Ross was limping early in October, we had no idea why, but initially I wasn't too concerned as he charges round so much with Kaiah. In mid October I took him to the vets and she said there was pain in his right elbow. From what she could feel the joint felt ok and she suggested we give him metacam and see how it goes. He was fine then till mid Dec when he crashed into a rock sticking out of the snow. I heard it, I saw it and he made a huge performance about it so I thought he'll be ok in a few days. Anyway as he wasn't I gave him what was left of the metacam and thought he was getting there, but last night at club he was obviously lame. Steve says I'm jumping to conclusions as Ross lets me manipulate the joint in all directions and just stands there with no reaction at all. But I do now feel a slight clicking in the joint, which again Steve can't feel. I can't help my concerns, I've got it in my head that he has an elbow problem, and to be honest last night I came home from club in tears.What so misguiding is that Ross is not always lame. But reading about Elbow dysplasia in dogs it says that the pain is often intermittent, but can be persistent. I know if a dog is lame then something is not right and they can be so stoic, but what also confuses the issue is that Ross is the clown at the party, he's an absolute nutter. He's tearing around here like a loony and without permanently crating him then stopping him is impossible.
I've tried carrying on as normal, I've tried resting him. But I don't know what the right thing is to do, if he's walked then he sleeps all afternoon, if he's not walked he's leaping off the furniture. Catch 22 I guess.
My huge worry is, if this is worst case scenario then there is no way we can afford the cost of specialist surgery. But Ross is just a young guy with his whole life ahead of him, we have to do the right thing by him as well as us. I just hope I'm wrong here, I hope to god this is something and nothing and that it'll soon be an unpleasant but distant memory.
