Jillian's X-Rays

[LoveNewfies]

Here's Jillian's x-rays from when I took her to Tufts in June.  Everything looks fairly good - slight tilt in her pelvis and some arthritis in one hip.  Not bad for a dog that has bouts where she can't walk.  Fortunately she's been doing very well - I just wish we knew what was going on.

[minniesmom]

Wow.. you can definitely see the difference in her hips..

reminds me of when we had Kyra's hips x-rayed...  you could see a bottle cap in her stomach!  Vet said that was the only problem to watch for.

[LoveNewfies]

It's weird, though, that even with her hips as good as they are, she can't extend them all the way behind her.  No frog doggin for her.  A bit of arthritis shouldn't stop her from doing that, maybe the tilted pelvis?

I just don't know. 

[minniesmom]

Not all dogs do frog legs.. I've never seen Minnie do it in the 5 years we've had her.

[LoveNewfies]

No, but Jillian can't. I shouldn't say can't - when her legs are extended all the way back, as they did with her exam, she resists it tremendously, gets jumpy and nobody knows why 

[minniesmom]

  poor baby. 

[Kim H]

I wish you could figure it out too, but her xray's do look good considering that she has such problems. 

[LoveNewfies]

That's why everyone is  Kim.  And also why I've been considering that the problem may lie either in the upper thoracic or C-spine. 

[janpo1]

I'm no good reading x-rays but everything looks normal there to me.

I just wish you could get an answer as to why that happens to her.