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Osteoarthritis in dogs


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Hi all.

 

Our family dog (dalmatian) has been acting strange for the past few months. We have had a lot of upheaval including moving house twice and having a baby. She was not herself and coming upstairs less etc. This came to a head when she growled at our 5 month old baby.

 

We took the dog to the vet who looked her over and noted that her rear hips were causing her pain in certain positions. The vet suspected osteoarthritis and prescribed pain killers for 10 days to see if there was a change in her behaviour.

 

After 2 days of pain killer, she is back to her old self (a horrible feeling that we didn't catch it earlier).

 

We are waiting to go back to the vet to see what the next steps are.

 

Basically, I know nothing about this and want the best for our dog. We are insured and a high vet bill wouldn't put us off any treatment options such as hip replacement.

 

What happens next? Has anyone gone through this? What management options are there? Has anyone had a dog with a hip replacement?

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Do a search on here for yumove as Penelope has said there have been a few threads on it in the dog training section.

 

After reading about it on here we put our old dog on them and they certainly made a difference.

 

How old is your dog? Is she over weight? Hopefully you will get sorted.

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