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Those are a couple big puppies!

Are they trained to use the neighbors yard, the forest, or do you have a diesel powered poop lifter and hauler combo?

Our Corgi also has mild hip dysplasia. She gets 500mg Glucosamine and 400mg Chondroitin Sulfate everyday. We also put her (and our Lab/Coonhound cross) on a diet to get her weight down to optimum. Those measures, and not lifting her up to any height above what she can reach on her own (to reduce impact shock when she jumps down) have reduced her stiffness/limping by something over 95%.

Thanks everyone.

Dwight, the dogs do #2 in the lot next to mine which is vacant, so that's good.

Only down side is that I own that lot and want to put a pond in there. Retraining them to do #2 in a smaller area will take some time.

Dammit you gotta love dogs!

One of my Springers was trained by her previous owner to go potty on the ice plant at the back of his property. (4"-8" tall groundcover that needed zero care or attention).

When I got her, she'd never go potty on the lawn, she'd always have to go in the flower bed, or in the bushes. That made life easier.

But, I can't imagine picking up after a couple small ponies every day! I'd really be hating life when the snow melted.....

Glucosamine Chondroitin is great stuff...and not just for dogs.

It sure helps my big dog's hip ( hip dysplasia is common in big dogs). That plus losing 15 lbs (he was 100 and is now about 85)sure has helped him

We had a Rhodesian Ridgeback that had hip dysplasia so bad he had to have a pectineal myotomy. Probaby didn't spell that right, anyway it is where they go in and cut the big muscle inside the leg to keep it from pulling the ball out of the socket on the hip joint. It worked fairly good for a while. Unlike humans they can also remove the ball off the femur and the hip joint will form a false joint with muscle that is supposed to be pretty effective.

Well, Boone was at the vet to see the joint specialist vet.

The vet says that Boone does indeed have hip dysplasia as is shown in Boone's x-ray below:



The doc says Boone is still growing and puts him at 12-15 mos. old. He says the HD is a 3 out of 5 with 5 being the worst, but says it may get better for a few years as he matures and his joints harden up a bit after he's done growing. But he says he'll be hurting bad there when he gets into his older years. This doc went over options but seem more in favor of seeing how Boone does which was also our opinion.

I'd be curious to hear from some of the docters here (Mardi, are you out there?) or other dog people.

Also, Boone is now 126 lbs.

I had a Springer that was diagnosed with hip displaysia at 2 YO, and lived to be 17. Her's was about the same severity. I first started her on Glucosomine (sp?), watched her weight closely, then gave her one baby aspirin if she seemed in discomfort. As long as I didn't let her run too much, and make any fast turns, she did pretty well. As far as exercise, swimming during the warmer months seemed to be the best.

My big dog Lucky has had that for about 3-4 years and does fine. Keep the weight down and some Glucosamine Chondroitin and don't make them run and jump to much. When he starts to limp much then he gets ibupropiin .