Hi,
We have just come out the vets and im in tears. My puppys been limping a while, favouring his left leg, we were worried it might be elbow dysplasia. Vet couple months ago said it was panosteitis.
Today we were at the ortho vet, just got out with some crappy news. He started saying theh found many wrong things with Joey.
1.- he found in between his neck and spine area (sorry j dont know the fancy doctor words) some sort of calcification. Ge said make sure he is balanced fed (he is on raw and i thought i was feeding balanced- 30 percent raw meaty bones, 10 percent organs, rest is muscle meat. I am at a loss at the minute as what to do.
He said they will need to keep an eye on it and if it gets bigger they will need to remove it.
2- we thought it was the left elbow but turns out its all of his front joints that is somehow affected. Right elbow seems alright but left elbows, its coronoid process he said does not look right. They did a ct scan and got a fluid of the joints, he said his right shoulders fluid is a bit off and he needs to further investigate.
He wanted to do arthoscopy but as couple of joints are affected he did not it. We are booked for the beginning of october to do the arthoscopy, the he said that if his cartilage looks alright, he can do a surgery for the coronoid process and said if the cartilage is in a bad shape he will discuss that then.
Anyone had couple of issues at the same time like this?
Especially never heard of the calcification.
He said keep him on 15 mins walks on lead only. And if we are lucky and he has the
Coronoid surgery only, even then we are looking for months! Of healing process.
Does this mean my dog will never be able to be a normal dog again doing fun dog things? I feel so sorry and cant describe. He is high drive as well. Im lost.
Have two dogs and he said dont ever put them together if they are jumping at each other
We have just come out the vets and im in tears. My puppys been limping a while, favouring his left leg, we were worried it might be elbow dysplasia. Vet couple months ago said it was panosteitis.
Today we were at the ortho vet, just got out with some crappy news. He started saying theh found many wrong things with Joey.
1.- he found in between his neck and spine area (sorry j dont know the fancy doctor words) some sort of calcification. Ge said make sure he is balanced fed (he is on raw and i thought i was feeding balanced- 30 percent raw meaty bones, 10 percent organs, rest is muscle meat. I am at a loss at the minute as what to do.
He said they will need to keep an eye on it and if it gets bigger they will need to remove it.
2- we thought it was the left elbow but turns out its all of his front joints that is somehow affected. Right elbow seems alright but left elbows, its coronoid process he said does not look right. They did a ct scan and got a fluid of the joints, he said his right shoulders fluid is a bit off and he needs to further investigate.
He wanted to do arthoscopy but as couple of joints are affected he did not it. We are booked for the beginning of october to do the arthoscopy, the he said that if his cartilage looks alright, he can do a surgery for the coronoid process and said if the cartilage is in a bad shape he will discuss that then.
Anyone had couple of issues at the same time like this?
Especially never heard of the calcification.
He said keep him on 15 mins walks on lead only. And if we are lucky and he has the
Coronoid surgery only, even then we are looking for months! Of healing process.
Does this mean my dog will never be able to be a normal dog again doing fun dog things? I feel so sorry and cant describe. He is high drive as well. Im lost.
Have two dogs and he said dont ever put them together if they are jumping at each other