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Originally Posted by YorkyKids Yes this surgery does sound awful But it is really necessary for the comfort of the dog. Genetic Leggs Perthe usually shows up around 9 to 10 months unless there has been an injury to the hip in which case it can show up anytime in the dogs life. Do you know if he fell recently within the last few months? Please do not delay because of fear. Your vet is correct this needs to be done before the muscles waste away or other structural problems crop up. Recovery time will be much shorter. follow your vets advice carefully. He should do fine post surgery. I had a Yorkie have this surgery this year. He was up and moving around in just a couple of days. Within a week he was doing really well with limited activity to play. Today he is living in a pet home and is almost normal. One would never know he had this surgery. And the biggest thing he is pain free! My boy can live a normal pain free life and your Yorkie can too. |
I am in tears reading this. Thank you so much. I am scheduled to take him in the morning. He has intermittently had a limp after strenuous exercise-I had him checked and no x-ray was done when he was 7 months old-they said very mild patella slippage. It is possible that an injury exacerbated the "already problem". I wish I had a way look at several x-rays of other Legg Perth babies- that is the nurse in me I guess. He has been on Rimadyl and has been doing fairly well, but definitely puts little weight on the left hind leg, unless his brother gets him wild acting. The x-ray look bad to me-flattened out instead of round with some loss of density in the top down the center of the head of the femur-I guess I am wishing/ hoping it was from an injury where it would just heal. Do you have any idea what is "fair cost" for this kind of operation. I like in Knoxville TN.
I will post and undate on Cody tomorrow. I'm sick over this-there is just something awful sounding about femor head and neck excision the the bone not being support in the joint that "freaks" me out. I can treat Psychiatric patients and see all kinds of things, but my little 5 lb baby is something else-I can't tell him what is going on.
Thank you again.