Anybody successfully treated their dog's patellar luxation without surgery?
I am quite sure Dorie has a luxating patella. She recently injured her back leg when she ran after a squeaky toy and she continues to injure herself when walking down the stairs and running (I'm trying to keep her from doing that). She yelps and refuses to put weight on that leg until I massage it and then it's almost like it never happened. The last few times I've massaged her leg I felt the muscle pop back into place.
Our Pom had it, we also had to massage her leg and then she was fine. She lived to 18 about! it never seemed to bother her
I've read that exercising with sit-to-stands and walking uphill to strengthen the muscles in the back legs can help. Her food already has glucosamine in it. Anything else I can do?
I would be worried about sit-stand being too much. There are exercises where you have a pole or something similar just high enough so they pick up their feet. Or you can do like for the horses, poles on the ground, it might be less stress on the joints then bending the knees all the way, definitely less painful/stressful on mine
Swimming would be great, if it is possible
Anyone on here deal with a reactive dog?
Pepsi is reactive and making progress slowly
Twiggy is too but I haven't really worked on it for a long time now
Fanta needed a lot of neutral training, she still struggles with other dogs
Pikelet is Pikelet........
any tips for training them to be neutral again?
Maybe that the being neutral stays.
Months and months of hard work just seemed to be washed away.
Reactivity is very complicated, as much detail as you can give me the better! Neutral walks are good! make sure you are at just the right distance
It is early in the morning right now so I might think of more things later!
