[jaxson]

Our pup J. Crew had surgery on his hip Oct 20 2005. He did not use his leg much at all for the first month. With the lack of use there was quite a bit of atrophy, causing his leg to be about half as muscular as the other. So it has been over three months and he is using it much more. He will now trot using all four legs but still does limp about half the time. The muscle tone is coming back and I am sure once it becomes full strength it will be fine. I would like everyone to know who may have to have this type of surgery to do it as soon as you can so there is as little "pre-surgery" atrophy of the leg as possible. I think if we would have done this sooner before he was loosing muscle tone due to lack of use the recovery time may have been shorter.

I would also like to as the forum a housebreaking question:

We have a dog door for J Crew that is out on a "deck room" which he is confined to during the day. So he can go out side when he wants and come back into his room when he wants. He will never have an accident in his room and will go out his door regularly to go pee and poop. I have noticed he does however like to be taken on walks to poop.

Anyway, my question is why is he still having accidents in the house when we are home and he has access to the entire house? He just turned one year old. If we see him acting like he needs to go then we say "go out your door" and he will go to his door go out and do his business. When he does have an accident his is very ashamed and covers his face and lays down.

I just don't understand if he knows he is doing something wrong by going in the house why wouldn't he just go to his door to go out??!!

This is driving me crazy, any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks