I have a five year old Vizsla who has come up lame in the right front shoulder. It's an ongoing thing, we started to notice it about 6 months ago and it seems have gotten slowly, but progressively worse. Took him grouse hunting yesterday and today he is virtually completely lame. He started strong and I rested him frequently, by the end he was obviously limping. If this follows the course it has before, after a few days he will be better (still with a small limp) and then after exercise he will regress again. The vet x-rayed him and says he has bone spurs on each shoulder though he only seems to limp on the right foreleg. She prescribed Glyco-flex (1200 mg/day) and Rimadyl (100 mg/day), but it seems to have little effect. When I asked about a surgical repair she seems ambivalent or even uninterested.
Does any one else have experience with this? Are his hunting and hiking days over?
Does any one else have experience with this? Are his hunting and hiking days over?