Hello and thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I'll be researching here for the next few days. I have a 8 month old (dob 1/20/9) male GSD that...
Hi Bruno, Hips are a crap shoot. Selecting a breeder who uses OFA certified parents does not make you a dummy. It tells me that you did a lot of research...
Bleu is my now almost 8 months old and a Weimaraner. He was Dx. at 4 months with Hip Dysplasia. I took him to an ortho specialist in San Antonio and they...
Hi Suzie, Sounds like Bleu is doing very well! Those crate escapes do happen and it's a horrible feeling for us because we just have no way of knowing whether...
Thanks for taking time to post your experiences and links Suzette and Anka. I'm glad to hear Bleu and Leo are doing good. That Leo is a talented guy, my mutt...
This thread has been an excellent read, and the OP has never returned to share her decision. Thanks to everyone for their feedback. Reading this really puts...
Stacey, How is Mac doing with confinement? Is he from working lines? My dog "was" in Schutzhund trainging, and is very high drive, and I'm not sure how well he...
... Depends. Most of the time, yes. He walks normally at a steady walking-on-lead pace. When he races the other dogs up the hill he sometimes bunny hops, it...
... At 8 months your little guy shouldn't be doing much more than working the puppy tug in SchH and doing some limited obedience exercises. Anything beyond...
... We used Tramadol as a pain reliever. Tramadol has some narcotic properties and we used it for the 1st 10 days post-op. We both were able to arrange our...
Since ya'all have experience with this, what questions would you recommend I ask a surgeon at MU during his evaluation of my dog for TOP surgery? Thanks for...
Some of the questions we asked our surgeon: How many of these surgeries has he done? Is he tracking his former patients? If so, how old is his oldest patient ...
Thanks for your help, Anka. There are not enough hours in the day for me to do the researcvh I need to get done, I appreciate you taking time out of yours to...
Hi there~ My dog, Jersey, just passed his 8 week eval after his TPO and everything looks fantastic. Some questions to ask that were beneficial for me, in...
Hello Vanessa, I am in the same boat as you, and found this group to be very helpful. I found a good read at the CannineHD group titled Long-term outcome of...
She runs extremely well. Her muscles have grown. She runs, jumps, and tussles with her brother. To watch her you'd never know she had anything wrong with her....
During the lengthy search for TPO surgery for Bleu my Weimar I found a site called www.mypoordog.com it is owners histories with their dogs including TPO, FHO,...
Thanks Jack. Our golden, Jersey, already had a TPO on his right him but his left is too far gone so the only options are hip replacement and FHO. Our ortho...
I don't know if having one hip with a TPO and one with a FHO makes a difference in the gait. Did you get a reason why he/she feels the gait would be off.. and...
Because of the cutting off of the ball and tying the muscle around it, the gait is said to be off because it's missing the ball. One leg will/could be...
Hi - My working Kelpie was admitted to have TPO on his left hip at 8.5 months (which is how I came to find this group - thanks for the info so far ... The...
As a last resort my GSD was on both Acepromazine and Tramadol. The Ace alone did nothing for him. He's pretty high drive and has a very high pain tolerance so...
All I can say is wow ... Dieter got a clean bill of health from his Eval! The xrays at MU were much clearer than those at my vet ... and his hips looked good. ...
Happy, happy! X-rays don't always tell the full story. We must look at the whole dog and the symptoms s/he presents, not just radiographs which can vary ...
There's really no reason to rush into surgery on the second hip. Jersey may do fine with only one hip repaired. FHO or hip replacement surgery, if needed,...
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