granite, who is into his 5th week of his first hip and I just had a few questions. He has been pretty much confined now for 5...
Hi, I remember when it was time for my dogs 2nd hip. He hadn't even lay down on the first side yet and still limped. I didn't know how on earth he was going to...
Hi Hang in there. It has been 1.5 years now since Annie's bi-lateral TPOs. She is also a giant breed (Shiloh Shepherd). She was very sore and stiff on her...
I have a 2 year old VERY active lab that had bilateral TPOs done 6 weeks apart. I had a VERY difficult time keeping him quiet, but it was worth every minute. I...
my GSD morgan is nearly five, and it has been over four years since her right side TPO. we observed the restrictions to the letter, and, yes, it was a hard six...
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