Looong delayed update, Lily has been off the Metacam for a little over a week now, and she’s still doing pretty well. One thing we have realized for sure is that walking helps a lot. She will often limp quite a bit in the mornings at the beginning of the walk, and at the end of walks especially later in the day she barely limps at all. She will limp substantially less after being taken for a long walk, and substantially more when she hasn’t been walked that much recently. From what I understand, this is not characteristic of luxuating patellas, and much more common with arthritis. She is really young to have arthritis, but jumping too much as a puppy, which I’m sure she did, may cause that. I also have no idea if she was responsibly bread or not, so that could make a difference.
Since she is doing pretty well I’d be hesitant to do x-rays, but it is awfully mysterious. Does anyone have any thoughts on whether to go ahead with x-rays or not? Thanks!
