DJ's left nut |
03-06-2012 09:45 AM |
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Originally Posted by Dayze
(Post 8421439)
I hear ya there.
my lab wasn't putting pressure on her hind leg; vet suspected a partially torn ACL/MCL (I can't recall). anyway,.....without doing x-rays etc, the bill was still dang $150 for meds, and the visit etc. eeesh. Sucked even more by her telling us "just try to keep her off it; see if it'll heal on it's own".
lol.
although the alternative was to have surgery to repair it.
Year later, my lab runs around and plays like nothing ever happened.
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Sometimes they're just being big pussies.
Mine used to pick up a limp all the time, generally every 6 weeks, when he was a puppy. We'd take him to the vet, they'd give us some deramax and we'd kennel rest him for a week. It got to be routine enough that we just asked for a bunch of pills to give him and avoid the vet visit.
After about 9 months of that, we stopped giving him the deramax, put him in his kennel for about 48 hours (walked him on leash only) and let it 'disappear'. Well after about 3 months of that he either toughened up or his joints miraculously became stronger because he hasn't picked up that limp in 6 years now.
Granted, yours may have actually been injured, but it never ceases to amaze me what a dog will do for attention if it's even a little bit neurotic.
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