I feel bad for my dog...

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Started limping today on one of his back legs...this happened to his other leg about a month ago- now he can't walk much at all. The vet says it's just a sprain, but both legs are just about out of commission. All he's been doing is sitting in one spot, we have to carry him around //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif. He looks depressed as shit...this sucks.

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[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

Started limping today on one of his back legs...this happened to his other leg about a month ago- now he can't walk much at all. The vet says it's just a sprain, but both legs are just about out of commission. All he's been doing is sitting in one spot, we have to carry him around //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif. He looks depressed as shit...this sucks.

That sux man. My dog got foked up too. Some how busted both his back legs, we pretty much just had to wait it out and see what happened. Luckily he's fine now and didnt need to be put down. Hope he gets better //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Personally I think something is wrong with his back legs...we noticed when we first got him he was double jointed in both of his back legs.

 

[MikeyB 5,000+ posts]

Man that sucks, my dog I had a while ago had the same problem. I came home from school and found him in the back yard by the gate and he couldn't stand up. We tried to help him but he couldn't even move, we had to take him to the vet and have him put down......

 

[bimma85 5,000+ posts]

Personally I think something is wrong with his back legs...we noticed when we first got him he was double jointed in both of his back legs.

Sometimes people are in careers they really shouldnt be //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif. Have you taken him to another vet, just to be sure its only a sprain?

 

[btmorris972 10+ year member]

sorry to hear that about your dog.

when i was growing up we had a black lab. when he was about 8 yrs old he got hit by a car on the highway. noone was home so the guy just carried our dog and laid him on the doorstep.

He eventually healed up. but he was never 100% again

 

[jgarcia9102 10+ year member]

My cat lost the use of both of her rear legs from a blood clot that shot into her spinal chord, paralyzing her from the waist down. she was a mess, had lymphoma also, yet she was as happy as can be. I swear she didnt even know anything was wrong with her.

You would be surprised at how resilient pets can be to this type of thing. and it sounds stupid, but they can sense that something is wrong, and it can make them upset too, so dont make a big deal out of it. Just make everything convenient for your dog, stay close by as much as possible and give it attention. If your constantly sitting with the dog and petting it, it wont want to move. and just bring everything you can close by so it wont have to. If you make it so he dosent need to move a lot, than he will never know the difference.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Sometimes people are in careers they really shouldnt be //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif. Have you taken him to another vet, just to be sure its only a sprain?

Nope. He's going back in 2 weeks. The vet gave him some medication, I'm gonna give it a little time and see how he is with that.

He's only 3 so he's still got a lot of time ahead of him...

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

my husky went out the same way.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

vets told us it was just a pulled muscle, went to another vet to a 2nd opinion and did some xrays. turned out to be cancer, Jake died 2months later.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[iceteebone 5,000+ posts]

my dog isn't doing good at all. he is 15 and he his blind and deaf. he constantly runs into things. his back legs are week due to old age. i have to go outside and carry him into the house because he is blind and gets lost in the yard. he is also bald and farts like you wouldn't believe. i know what you are going through because my dog used to be so spry and would bark constantly at people and run and jump on the furniture. now all he does is sleep. also i my other dog died a year ago january 13th from cancer and he had a knot on his spine where he couldn't pick up his back end. he got cancer so i didn't worry about having that fixed. i agree about dogs sensing something wrong because he knew he was dying cause he would just go and hide in the corner from everybody which was totally unlike him.

 

[AndyB 10+ year member]

Yeah dude i know how that is. We had a dog that just showed up one day, she was about 14 when she died last january. She was crazy, she had bad arthritis and she had some kind of mental proble, either from being old or from a fire that happened here awhile ago. She would pace the house and act like she saw ghosts. Like really, she would look at something that wasent there and then run like it was a scary person. Anyway one morning she got hit and broke her hip. Doctors said she might heal but we would have to carry her around for some months, so we put her down. Sucks.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

i ran over a squirrle and broke its back legs, so i put it in my car and took it home and put it out side to play with it and it took off running and fell over and then died

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

i ran over a squirrle and broke its back legs, so i put it in my car and took it home and put it out side to play with it and it took off running and fell over and then died

u squirrel killer u //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

 

[jgarcia9102 10+ year member]

Doctors said she might heal but we would have to carry her around for some months, so we put her down. Sucks.

not to flame or anything, but i really hate it when people put their convenience over the life of their pet. I understand that sometimes the pet cannot be saved, but if you were given the option of having your dog live, how could you pass it up.

ill just end there, because id rather not argue here. all i know is i spent over $8K on chemo and surgury on my dying cat for her to live 6 more months, and id do it again today if another one of my cats needed the same thing.

sorry nova, i hope your dog gets better.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Snova -

My much beloved late Great Dane, towards the end of her tenure in our family, exhibited issues very much the same as what you've described. Every now and again she'd wake up from a nap and one or both of her back legs would act as if it wasn't accepting input from her brain //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Our vet prescribed Rimadyl to her. It would clear up pretty quickly but once she was off the meds for awhile the symptoms would return.

Ask your vet if that (this particular medication) may be applicable to the problems your dog is experiencing.

Good luck getting it sorted out.