Hello All,
We got out first Yorkie a few months ago. She is a wonderful 5.2lb bundle of joy. This little Yorkie has touched our lives in such a positive way with all her little kisses and love. She is about 9 months old now and our vet has diagnosed her as have luxating patella in both back knees with one being worse than the other. Our vet has recommended a type of surgery where they deepen the groove where the kneecap sits.
My concern is with the diagnoses itself. Our Yorkie has no signs of any problems with her knees until the vet does the exam to test for it which seems to cause our Yorkie a lot of pain. And the vet suggest that we do this surgery soon to prevent arthritis from forming. I will definitely get a second opinion before doing anything. But before I let another vet examine our precious puppy, I wanted to see what the normal procedure is for determining problems with knees in Yorkies really is. It is normal for a vet to pop the knee out of joint in order to test for luxating patella? I'm not sure if this is what the vet is doing but some part of the exam is causing pain. And before I let another vet do this, I just want to see what some more experienced Yorkie owners have to say.
Has anyone has this problem before? What did you do?
Thanks
Lisa
