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What Could Be Wrong With My Dog?
I wanna start by saying that I know none of you are vets and I plan to see a vet soon. I just want to know if any of you have run into this problem. I have a nine year old male yorkie who will actually be ten in January. Sometimes I forget how old he is because he still acts like a little puppy, which is why it kills me to see him start to develop old dog problems.
A while back, my mother's yorkie, who's a bit aggressive, picked a fight with mine and injured his leg. It took excessively long for his leg to heal and as soon as it did, the same thing happened over again. It took so long to heal that time that I knew the fight alone wasn't to blame for his pain. I also noticed that he no longer limps on the same leg.
I went on a trip over this past weekend and put the dog in a kennel Thursday evening. I got back yesterday and got him out and when I did, the kennel owner said she thought he had arthritis. She said she'd help us get medicine for it.
Then today, we were sitting in a recliner when my cell phone started ringing as my mother called me. The dog typically gets really excited when my phone rings because he associates that ringtone with getting to see my mom soon. He started barking in excitement and jumped up, but then started squealing and fell back down ad if it hurt bad just to put that kind of pressure on his legs. I had to carry him to my car to go give my Mom a ride as he was having such trouble walking himself.
Does this sound like arthritis? Has aanyone run into this problem with their dog before?
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Being in the Kennel may have meant even less movement for him and a small amount of moving the muscles can help animals same as people if they can tight muscles, arthritis, or an area of previous injury that acts up with weather changes, or stress from a change in situation that makes an old injury flare up even when seeming to have healed. Its good you're going to a vet. I've known plenty of pets who developed problems with their hips due to age, or due to the particular breed having issues with that and it's hard to see ones pet in pain when it doesnt have to be. There may be daily supplements prescribed that take care of it, or depending on what it is, arthritis in the site of a previous injury, there may be some kind of therapy described.
Good luck.
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