Goshen's x-rays

Goshen's hip dysplasia has caused her severe arthritis in her right hip joint. Since I have some own experience from working at a veterinary clinic, I immediately saw that the joint looked terrible, when Pini showed us the images. Besides the arthritis we also discovered that she has a prolapsed disc, which has caused arthritis on the two adjacent vertebrates, probably originating from some trauma some years ago.

All in all, she is definitely in pain, but she is a strong dog and that is why she never complained much earlier. Now she is on Carprofen for a month to give her acute relief, and after that we will see how she has improved.

A total hip replacement would fix her completely, but it is very expensive and the dog is after all 8 years old. If I had endless amounts of money I would probably do it for her, but unfortunately that is not the case, so we will have to do the best out of the situation. The long runs with Yoram and Barak are most likely over for her and she need to take it a bit easy. You could actually say that it is fortunate that Barak is gone this week, since there will be no one to provoke her to play and run violently.

She is still happy about life and that is what is most important. Right now she is sleeping below our bed. We called the quarantine compound and Barak is being a good boy, eating properly and showing much less stress then the other dogs.