How to deal with weak pasterns? - Page 2

She looks OK. Exercise moderately, swimming is great. Feed meat ( raw) and for joints chicken feet ( in oriental or Hispanic supermarket) - best natural and very bioavailable glucosamine , chondroitin MSM and hyaluronic acid- ( joint forming compounds). make sure that you wash the feet in water with bleach of 1 tea spoon per gallon - ( disinfectant ) and then rinse it thoroughly or cook is well for about 1/2 hour. Cooling will then generate gelatin which you should feed no more then 1 -2 table spoon lest you risk diarrhea. Feed 1-3 feet per day.
Prager Hans

Hi! Thank you for your answers! Finally my girl started swimming in the local lake. The temperature here is 20 degrees C and the water is not cold, because the lake is relatively small. Now she loves the water and wants me to throw a stick for her again and again. In my oppinion she swims a lot for a beginner :D . My male doesn't like swimming that much. He doesn't like getting that deep in the lake as my girl does. I'm really surprised that she doesn't get tired from all that swimming. After the swimming session :D she is cooled and doesn't get tired as easy as she did before when playing fetch. Unfortunately, there aren't any beaches here... We play fetch on a football statium, because she can't hurt her paws.
If she swims every day(because she really started to like it and just wants to swim :D) for how much time will her legs get better, because in winter she can't swim. I haven't heard for a dogs' swimming centre in the entire country...
I feed her with dry dog food(grain free). We changed 3-4 dry dog food brands till we found the perfect for her. She has sensitive stomach because of her previous owner's neglect.

Try under "Pet Hydrotherapy" for animal swimming & physio
services. You might need veterinary referral.  You have not

said which country you are writing from, but there are a ton

of dog pools opening these days, it has become a popular

business opportunity !
Sorry to hear you can't find sand - but it sounds as though
because she is now happy to swim, she should improve her
strength all through, including her pasterns. Don't think anyone will be able to give you a specific time frame -

all dogs are individuals.
But I guess you can reckon on at least a couple more

months, based on just what she's doing now; with additional support from a hydrotherapy centre, may be a little quicker ? What do others think ?

I can't find anywhere in your post where you said how old she was.

Friends of mine had a black lab. They went away to the lake for 6 weeks during the summer. When they came back, the lab was an absolute sleek, hard ball of muscle from doing what labs are meant to do: swimming!

The change was amazing!

She is young, I don't know exactly how old is she but she's fullygrown. We are from Bulgaria, I have never heard about a hydrotherapy centre here.

Check with vet cardio issues due to heart murmur.that no underlying congenial heart defect is a possibility .bless her beautiful girl I hope its just a fitness issue as you say but be on the safe side get her checked out .good luck.

We've already made her full examination. The most important is that she doesn't have hip dysplasia, her elbows are OK and she doesn't have heart problems.
Her feet are flat. I didn't find much info about how to deal with that condition in adult GSDs.

That's cos flat feet isn't something you can influence
much. As she gradually strengthens and gets more
running exercise in, you may find her feet tighten
slightly, along with the improvement in her pasterns.

Here is a pic of her pasterns and paws.

Like I and others said : seen worse !

She does seem very "hocky" still @ rear, but that is
more and more prevalent these days and, again, should
tighten up, the fitter she gets. Unless she is very much
older than we think from what you told us (and she only
looks like a young adult, not an older dog), in which case
you probably won't improve much on the cow hocks, you
just have to be patient and keep working on it. Glad to hear
her heart is okay, that was a good suggestion from Leopold
re the tiredness. Wishing you the best of luck, Boltipo.