Just wanted to get some feedback from more experienced handlers here.
Lexi is just shy of 5 months old.
When she is at a trot speed (I guess that is the right thing to call it, slower then a run, faster then a walk, like what I would call a jog for a human) she tends to occasionally limp her back right leg.
Sometimes even to where it comes up at the same speed as the back left almost like a hop.
What will happen is I will throw the ball and she will run after it full speed, goes right for it, no limp, nothing. When she comes back she usually does at this trot speed and I notice this limp as described above.
She doesn't whine or wince when doing it and you can feel up and down her leg and squeeze and get no reaction. I know she will stop playing when she is tired because she will take her ball and lay in the shade, so again if this was hurting her I would think she would stop, but she will run after it right again.
Last time I was at the vet (a few weeks ago) I mentioned it and the vet did a physical exam and said that she doesn't feel any deformities and that it was probably a sprain or growing pains. The vet told me to just stop running her if she does it. I have done that but it doesn't seem to matter. I have even kept her as subdued as possible (tough with a puppy) where I didn't run her at all for a few days and the issue seems to persist.
Sometimes it can be the first time she runs after the ball that she does it on her way back, sometimes not until her 10th time, sometimes not at all, but I would say more often then not she does it.
I have tried to video it but it is hard to get a good video. You have to be off to the side to really see it on camera and when I throw the ball and bring it back she isn't coming at me from that angle. When my wife throws it she isn't as "excited" and walks back. My wife says it is all in my head and that she doesn't really notice it and thinks I am over reacting.
I know I won't be able to get a vet out to a field to watch her run So we have a vet appointment later this week, I am sure if I bring it up they will want to do X-Rays. What do you guys think?
Got her from a reputable breeder. Both parents (and multiple generations up from them) test clean on the hips.
Lexi is just shy of 5 months old.
When she is at a trot speed (I guess that is the right thing to call it, slower then a run, faster then a walk, like what I would call a jog for a human) she tends to occasionally limp her back right leg.
Sometimes even to where it comes up at the same speed as the back left almost like a hop.
What will happen is I will throw the ball and she will run after it full speed, goes right for it, no limp, nothing. When she comes back she usually does at this trot speed and I notice this limp as described above.
She doesn't whine or wince when doing it and you can feel up and down her leg and squeeze and get no reaction. I know she will stop playing when she is tired because she will take her ball and lay in the shade, so again if this was hurting her I would think she would stop, but she will run after it right again.
Last time I was at the vet (a few weeks ago) I mentioned it and the vet did a physical exam and said that she doesn't feel any deformities and that it was probably a sprain or growing pains. The vet told me to just stop running her if she does it. I have done that but it doesn't seem to matter. I have even kept her as subdued as possible (tough with a puppy) where I didn't run her at all for a few days and the issue seems to persist.
Sometimes it can be the first time she runs after the ball that she does it on her way back, sometimes not until her 10th time, sometimes not at all, but I would say more often then not she does it.
I have tried to video it but it is hard to get a good video. You have to be off to the side to really see it on camera and when I throw the ball and bring it back she isn't coming at me from that angle. When my wife throws it she isn't as "excited" and walks back. My wife says it is all in my head and that she doesn't really notice it and thinks I am over reacting.
I know I won't be able to get a vet out to a field to watch her run So we have a vet appointment later this week, I am sure if I bring it up they will want to do X-Rays. What do you guys think?
Got her from a reputable breeder. Both parents (and multiple generations up from them) test clean on the hips.