Re: bow legged puppy - potential cause?

on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:03:29 GMT, "Suja" <spanaval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In giant breed dogs, bow leggedness can be caused by growth issues,
although it's rarely seen in pups that young (the youngest I know of
was 10 weeks old, on large breed puppy formula, which is inappropriate
for giant dogs). I've seen some pups from the dog park that had funky
structure (like being knock kneed, or having the feet turn out) where
some eventually resolved on their own - mostly, the vets thought it
was from being kept in really confined areas and not given adequate
care when young.

Interestingly, the little guy saw the vet today who declared his knees
perfect and his legs straight. So I wonder if it wasn't a nutritional
deficiency (this guy was the runt) combined with being grossly overweight.
This pup was snarfing down way more food than he should have and was
superfat, but he was fed seperately most of last week and slimmed down and
looks much better already. I'm so glad it wasn't his knees!

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Lynne
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