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11-03-2021
Column: Living with Dogs - TOO MUCH REPETITIVE ACTIVITY CAN HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Column: Living with Dogs - TOO MUCH REPETITIVE ACTIVITY CAN HAVE CONSEQUENCES
A few years later there were problems in one of her knees and I knew instinctively that I should have intervened much earlier to break the habit. The excitement for her was the ever-increasing number of dogs and people walking by our property.
After very expensive knee surgery which eventually failed, the other knee which had been compensating for a year started to show weakness, and a dog with no back legs is not an option.
After trying everything from physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and medications I had to decide to take radical action and have another more extensive orthopaedic operation performed, or let her cope and slowly deteriorate in pain. I decided to put the dog through another traumatic operation with a 12-week recovery period in the hope that we could have many more years of normal walking.
As it turned out, during the operation there were found bone spurs around the joint, which were ground down. No amount of treatment could ease the spurs, only surgery.
If your dog has an obsessive or extreme hab

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