hi, me dog is limping on one of his hind legs, ( going to vets tomorrow, no appointments today), it happens after he has ran, and he just does a couple of steps without putting this leg down, then is fine. hasn't yelped about it, isn't reluctant to go out or run about or get in the car. do you think its just muscle strain? he's 8 1/2 months old, a husky x mal. am worried its his hips, tho not really showing the symptoms associated with that.

Could also be patella as they tend to sort of skip with this . Hopefully will be good news at vets

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thanks clueless.

Could be the knee , how much execise does he get, wear and tear on young joints is more common than you think , Both mine ave OCD a condition that afects the cartillage in the elbow joints they have had a course of Cartrophen injections and fingers crossed this helps re build the joint and lessen the effects of the OCD .

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try giving her glucosamine

Way ahead of ya we give Glucoamine shark cartillage , and green lipped muscle lol oh and cod liver oil in the food too .

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hi there,how did u get on at vets?same happened to my ab ,she has ruptured both cruciat ligaments & has already had 1 leg operated on 3wks ago,shes recovering well,hope thats not the case wi your dog...interested in hearing how your dogs doing,,marie

hi marie, thanks for asking about him. the vet said it was possibly just a pulled muscle, and gave him inflammortorys and said if it keeps reoccuring then they will look at doing xrays. he's been bounding around as normal, we just haven't taken him out off the lead. However when i got home from work this morn, we found that during the night he had decided to take all his tablets at once, there was 5 left. not sure if he got them all or if his brother mangaged to eat any so had to ring the emergency vet who said he would be alright, and my vet said they would leave it for now and not prescribe any more,just to see how he goes. not sure if he had pain around his knee, as when the vet felt there he whipped his head around at her, but no wimpering.

Bless him - Good to hear, its nothing to serious and its just a pulled muscle.
Im sure the inflammortories will help.

Good luck. xx

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thanks karen