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Originally Posted by maggiemolly

Yesterday morning Molly woke up limping. She sometimes walks on three legs. When I palpate her foot, knee joint, and hip joint, she shows no signs of withdrawal or pain. There is nothing festering in her foot. She's cautious, but still up and around and wanting to play. She doesn't appear ill in any way. My older Yorkie, Maggie, started limping several months ago and I ended up with a huge vet bill and advised to use chondroitin, which helped. Can I feel comfortable keeping an eye on Molly right now and give her chondroitin also? I know this makes it sound like I am not a loving responsible parent, but at the same time in this economy I don't know where I would get the money for another vet visit. Anything else in the possible diagnosis category that I should be aware of?

My yorkie was doing the same thing, we thought he had just hurt himself playing till we took him to the vet and found out he had Legg perthes, they can tell by doing an x-ray, we are now taking Vegas in for surgery and it's going to be about 1600.00$

I would recommend taking him to the vet now because if caught early there are some methods they can try before surgery, Hopefully it is just a sprain but I would have it checked just to be safe.