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pancake · 01-15-2013, 07:13 PM

is playing fetch on grass too strenuous for a puppy at 5.2 months old? I might just be imagining something but I kind of feel like she bunny hops when she runs. I'm not sure if it's normal or not.. I may be just paranoid because my other 10 year old dog has really bad hip and DM issues where she can barely stand up.

Does anyone have a puppy that is 5 months old or younger (or around that age) that may have a video clip of what HD would look like? I play ball, she chases a RC car and we also play tug. Need to burn the energy somehow.. but it's all on grass. She used to jump down from the curb but I no longer let her do that because I've since learned that jumping down is very very hard on dogs and this was shown in police K9s that would jump down off of the SUVs like 50 times a day and developed serious issues.

01-15-2013, 07:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
pancake Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 178	play ball with 5 month old puppy and hip dysplasia is playing fetch on grass too strenuous for a puppy at 5.2 months old? I might just be imagining something but I kind of feel like she bunny hops when she runs. I'm not sure if it's normal or not.. I may be just paranoid because my other 10 year old dog has really bad hip and DM issues where she can barely stand up. Does anyone have a puppy that is 5 months old or younger (or around that age) that may have a video clip of what HD would look like? I play ball, she chases a RC car and we also play tug. Need to burn the energy somehow.. but it's all on grass. She used to jump down from the curb but I no longer let her do that because I've since learned that jumping down is very very hard on dogs and this was shown in police K9s that would jump down off of the SUVs like 50 times a day and developed serious issues.