HELP! Need opinion on x-ray of 6 month old pup - Page 2

If your dog is not developing muscle on her hind legs if you can see outline of bone you better off doing FHO sooner than later because once they loose muscle and you have no bone support you are SOL...if a dog has a good muscle development on hind legs than you can wait and see how it goes... (your pup  does not look too bad on x ray muscle wise)...
 On my dog you can clearly see difference in Muscle from one leg to another ...and in a photo post surgery you can clearly see bone line without much of a muscle definition (we had to swim her 2x a day just to get her to use leg post surgery and develop muscle to support her leg)...we noticed sometime wrong by 6 months, she was diagnosed at 10 months, surgery at 12 months within that time (6 to 12 months)  there was significant muscle loss so we were in a rush to make a decision and get surgery done. I did extensive research on every option, FHO was the best decision that I have made and have not regretted.

So just keep an eye on her muscles and maybe swim her...



 

get better xrays (acceptable positioning) and send them to the OFA.
they will grade them...........its only fair for you and your puppy, and your breeder.
in the xray you have, the positioning is shit, its not fair to submit these.

Not good hips, sorry! Better positioning MAY help some, but I doubt enough to allow for a passing grade.

The epiphysis looks slipped on both hips, there is no good definition of a "neck" before the ball. The sockets are very shallow. Horrible x ray though, position is bad, but the hips are not good regardless.

I've seen lots of pups whose femoral heads and necks don't look that different end up fine. That's not really the concern, here, so much as the shallow sockets and subluxation. Ltgsd, have you looked at a lot of baby x-rays? They're quite different from the finished product. 

When I worked as an xray tech and when we had a dog with very shallow hip sockets, it was often hard to do a better job than this with positioning the dog. There is always the concern that more manipulation will cause more pain for the dog than it had before. Sometimes it's more prudent to cause no harm than it is to be too concerned about positioning. An experienced tech or vet on the leg end of the dog can palpate the crepitus and know that it is better to err on the side of caution and develop the xray and take a look before getting too concerned about the legs being straight and parallel and the knees rotated inwardly. Another xray will not only be of no real value, it could cause irreparable damage to the dog.

Agree Blitzen about the damage to the dog;  my girl that looked probably about the same as these x-rays;  when her x-rays were taken the vet actually pulled her hip OUT OF THE SOCKET;  of course not knowing how bad her hips were,but her right hip actually came out of the socket when he tried to manouver her hips to the degree of taking the x-ray.  So yes damage can happen and that is also why I do not like PENN hip.  I say wait 6 more months which was mentioned above and see whether she is limping and work on her muscle tone.  Good luck  Nan