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For the past couple of weeks Moose has been favoring one of his rear legs - for the first few steps he takes after getting up he won't put any weight on it and basically holds it up and hops. Then after a few steps he puts it down and walks perfectly normally... and otherwise runs, plays and goes up and down stairs completely normally. He also doesn't appear to be in pain and doesn't react when we feel around the leg, hip and knee...
We had the vet do a really quick look at the leg last week when we had Booker in for her back - she felt around the leg and flexed his hip and didn't think there was any obvious problem with the hip or the knee (he had strained his ACL once some years ago, but was then obviously in pain and reacting totally differently than he is now, which is really limited to the few hopping steps when he first gets up).
The vet said to watch him and if he didn't improve to bring him back in for a more thorough look, which we are definitely going to do since he continues to do the Moosie-hop. In the meantime I was wondering if anyone else had experience with anything like this?
We had the vet do a really quick look at the leg last week when we had Booker in for her back - she felt around the leg and flexed his hip and didn't think there was any obvious problem with the hip or the knee (he had strained his ACL once some years ago, but was then obviously in pain and reacting totally differently than he is now, which is really limited to the few hopping steps when he first gets up).
The vet said to watch him and if he didn't improve to bring him back in for a more thorough look, which we are definitely going to do since he continues to do the Moosie-hop. In the meantime I was wondering if anyone else had experience with anything like this?