what I feared came true
 

Pnut had his dental yesterday, I told his vet I wanted him to recheck his LP- Pnut is at a grade 3 on his right knee and grade 1 on his left. Which I already knew, but a year ago his knee wasnt as bad as it is now. Pnut will need the surgery! He has been lifing and hopping a lot more then he ever has- I knew it was coming, but I didnt want to believe it. He is on Cosequin he has been for a couple months- I notice the cosequin doesnt work like it use to either.. Dh and I are going to put some money away.. and I think we are going to do his Sx in December- I will have 2 weeks off so that will be good-

Our vet has a specialist that will do the surgey, he does about 2 a month and they are mostly maltese, yorkies so he is use to working on small breeds- I am such a wreck, i have been so upset!


For all of you that has had the Lp surgey on your furbutts I have a couple questions!!

What age did you get the surgey on them?
What grade was the pet at the time of Sx?
Do you have any problems?
How hard was the after care?
What made you decide to do the surgey?

I am going to do more research, but I really want first hand expierence!!

My vet also said if I do wait until Dec, I have to watch him and if I see him in any pain or him not using that leg he will need the Sx asap!!

Sophia is a grade 4 in both legs. She will be having surgery this year. They've just now started to bother her. Poor thing.

Sorry about Peanut.

aaaw, poor baby, there is so much to worry about with our Yorkies.

Oh no- too bad we didnt live closer they could be surgery buddies!! Does she lift/ hop a lot?

Oh, poor Peanut and Sophie, I don't have experience with LP (not yet:rolleyes:) anyway. But I will pray for successful surgeries for these sweet babies when the time comes.

Very sorry about that. I have a 4.5 month old puppy and wanted to prevent LP. Did your yorkie exercise a lot? Is there any way to prevent LP? Should I exercise him more or less?

Lp is in the genes- nothing you can do to prevent it. I would def get your babies knees checked out!

My Mikki has LP in both of hers. At this time we are not looking at surgery. But I am sure it will be in the future. I know you are upset but think of it this way, you will be helping him in the long run. He will not have the pain he is experiencing once it is all over with. :)

That is exactly what my vet explained to me.

Thank you. I will have my vet check him out when he turns 1 yr for his anual screening THANKS!

I'm very sorry, but he will be better after the surgery and will not have the pain that he does now.

Ahhhhhh...so very sorry!! Bevo has LP too. He has actually gotten better this past year and rarely ever "hops" around anymore. I, too, know that surgery is in his future...but at least its something that can be fixed!!! Prayers for Pnut!!!

Thank you guys..

Aw poor Peanut! At least it is treatable though and youll be glad once its done because you wont have to worry if hes in pain or discomfort

Callie is 4 and she had the surgery on her right back leg in November and we didn't have a choice of if we could wait or not because her ACL was tearing. Her knee was a grade 3. The first two weeks was the toughest for me because the first few days she was so groggy, wouldn't eat, wouldn't drink just nothing and she just looked so sad and pitiful. Coming home with out her after I dropped her off for surgery was terrible too I cried and cried. The whole two months and even now I am having a problem getting her to eat as much as she should. I keep Callie in a puppy cut and had her shaved very short a few days before her surgery and after the two months when she could finally get groomed boy was she shaggy. The nurse at the vet hospital gave me a pill shooter (i know that sounds so bad but its not as bad as it sounds there is no shooting of the pill) and I am so glad she did because sense Callie was not eating there was no way to trick her with the pill and that's the only way to get her to take tramadol. I really suggest doing the physical therapy after wards our physical therapist walked Callie on the treadmill in the water and would give me some papers with some exercises to do to help her strengthen her leg. After three weeks we had to start physical therapy and walk her 5 minutes a day twice a day then the next week it was 10 minutes a day twice a day and it goes up by 5 minutes every week. With the cold weather the walks were slightly difficult but I just bundled her up in her jacket and me and mine I also fell in the snow once and that was painful. I don't know if you saw my posts or not but after Callie was cleared for activity and was returning back to normal activity she started to limp all the time and hold her leg up constantly so we went to the orthopedic surgeon and he said she was definitely in pain and sedated her for xrays and then had to pull the pins out and be on pain meds for a week as well as leash walks for 3-5 days. How she is acting now and walking so good I am very glad we got the surgery done but for a while when before we knew the pins needed to come out I felt so bad like a made the wrong decisions and she was going to be in pain and limp forever it depressed me. Now I cannot stop smiling when I see her walking great. Sorry he is going to have to get the surgery.