As the title says really. Any Staffy owners or people with decent knowledge about the breed?
Got an 11 month puppy and about two months ago she started randomly limping, Raising her back leg off the ground, limping for a minute or so then back to normal.
Had her down the vet and the first vet said she has something called luxating patella which apparently means her knees keep dislocating. He wanted to operate ASAP ( for no other reason than financial gain i suspect). Same day i saw another vet for a second opinion and his opinion was it probably was a luxating patella but immediate surgery wasn't necessary but she will definitely need it in the near future.
Reason i'm asking advice is, for the last month or so she has been near enough perfect, she's done the raised back leg thing maybe twice for a few seconds. Is it possible as she's developing she's growing out of whatever the problem is? Not bothered about the cost of the surgery to be honest, i'm more bothered about the fact that if she has the surgery done she has to be confined to a cage for the following two months. I don't want to put the poor thing through that unless i absolutely have to.
Got an 11 month puppy and about two months ago she started randomly limping, Raising her back leg off the ground, limping for a minute or so then back to normal.
Had her down the vet and the first vet said she has something called luxating patella which apparently means her knees keep dislocating. He wanted to operate ASAP ( for no other reason than financial gain i suspect). Same day i saw another vet for a second opinion and his opinion was it probably was a luxating patella but immediate surgery wasn't necessary but she will definitely need it in the near future.
Reason i'm asking advice is, for the last month or so she has been near enough perfect, she's done the raised back leg thing maybe twice for a few seconds. Is it possible as she's developing she's growing out of whatever the problem is? Not bothered about the cost of the surgery to be honest, i'm more bothered about the fact that if she has the surgery done she has to be confined to a cage for the following two months. I don't want to put the poor thing through that unless i absolutely have to.
