For the last couple of days, Toby has not been able to jump up on the sofa or the bed, and has had to be lifted. He has had his two usual off-lead daily walks, and run to his hearts content with no trouble.
He has had this problem with jumping up before, (since he was about 1 year old - he's now 4) mentioned it to the vet in the past, on a routine visit, and was told that if he could walk and run as normal, then it was his back.
It has always got better after a few days rest.
As of yesterday, his back must have been better as he could jump up on the sofa and bed. However, when we went on our off-lead walk this morning, he suddenly yelped and was not able to walk on one front leg.
He had to be carried home, and his leg bothered him more over the next hour. He was holding it out at an angle infront of him, as if it was useless. We went to the vets who checked him very thoroughly all over, and confirmed that he had a clicky back, but could find no reason as to why he should be limping so badly on his front leg. He deduced that it was probably soft tissue damage and hopefully with 4 - 5 days of metacam he should be better. Then said, if not, he will have to have x-rays.
I am so worried that this might be a symptom of SM. He does scratch, on the one side of his head more than another, to the extent that that ear does not have the same amount of hair as the other, he does yelp in pain when he jumps up excitedly when we have visitors.
Do you think I am panicking unreasonably?
As we all know with our babies, Toby is my heart dog, and I love him so much.
He has had this problem with jumping up before, (since he was about 1 year old - he's now 4) mentioned it to the vet in the past, on a routine visit, and was told that if he could walk and run as normal, then it was his back.
It has always got better after a few days rest.
As of yesterday, his back must have been better as he could jump up on the sofa and bed. However, when we went on our off-lead walk this morning, he suddenly yelped and was not able to walk on one front leg.
He had to be carried home, and his leg bothered him more over the next hour. He was holding it out at an angle infront of him, as if it was useless. We went to the vets who checked him very thoroughly all over, and confirmed that he had a clicky back, but could find no reason as to why he should be limping so badly on his front leg. He deduced that it was probably soft tissue damage and hopefully with 4 - 5 days of metacam he should be better. Then said, if not, he will have to have x-rays.
I am so worried that this might be a symptom of SM. He does scratch, on the one side of his head more than another, to the extent that that ear does not have the same amount of hair as the other, he does yelp in pain when he jumps up excitedly when we have visitors.
Do you think I am panicking unreasonably?
As we all know with our babies, Toby is my heart dog, and I love him so much.