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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  This happened within two weeks of getting the puppy...It would seem to me if was there when they did the health check but I don't know as the femur was soft (my technical word haha) to begin with.
Can you further explain why a C-section would cause this...doesn't make sense to me...dah. |
The study that mentioned the c-sections, stated that they felt that the trauma that damaged the blood supply to the head of the femur may occur at birth and that a traumatic birth was more likely to damage the joint than a non-traumatic birth. C-section they considered to be a traumatic birth as well as pups that required a lot of manipulation during birth. Don't know if I believe this, I just read it when I was doing my research.
As far as a health check finding this, you would have to be x-raying the pup to find it. Even so, when they start limping the hip usually still looks normal (did on my pup), it was diagnosed by finding progressing degeneration of the hip during subsequent x-rays. I don't x-ray hips on my pups, if they are not limping I wouldn't see the point. I do on my breeding dogs just to make sure that they do not have a mild Legge-Perthes with no symptoms. Do other breeders x-ray their pups before they sell them, I don't know?