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Medical Conditions & Diseases / Knee Arthritis(sp) in a 8mth
« on: December 03, 2007, 09:07:03 pm »
Well I had a thread in the Rotti thread about Hip Dysplasia, and that Zeus was showing signs.. Well yesterday I faught the lovely blizzard and drove an hour and half to take zeus to his appt. Well we found out the he probley doesn't have hip dysplasia but His left leg that has caused problems when he was a pup. ( it has a funny toe aswell) the vet is concerned with the toe sence the foot goes out side ways and also his knee is still messed up. SO the vet who looked at it in the first place when He was younger said it was just a sprain and that was that well this vet who is new to the clinic says that is surely not what it is anymore, and that he has a feeling it is arthritis in the knee that probley came from the supposably sprain that the last vet didn't treat right. He is going to try to look in to zeus's BAckground and call the SPCA and Find out if the pups went through any cruelty or abuse. Any way on the 13th zeus will be going in for xrays. He will be getting his knees and hips xrayed that way we will know forsurely if it is arthritis and also at the same time minuse out hip dysplasia. ThE vet told me if it is Arthritis it is a simple surgery to fix this and that after the surgery he would be a hundred purcent better. He gave me some antibiotics for him to see if they help for the time being. Im so nervouse and sad for my pup, he is just so young. Not even a year old, the vet even felt awfull, sence zeus is still just so young .