News on Dakota fho surgery pre and post op: Golden Retriever,my little wood chipper

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Golden Retriever,my little wood chipper

Hi, I'm glad you stopped by, feel free to look at the rest of my blog! It has videos,information on animals, hip dysplasia & my golden retriever and his fho surgery and all that is involved.

Update

Dakota has been doing pretty well. Still doesn't have the full balance that he needs. Everytime i stand him up to push on the front of him to put more weight on the back of him, he just sits down lol. So I tried standing him up and just letting him have some weight on the back of his body, but he sat down then too...
We walk alot and he just has a very quick pace so I may end up getting some roller blades to just let him go at his own speed.
The muscle is slowly building up,but it sure is a long process.
He is a little wood chipper,his favorite past time is chewing a stick to wood chips in a matter of minutes. I am going to have to get a bunch of wood for him to chew on, on our back deck for this winter.
Being that we have mostly wood floors, it does not always work to his advantage. He is clumsy and loses his balance at times yet. Especially if he tries to chase the cats!
Keep checking back I am going to start adding some more information on animal care etc.. Have a great day...

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I have links,videos,information on fho surgery both pre and postop on my golden retriever Dakota. There's also links to other sites both informational and fun.

dr on video explaining who gets hip dysplasia,what is hip dysplasia,symptoms of hip dysplasia and the diagnosis of hip dysplasia

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.