I am so sorry to hear about your baby. Often issues with luxating patella, albeit a known issue for the breed, are more prevelant when a responsible breeding program is not followed. If well documented health histories are compared to ensure no two historically poor genes are paired before two healthy dogs are mated we reduce the chance of having pups with problems like this. Sometimes these things happen anyway, even with the best of intentions but your best choice is to make sure to go through a responsible breeder who is taking careful note of long term health history not only for the dogs in question but for their siblings etc. It sounds like you were doing your best to keep her from making unsafe jumps that would damage her knees, don't beat yourself up about it.
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