Morning BPO'ers!
First question- we had friends over with their 3 year old Pyr Jackson last night, and I noticed that when Jackson walked, I could hear his ankles clicking, I think on his back two legs. It was the definite sound of joints clicking, I'm pretty sure from his ankles. I was concerned (at first I thought it was coming from Tucker) and mentioned it to Jackson's mom and she just said "oh yeah, that happens sometimes, since he was little." and didn't seem worried at all. Now, I didn't hear the noise EVERY time Jackson was walking around, but I would say it was about 50% of the time he was in motion.
Any idea what this could be caused from? Should his mom be more worried and take him to the vet? I don't think Jackson is hurting at all, but to me, joints clicking like that can't be good.
2nd question: hubby and I had a "discussion" yesterday after Jackson and his parents left, on the topic of when should you stop calling your puppy a puppy and start calling him a dog? Jackson's parents still refer to him as "our puppy Jackson", and yet Jackson is 3 years old. I still call Tucker our puppy, because he's only 10 months, but hubby calls him our dog, because of his size.
Such a silly question, I know, but I'm curious as to others opinions.
I figure I'd call Tucker a puppy till he was at least 1 year old, and I do think its odd they call Jackson a puppy at the age of 3 years, but I also think hubby is wrong to call Tucker a "dog" already.
Hmmm. Thanks for your input as always.