[Momofthree]

Okay... Help...
We have been to the vet... done the xrays......
But... he did not find any reason for why Nikki (our 12 yrs old lhasa apso) back leg is giving way...

She has a hard time getting up after a nap... or getting up after going tee tee... some time she walks on three legs... I just dont know waht to do...

I am going to take her back into the vet to see if there is any thing we can do... We lost her litter brother on January 2nd to Kidney failure... We actual though she was getting sick... because she stop eating for two days... but it turned out her brother was getting sick... she knew it, but we did not...Since then she has not been the same... ( she did do some morning and sometimes she sniffs for him)

My husband just keep son saying "She is just getting old" but I dont know...

Yesterday she went down the steps to go potty and could not get up... she just sat in the grass until i got her... It just broke my heart...

My Nikki is a little fighter... at two years old she developed a slip disk in her spine near her neck.. and after trying non surgical treatments and waching her cryin pain if we toched her, we arranged to have a specialist fly in and perform surgury on her neck. It costed us an arm and leg. After that, the Vet said she would be like a old woman...

But no... she went on to be a very active little puppy girl...She has seen us through the birthof three kiddos, Moves form Miami, to memphis, to atlanta and now Mobile.... but now she has started slowed down at 12 years old..

Does any one know about hip dysplasia... I really dont know what to do about this...