[107barney]

I wanted to share my experience with Luxating Patellas with you.

My Daisy, a puppy mill dog, was diagnosed with TWO Grade Four luxating patellas when she was just 8 weeks old. She did fine without surgery, until she was just 2 years old and then went lame. We crate rested her for 2 weeks with medication but she still could not walk and she therefore was a candidate for surgery. The other leg never had surgery and although we've had to crate rest her with medication a couple of times over her life, she never became a candidate for surgery because our surgeon would not operate unless the dog was lame. Daisy is now 10 and she runs around like a 2 year old and the knees are good, despite her horrible breeding.

I also wanted to add - Daisy's surgery was performed by a board certified veterinary surgeon who had performed many of these surgeries.

Lastly, I do not use supplementation in this dog - many will use glucosamine with chondroitin (a product called Cosquin) but it has never been recommended by our vets for our dog.

Good luck!