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It was a good visit. Im glad I went. The doc looked at Sadies XRays and said she is mild. GOOD. He did a stress test and said she was good. He put his arm under her back hip and held her up and put stress on her hip joints and she did not have any ouchiness. He said, Like you said Christie, to do what I am going to do with her, and not hold back ,and see how she goes over time. Nothing is needed now. He said how she is physically will show more than xrays over time, she could show bad arthritis but be great.

What they do now is for a lighter dog, cut off the ball of the bone and leave it, the muscle and tendons will take over. That also depends on what the dogs job is too. For larger dogs and harder working dogs they replace the ball joint.

So all is well in Sadieville.

Waiting for the vet I know there is someone out there ! If I stare hard and long enough, the door will open !

sounds like the appt went well. glad to hear that no surgery is needed as of yet.

really cute pics of the girls waiting for the vet.

Good news!!!

That's good. Have had dogs worse than that and they did fine for a long time. My Laekenois has Moderate, and he alternates between laying on a pillow and running around the back yard. Don't tell the bad guys that he has bad hips and they'll never know.

And how deep was your sigh of relief? So glad to hear it wasn't worse.

I am so glad to hear it Lisa. I'm not gonna lie, I cringed when I saw the picture only because I was thinking bone on bone pain. I am so glad that she gets to live a normal life and we'll see what happens.

I wonder if he was thinking "mild" on an OFA ranking system? They looked kinda worse than that to me - but I haven't seen THAT many.

Did Thalie come along for moral support?

Here's hoping for no issues now or in the future. If anything does come up, I think she would do fine with the FHO (procedure that you described). She's not gonna be working too hard, and she's a petite girl (wish I was ).

Thanks all. Her work wont be hard, I didnt plan on doing heavy duty stuff with her like I did with Thalie. She is our best friend, thats all she has to do. I still will try the hearding and SAR and see how she does. The vet did say her weight is good and she has a lean build, so she isnt a huge DS dealing with this. She has learned what hurts and how to compensate. When she plays hard with Thalie its not for that long anymore or they dont play as hard.

Since I cant peel Thalie away from me, sue usually does come everywhere

I do feel good about the future with her and what the options are if she does go down hill. Heck, Ill build her a cart if I have to and get a Rottweiler to pull her around.

I am glad to hear that it wasn't as bad as thought.

When I was researching arthritic pain relief, I came across this website http://faunasauna.com/faunasaunaproducts-2.aspx. I remember my grandma using a red light lamp to relief the pain in her shoulder. The red light frequency helps with the pain, naturally.

ohhh, they look nice ! I would have to get one for both though

Schlussdibusti wrote:I am glad to hear that it wasn't as bad as thought.

When I was researching arthritic pain relief, I came across this website http://faunasauna.com/faunasaunaproducts-2.aspx. I remember my grandma using a red light lamp to relief the pain in her shoulder. The red light frequency helps with the pain, naturally.

I bought a very inexpensive hand held massager (for humans) at Walmarts that has an infrared heat/massage setting. The head /neck thing swivels to get the right angles for holding it. Also has a bunch of snap on heads to massage yourself with. About a 18" long and easy to use. I think it was around $25.00. We used it on one of my daughter's old Boxers and she loved it, tho it took her a few minutes to get use to the vibration, after that she would assume the position every time we got it out of the box. (On the sofa, head on a pillow, leg extended and waiting for her treatment) I think Sadie would love one!

Just wondering if your Vet said anything about Adequan injections to help delay arthritic changes in the joint?
http://adequancanine.us/

Chris, you are so full of useful and interesting info!! I love those infrared beds.

That sounds good for Sadie! yay!

alspyce wrote:Just wondering if your Vet said anything about Adequan injections to help delay arthritic changes in the joint?
http://adequancanine.us/

No, I was going to ask, I had my horse injected and it did wonders for him. I could always call them, it was a super nice office!

I be Sadie, and Thalie would love the massager. Thalie would like it after a long mountain bike ride !

Maybe you could teach them to massage each other

Glad to hear the news about Sadie!

So glad the news turned out to be decent!

Sugars Mom wrote:Maybe you could teach them to massage each other

Glad to hear the news about Sadie!

Thanks !

Glad everything went well, beautiful pictures

Thanks!