edfrompa  Offline
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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: New dog on the block. |
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Greetings from across the pond. My name is Ed, I own two dogs. One is golden retreiver, the other a yellow lab. Russell is the golden, he is eight years old, with a enlarged heart. The vet gave him five years to live. He has outlived the vet. Buddie is the Lab, what a wonderful animal!!!!!!! I took him to another vet because he was having limping problems. Buddie is now ten months old. The vet exray the leg. bad news. buddie has dysplsaia in the both shoulders and elbows. She told me their is nothing than can be done for him. But to excercise him daily and give him glosomin and condrotin which i give him daily. So i will be hanging in there for the time being. That is my dilemma for now. Any words of wisdom would be welcome.
I live in Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Amish country. A great place to live. So that is about all I have for now, I want to thankyou all for having such a wonderful forum on Labs. It is awesome to say the least.
Ed from Pa
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Ed and welcome to LF, good on Russell for outliving the vet!!  , they have a habit of making us look stupid at times
Sorry to hear Buddy has Dysplaysia in his shoulders and elboes, I know there`s a few members whose pups have had ED (Elbows) and have had successful ops on them, maybe she meant that it wasn`t bad enough to warrant an op at the moment?, does Buddy seem happy enough in his daily wanderings or does he show signs of discomfort?.
I`m sure the members here whose dogs have or have had ED will be along shortly to talk to you 
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edfrompa Offline
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thankyou for the reply back Mary, the vet said that it would cost too much to have him operated on. The vet thinks the hips are a problem to.
So now it is a wait and see time. Yes he does have pain in the front limbs, he bites the joints and makes grumbly noises. I have buddie on a temperpedic foam, it is a memory foam. He spends most of his time on that. In the morning he is raring to go, but come around late afternoon he likes to rest.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Hi and welcome to LF Sorry to hear that Buddy has dysplasia  There is alot of it about   unfortunately 
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Awww poor lad, I`m assuming you don`t have him insured?, its something a lot of people do here and that then pays for any treatment the dog may need although of course you do hope not to use it. I don`t know if there is dog insurance in the US, but it`d be too late for Buddy now cos the vet already has a record of his condition.
Does he like swimming?, most Labs do and if you can get Buddy to swim that should help build his muscles up and strengthen his legs including his hips, like us its good all round exercise and impact free
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