News on Dakota fho surgery pre and post op: golden retriever gets stitches removed after fho surgery

Friday, July 25, 2008

golden retriever gets stitches removed after fho surgery

Today we went to the vet and got Dakota's stitches removed! That was exciting, one step closer back to normalcy. We weighed him and he has not lost any weight. He moved good for him,and we were told that by monday we should be able to start him swimming, since that is such good therapy for him. Yeah! But, all is well and healing well, so good news for us today.
My only fun part right now, is that I tried just giving him his dog food today minus the extras, and he put his nose in it moved it around and then walked away. Boy they learn quick don't they? Oh, well a few more days and then he will just have to suffer a bit until he decides to eat on his own the regular annamaet food. I love him to death but I am not going to cook rice and hamb. etc.. for him the rest of his life lol.
I will try and post a picture later on here of him with out the stitches..

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I'm not sure how your dog is doing right now, but I want to let you know that if he is clumsy,has a wobbly gait which means that he has a swish to his walk, walks with his head down alot (because he is walking on his front half)which my Dakota did. He had great muscle mass in the front half of him because of this,but very little in the back. Won't even attempt to jump up on your furniture, which is good but at the same time can show you that he doesn't want to use them back limbs.Goes to move your hand with his nose if you are trying to rub those back limbs in the hip joint area (because he is sore,so he is protecting them).sometimes they will literally stumble going up stairs etc.. Now I am not saying that this is definately hip dysplasia in your animal because i am no doctor but those are the things that went on with him and he had severe hip dysplasia.Just ideas,things to watch for and ask your vet about if you are noticing any of this in your animal... These are things that I noticed when we had Dakota. Now, it was a little different with him because he had just been neutered so we weren't sure if things were going on with that at first or something else was going on until a few weeks had passed by and he just wasn't healing like we thought he should be so we made him a vet appointment thank goodness. If you are here, I am assuming that the reason has to do with a possible surgery coming up and you want to learn more and make the right decision. I am so glad that you are doing this!! First of all make sure that you read on the choices of surgeries if you haven't talked to your vet on that yet. I am still worried that maybe the complete hip surgery may have been the way to go for him instead of the fho surgery. He is out of pain which was my goal of course and it will never come back so I am told. But, he has such a swish still when he walks and pretty clumsy still. I know it is early yet and hopefullly these things will still take care of themselves with time and muscle growth. Just something to think about if you have a larger dog like I do. Research,Research,Research you have one chance. Make sure that you make the right one for you and your loved pet.

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