My fifteen month old female rotweiller was recently diagnosed with hip dysplasia. If anyone has any suggestions on how to help her recover from this condition. I don’t want her to have surgery as she is too young & it may not work. I have put her on glucosamine tablets and starting an anti inflammatory injections this week. It is only a mild case and the vet said it can be controlled and not get worse. We put her in our pool and let her swim as there are no hydrotherapy places around our area. I have spoken to so many vets and they all say different things. Surgery is not an option right now as it is not that bad. Although she is limping and struggling to get up, she is still able to walk. I walk her every night and massage her. People have told me they have had to put their dog down but there is absolutely no way I could or would do that. She is literally my best friend. Please help
It was actually our neighbors that gave her to us as they were going to sell her. They bought her from a top breeder- or so they say- for their young daughter without even researching about these dogs. Once she started growing and they realized how big she would become, they no longer wanted her. So I took her. She has now become a family member and I can’t even tell you how much I love her and have cried over seeing her like this.
She can get up but not like she us too, obviously. It takes her a while to walk up stairs but we have been recommended not to let her walk up large flights of stairs. I have taken her to an animal hospital as well as three vets and all have said it’s not serious enough for surgery. I just want her to get better.
And I never said I wasn’t willing to get her surgery. I have the money. I wouldn’t get an animal if I wasn’t able to pay for medical costs. I’ve been told by several vets that it’s not that seriousas yet.
There is absolutely NO WAY in hell I’m getting her put down. She can still run and jump and I will do whatever I possibly can to help her.
Pretty sure I said I’d get her the surgery. Open your eyes and read what I said before you call me selfish buddy. FOUR vets have told us that she does not need surgery as she can still run and jump. So don’t call me selfish. I put my dog before
Myself actually. And I do have the money. If surgery was 0,000 I’d pay it.

My dog is a 4 year old puppy mill rescue. She has a lot of bone deformities and issues with her joints and muscles. She takes half a vitamin for joints every day (Glucosamine) and the vet put her on Rimadyl recently because she was having pain in one of her legs. The leg has bone deformations and she puts a lot of pressure on her wrist joint, especially when she squats to pee… she twists her leg almost 180 degrees to get a good squat.

I give her the joint vitamins, and I wrap her leg in my electric blanket to put some heat on it for about 10 minutes… and she gets deep tissue massages, but she did something to it, and it’s not very sensitive so she doesn’t want me to touch it.

I gave her Rimadyl 2x now and both times she got very lethargic. I took her off it today and she was back to her normal self, but you could tell her leg was still bothering her.

I wanted to see if I could safely give her just half a dose of Rimadyl instead of a full tablet, and thats when I read all the severe side effects. So now I don’t know if I want to give it to her at all… and just wait till after Christmas and ask the vet to recommend something else…

thoughts?
Both the vitamin and the rimadyl was recommended by the vet.
My dog has a great quality of life. She’s very playful, she’s very lively normally, and this is the first time she’s been in pain like this, and it was most likely caused by straining her leg too much or tripping on her way up the stairs because. Her bone issues make it harder on her, but her quality of life is still great because 90% of the time she’s not in much if any pain.

I have strain my knee ligament twice, once in 2002 and another in 2006, no surgery was done as i recover each time about 2-3 months later and able to walk as normaly..But last year i started to feel the pain each time i walk up the stairs or whenever after i have done doing cross trainer..why is this so?Is there any way to prevent any further pain, does talking glucosamine tablets helps?

I know nothing really about glucosamine supplements but I have a 2 year old mutt and her hips click when she sits and I have noticed she hesitates on the stairs. I spoke to the vet and he told me I can try glucosamine supplements.

The ones I started her on have 500mg glucosamine
400mg Chondrotin sulfate
50mg MSM
50mg Vitamin C
15mg Zinc
6 mg Hyaluronic acid
5mg maganese
2mg copper

That is per tablet and she is 40lbs and gets 1/2 tablet once daily.

Is this the recommended amount and if not what is..Thank you!
The name that i see on the bottle is 21st Century pet health.

She is also taking fish oil pills and co-Q10