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On Monday morning our one-year-old hound/husky Ned was suddenly hobbling, barely able to walk on all fours and in obvious pain in his front right leg. After an x-ray, he was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans (OCD), also called flattening of the bone.

Anyone have experience with this? It’s basically a flap of cartilage that forms at a joint causing lameness, not uncommon with larger dogs. 

We’re scheduling him for surgery, which has a 75% success rate, so we’re hopeful he’ll go on to have a healthy and active lifestyle. But it’s a long recovery with at least four weeks of exercise restriction and no playing with other dogs, which sucks for such a high-energy pup. He’s being a pretty good sport so far, but pain meds probably help.

 

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On 1/29/2025 at 7:29 PM, South Austin said:

On Monday morning our one-year-old hound/husky Ned was suddenly hobbling, barely able to walk on all fours and in obvious pain in his front right leg. After an x-ray, he was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans (OCD), also called flattening of the bone.

Anyone have experience with this? It’s basically a flap of cartilage that forms at a joint causing lameness, not uncommon with larger dogs. 

We’re scheduling him for surgery, which has a 75% success rate, so we’re hopeful he’ll go on to have a healthy and active lifestyle. But it’s a long recovery with at least four weeks of exercise restriction and no playing with other dogs, which sucks for such a high-energy pup. He’s being a pretty good sport so far, but pain meds probably help.

 

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As with most things, doggy-ibuprofen and, possibly, puppy-CBD will cover most of it.  Good luck keeping him calm.  After my last two crazy-dogs were fixed, they weren't supposed to jump up on anything for a week or two.  That lasted about a day.

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On 1/29/2025 at 7:29 PM, South Austin said:

On Monday morning our one-year-old hound/husky Ned was suddenly hobbling, barely able to walk on all fours and in obvious pain in his front right leg. After an x-ray, he was diagnosed with osteochondritis dissecans (OCD), also called flattening of the bone.

Anyone have experience with this? It’s basically a flap of cartilage that forms at a joint causing lameness, not uncommon with larger dogs. 

We’re scheduling him for surgery, which has a 75% success rate, so we’re hopeful he’ll go on to have a healthy and active lifestyle. But it’s a long recovery with at least four weeks of exercise restriction and no playing with other dogs, which sucks for such a high-energy pup. He’s being a pretty good sport so far, but pain meds probably help.

 

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Follow up:  Ned's having surgery on Friday.  From what I've read, 75% of surgeries to correct OCD are successful, with dogs no longer experiencing lameness after recovery, so fingers crossed this works.  It sucks, because in early January he had two weeks of exercise restriction to recover from neutering, and now he'll need closer to four weeks of crate rest, which is tough on a one-year-old large dog who craves a lot of physical activity.  He'll be doped up on Trazodone for much of it to keep him chill and off the healing shoulder as much as possible.  Poor guy.  Looking forward to running with him in the backyard again.

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7 hours ago, South Austin said:

Follow up:  Ned's having surgery on Friday.  From what I've read, 75% of surgeries to correct OCD are successful, with dogs no longer experiencing lameness after recovery, so fingers crossed this works.  It sucks, because in early January he had two weeks of exercise restriction to recover from neutering, and now he'll need closer to four weeks of crate rest, which is tough on a one-year-old large dog who craves a lot of physical activity.  He'll be doped up on Trazodone for much of it to keep him chill and off the healing shoulder as much as possible.  Poor guy.  Looking forward to running with him in the backyard again.

Get better, Ned. 

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Thoughts and prayers for all of the good buddies who crossed the bridge, or are recovering, or trying to recover, from sickness or injury.  Sebastian is my rock these days, and I don’t know what I would do without him.  
 

I took Sebastian to the dog park at lunch today and it was just me and another old man with two coon hound puppies.  They were so full of energy and my big guy was just trying to chill.  They were jumping on him and barking at him and he started growling at them with his ears back.  I went up to him and gave him the settle down command and he immediately chilled out and just ignored them.  I was really proud of him because that is something that he struggles with and we’ve been working on it.  I praised him extensively, and thought to myself that I could probably take a cue from him these days.

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