we don't do total hip replacements where i work. from what i hear it is a very hard and long and expensive procedure (much more then $3500 over here). i can't tell you how they recover or what the likely hood of problems could be.
what i can tell you is that in an FHO, the femoral head (ball that fits in the socket) is cut off. Exercise is recommended after this surgery to build up any muscle lose that might have happened before the surgery and to build up even more muscles. the muscles and scar tissue are what keeps the femur in place. I've seen this done of very young dogs and very old dogs, small dogs and large dogs. We've even done bilateral ones on severe cases. Of all the cases i've seen they've all turned out very well...unless the owner didn't keep up their part of the bargain with the phycial therapy.
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