The other big huge suggestion I would make would be acupuncture. Even if you have to tether him to you - you honestly MUST make this happen - because not doing so will lead to such severe problems that he could be completely immobilized. You may have to train Andy to use a ramp - a few treats a couple of steps in front of his nose and teaching him to 'stay' until you can help him up and down may help. I honestly can't emphasize that enough - this will completely "undo" everything the meds have done but cause it to get horribly worse really fast. You absolutely MUST keep the dog from jumping - that may mean building ramps to get up to the bed, buying or making some steps or even pillows to aid in getting up and down off the furniture. You can safely give half the adult human dose to a dog even that small (or smaller). I've used valarian root a LOT on dogs - not habit-forming and it's very gentle. So relaxing the area can be critical in getting healing to occur. Has the vet given you any sort of muscle-relaxer? When you are trying to get inflammation down in any sort of bone/joint/vertebrae situation, when there is pain they get tense - that makes bone rub on bone MORE and makes it more sore. There are a ton of things that can be done. Thanks for your help in advance! Andy's Mamma He is an active dog and loves to fetch balls. How much should he have (he weighs 15lbs)? He is estimated to be 4-5 years old but since he was a stray when we adopted him 2 years ago as an adult we don't really know his age. My napropath suggested starting him on a daily regimen of glucosamine chondroitin. We already only use a harness on him since he has a bit of collapsing trachea. I have 9 mo old and 15 mo old sons at home with me all day so I am keeping Andy separated from them all of the time for the 3 week duration.Īny recommendations to help recovery and prevent future injuries to this area of his neck? The doc did explain that this is a degenerative condition. We can manage not letting him go up or down steps easily enough but aren't doing very well at keeping him from jumping since he jumps off and on the bed, off and on our laps or the living room furniture. Since Andy has separation anxiety he cannot be crated to keep him restful. He thinks that is the source of pain and gave Andy an anti-inflammatory injection and pain injection and sent us home with etogesic and 3 weeks of bedrest for Andy (no jumping or walking up/down steps). He said its located between C2 & C3, C3 & C4. After bloodwork and x-rays were taken with Andy asleep, the vet told us that he has two spots that are narrow between the vertebrae in his neck. I lured him into his crate with cheese and carried the crate to the vets office.Īs the vet checked the spine, Andy yelped as he checked range of motion in the neck. This really got me upset and I left the kids with Mark and took Andy to the vet right away. Hubby came in and told me was hurt and tried to demonstrate to me by picking Andy up again and Andy yelped and snapped at Mark in the face and then went and hid from us in the bathroom (which he has never done before). He then preceeded to run up the stairs (I was upstairs by then) and find me. When hubby tried to pick him up he yelped again. In the midst of his pogo stick like jumping, he yelped and stopped jumping. On Tuesday Andy was jumping up and down like a pogo stick at my husband's office door because he heard me come in and wanted to get out to see me.
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