My dog, Yuki, is a female rough tri collie who is one year old.
In May, she was running around in the backyard and she hurt her back right leg somehow. No one had actually seen the incident occur.
Later on that day, Yuki began to act strangely. She would jump up on things and put her front paws up on the dryer or kitchen counter. We learned later that she was doing this to lessen the pain on her leg.
For two months, Yuki limped. We couldn't take her for walks. We went to the vet and he took an x-ray of her leg and saw something that looked like the beginning of hip displacia. But he said it might also be a hip fracture. He told us we would have to wait and see because it was too early to do surgery.
The strange thing is, hip displacia is a genetic disease and Yuki's family line has no history of that. Collies rarely get this disease. But there is also environmental factor for it. And we have wood floors inside which are very bad for her legs.
I don't know what to do. Help!
2007-07-30
06:41:45
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Bella Swan
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