A while back I posted that he seemed to be having a neck issue. We went to the ortho surgeon and he tried to find out what was going on without success.

He thought it might be a toe injury.

I was skeptical then and have dismisssed that entirely.

I was just away for 10 days in which my mom watched him so the only activity he got was a few short plays with some buddies. When i got home his limp was the same or worse

I'm doing a rimadyl and tramadol regime and going to crate rest him (<= pray for me) for 5-7 days and see if we get some where. Otherwise its back to the surgeon, sigh.

The weather is finally fabulous and they'll be no hiking, field fun or kayak trips for us

 Poor Bugsy.  Hope he gets better soon.  

 @ smatulewicz, .....Maybrie limps if she runs really hard ......REALLY hard and fast, usually in our own backyard!  Come to find out, she has an old pelvic (at the iliac crest) and coccyx fracture.   What the breeder/trainer/vet thought was a leg issue, was actually her pelvis.   We got her at 5 months of age, and there is evidence, due to atrophy of the right leg muscle, that it was an old injury as a younger pup. The vet gave us some meds to help her when she has pain.  It is rare, but on occasion she will limp.  Her hip bones are slightly uneven when she stands, and she turns her right rear leg out.  She actually ran into another littermate and broke her littermates pelvis completely in half.  We don't know if that's when it happened, or if she hurt it jumping from something or falling from the wood pile.  She never showed signs of injury until the day we went to pick her up, and the breeder took her to the vet.  At that time, as the injury was so subtle, they vet believed it was a muscle strain.....go figure!   It didn't really show fully until her growth spurt.  Now, fully grown, it's more pronounced.  Poor girl.  She doesn't know she's hurt though. Thank goodness!  She is SO rough and tumble, there is no telling what that girl did.  She is forever tackling her 75 pound brother!   

Sending Bugsy lots of  speedy recovery wishes!

I am sure it is just as hard on you as it is Bugsy . . . hope the crate rest does the trick and you are back out in the nice fall weather.

Roz.

 I feel for Bugsy.

I have the same thing in the tendon in My ankle and it just doesn't go away completely  .  The docs just give streching exersizes and say to take advil.  maybe massage will help him.

Good luck Bugsy!

Bev I am considering the surgery - I know he is older (7 which unfortunately is old for a dog his size) but gosh he is still so active.

We had to have a couple of lumps aspirated and checked so I am waiting for those to come back and then will decide whether to schedule an arthroscopic surgery which will A) determine exactly what is happening in there and B) they can fix it at that time.

I don't fancy the 6-8 wks of nothing (we did that for the TPLO) but I learned from that experience that sometimes 'resting' only delays moving forward.

Their lives are too short to waste months of nothing only to have to do surgery anyway.

I would appreciate it if you sent a message describing her experience. Firsthand knowledge is always great.

High5Hanna - I too have had my share of tendon issues   And I do realize that this is likely going to be with him for life now. I have read some stories of performance dogs with this that just never get fully back. He isn't a performance dog but he is extremely athletic and active, I have no problem believing he blew this tendon

I so know where you are coming from.  My Maple does not know what the word is take it easy.  She had hurt her shoulder leaping off the porch at a neighbors chicken that came on our side of the fence and everytime I would let her go on my runs at the lakefront, she would end up limping.  The vet really could not find anything but still she would come up lame after a run . . . so she had to stop.  She would cry when I would leave with the other dogs.  But she got her treat when I would bring the other dogs back I would take her down on leash down to the lake so she could swim.  She finally got used to the routein and like Bugsy she was so very happy to doing something.

She seems to have made a great recovery (it has been about 2 months) and I took her running with me today and she is doing fine . . . no lameness.

Hope you are able to find the time to take Bugsy out because no doubt it makes a huge different to them.  And swimming is so good for them.

Roz.