My little Cricket has LP. Like LJ said, our vet told us it is common in yorkies. Cricket was able to compensate and never had any pain or gait difficulties w the LP. Now as she became an elderly girl, she got arthritis in the knees and hips, which the vet said is common in LP dogs as they age. She was on Glucosamine Chondroitin, and the last year of her life she was on pain meds for the arthritis (she was 13).
As a young dog, however, you could not tell she had LP w/o palpating her knees. |