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by: Okiedokie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Oct 28, '14 5:28pm  
Our boy has it. I guess he has had it for awhile(before we got him).
 
We were told no more long walks. He is already hyperactive so I can't imagine how he will be without as much exercise.
 
I know some KDC peeps have dogs with it-any advice? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 28, '14 5:29pm  
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Okiedokie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Oct 28, '14 5:38pm  
Our first lab had this.  We did the surgery for him.  But unless your dog is in pain, I would not recommend it.  It was just so hard on him.  He lived many years after the surgery, but he just wasn't the same dog.  
 
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He had the hip surgery on one leg already when he was 3mos. He had pins put in the other leg but nothing was done to that hip. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 28, '14 6:56pm  
what does your vet say?  generally you have to be careful of him putting on weight because extra weight is extra stress on the joint. from the merck veterinary manual:http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/musculoskeletal_system/arthropathies_and_related_disorders_in_small_animals/hip_dysplasia_in_small_animals.html?qt=hip%20displaysia&alt=sh 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 6:33am  
what does your vet say?
 
@ProblemAgain: Vet said considering what he went through, the dog looks great right now.   Both of his legs were broke when he was less than 3 months old.  He is at his ideal weight(can even put on about 5 more pounds).  He said the dog obviously wants to please us and we just have to pay close attention to any signs that it is getting worse.  Right now, he just pops a ton, can't stay in one position too long and gets very stiff when it is cold.
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 7:20am  
Maybe acupuncture would help him?  If you are open to trying this make an appointment with Dr Knapp at Veterans Memorial Animal Hospital.  281 440 4441. She is awesome. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 7:40am  
One of our labs ( Brian who just passed) was DX'ed when we got him at 7 months- probably thnx to his moron owner who threw him out of his pickup WHILE driving. We didn't do surgery- we walked him and he loved to swim- our vet said swimming was good for him. We also kept him very thin- he was a big lab and we kept him a bit underweight- you could definitely see his "waistline" and feel his ribs. The vet said it was good as he was healthy. Towards the end he had some muscle atrophy in his back legs and he couldn't get up on the furniture but he still had his spirit and hid his pain. He was 10 when we put him down- that's pretty good without any intervention. At the time, I thought it was the hip dysphasia that got him but now more and more I think it was a spine or brain tumor. In the course of 2 weeks he went from a dog dealing with hip dysphasia to a dog that couldn't stand without falling- he looked drunk.
Anyway good luck with your Lab- it doesn't have to be debilitating- they can lead long live relatively normal!! 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 8:16am  
@OkiedokieSorry about your boy. I had a similar experience to @Jpgurl years ago with a lab mix. He was diagnosed with hip displasia at 4 months and lived a normal life until he was about 9 years old.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 8:48am  
Now I hate to against what your vet says, but we had a dog (our very first one) a collie mix. He had extreme dysplasia in both hips. No socket left what so ever.He loved to play however.More than one vet said they doubt he would make it to 9 years old.I used to make him run up and down the stairs by playing fetch and tossing his toys up the stairs.It ended up making his hip muscles strong enough where he lived to 15 before he was in too much pain and we had to take care of it.He was not much for long walks, that would aggravate his hips. But running up and down stairs seemed to really help him.Plus he could quit when he was in pain (which never seemed to be before i was tired). 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 8:51am  
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 9:06am  
If the dysplasia is not too severe they usually build up a "false socket".  Better for the dog to keep the weight under control so as not to put too much stress on the joint.  Dogs with hip dysplasia can live a normal life if it is moderate or less. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 9:09am  
In the course of 2 weeks he went from a dog dealing with hip dysphasia to a dog that couldn't stand without falling- he looked drunk.
 
@Jpgurl: That same thing happened to our Akita/Husky/Malamute mix we had. She was 14, the vet said it was a type of stroke (layman's terms) and had some name for it. She didn't have dysplasia, just a good ole dog. We loved her dearly. That is our two at the time, she is the one on the left, while the one with Hip Dysplasia is the one on the right. The young girl is my 36 YO daughter (today) 
 
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 9:14am  
Is this most common in Labs? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 11:30am  
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 12:44pm  
Oh wow, I wish I could remember the name of the injection. They use it on horses, we found a vet that was willing to give it to our dog at a lower dose, and it helped for another two years! He moved 1000 times better. What in the world was the name of that drug? think think think Emoticon 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Oct 29, '14 12:46pm  
We also noticed days that we gave our old dog a childrens aspirin he seemed to be able to move around better as well. Still trying to remember the hip injection drug name. Maybe a vet on here will know what I am talking about Emoticon 4951
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