The poor old guy was in GREAT shape (@11 years old) until one day last Aug. I took him to work one day and in the middle of the afternoon he started limping out of the blue. I could see no damage, it didn't look like he had gotten hit by a car or anything, he just started favoring one leg. SO I decided to wait a day or so and see if it just went away on it's own. I didn't.
I took him to the Vet and they Xrayed his shoulder and said it was arthritis. Given his age, I could see this but I thought it was strange that it would just hit him so fast and so sever when he seems perfectly fine up to that point, but who am I to second guess someone who went to school for, what 10 years or so to learn to help critters. I started him on rymadal but it didn't seem to be helping him at all so after a month I took him back and had another Vet look at him, he said it looked like nerve damage and there was nothing they could do, but at least he wasn't in any pain.
Well that changed. After another few weeks I took him back and had ANOTHER Vet look at him. He agreed with the nerve damage prognosis and said there wasn't anything to be done.
After he started showing signs that he was in pain I started him back on rymadal again and it seemed to be helping. Then two weeks ago I was in refilling his prescription and the Vet (the second one that looked at Brutus) was going over his records and he said "Well I see here we Xrayed his right shoulder back in Aug,..."
(I'm standing there thinking WTF!!!!??, it's his LEFT SHOULDER that's messed UP!!)
At the time I didn't say anything since there were quite a few other customers in the Vet's office and I didn't want to undermine their faith in the clinic, but I did go back the next day and ask them about it. The vet that originally took the Xray said "Oh, we may have miss marked the Xray" "Either way, you can see the left shoulder in it as well and I still don't see any damage." I DID look at the Xray and you could see the left shoulder, although not in nearly as good a resolution as the right. And I told them that at this point, my main concern is that he isn't in pain.
Now over the last few days he seems to be hurting quite a lot at night, not being able to find a comfortable position in which to lay.
So today I took him back and the vet said that if he were his dog, he would have the leg taken off.
At this point it's pretty much useless anyway, all the muscle has gone away and it just hangs there.
Poor old dogie.
I took him to the Vet and they Xrayed his shoulder and said it was arthritis. Given his age, I could see this but I thought it was strange that it would just hit him so fast and so sever when he seems perfectly fine up to that point, but who am I to second guess someone who went to school for, what 10 years or so to learn to help critters. I started him on rymadal but it didn't seem to be helping him at all so after a month I took him back and had another Vet look at him, he said it looked like nerve damage and there was nothing they could do, but at least he wasn't in any pain.
Well that changed. After another few weeks I took him back and had ANOTHER Vet look at him. He agreed with the nerve damage prognosis and said there wasn't anything to be done.
After he started showing signs that he was in pain I started him back on rymadal again and it seemed to be helping. Then two weeks ago I was in refilling his prescription and the Vet (the second one that looked at Brutus) was going over his records and he said "Well I see here we Xrayed his right shoulder back in Aug,..."
(I'm standing there thinking WTF!!!!??, it's his LEFT SHOULDER that's messed UP!!)
At the time I didn't say anything since there were quite a few other customers in the Vet's office and I didn't want to undermine their faith in the clinic, but I did go back the next day and ask them about it. The vet that originally took the Xray said "Oh, we may have miss marked the Xray" "Either way, you can see the left shoulder in it as well and I still don't see any damage." I DID look at the Xray and you could see the left shoulder, although not in nearly as good a resolution as the right. And I told them that at this point, my main concern is that he isn't in pain.
Now over the last few days he seems to be hurting quite a lot at night, not being able to find a comfortable position in which to lay.
So today I took him back and the vet said that if he were his dog, he would have the leg taken off.
At this point it's pretty much useless anyway, all the muscle has gone away and it just hangs there.
Poor old dogie.
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