Hello all,
So Freedom is growing like a weed, too quickly if you ask me, I miss the huggable, portable, puppy in a women's purse kind of Doberman already. But I cannot complain as he's turning into a great boy. Stubborn at times, but heck what Dobie hasn't had it's challenges.
Anyways I meant to be brief. This Tuesday Freedom awoke to have a nice limp on his RF Leg. Assuming he slept on it wrong I ignored it to a point after examining him and not finding anything wrong ( cuts/thorns/bites ). Later that day it never healed, and now he is showing pain in his RR leg. Well this is great, when I picked him up to put him in the truck he yelped in pain. Now showing signs of his underbelly. Well this is serious I thought, called the vet, of course booked. Tried finding another vet within 100 miles and they either weren't taking new clients or booked 3 weeks out. Well how do you do, next the Breeder was on the call list. Of course diagnosing a puppy with an at times idiot describing the situation isn't a solid way to get a problem solved. With a few ideas of what it could be, now all I could do was wait. No Fever, no Vomit, no real signs of internal, eyes were clear, gums etc.
Carried on for a few days but now the pain is in just the RR leg and a sore belly area when I pick him up. Potty is normal/firm, he's eating but not as much as he had been. He's resting a lot too, not active at all. Finally Monday rolls around and I get him to the vet. Test after test, blood, fecal, and finally I asked for x-rays. Wouldn't you know it $700 later he get's a clean bill of health. Today he's running, eating like he was prior. I'm glad it was nothing but dang, 6 days of worry, only to find out it was maybe growing pains ? Does this sound normal, anyone else experience this ?
So Freedom is growing like a weed, too quickly if you ask me, I miss the huggable, portable, puppy in a women's purse kind of Doberman already. But I cannot complain as he's turning into a great boy. Stubborn at times, but heck what Dobie hasn't had it's challenges.
Anyways I meant to be brief. This Tuesday Freedom awoke to have a nice limp on his RF Leg. Assuming he slept on it wrong I ignored it to a point after examining him and not finding anything wrong ( cuts/thorns/bites ). Later that day it never healed, and now he is showing pain in his RR leg. Well this is great, when I picked him up to put him in the truck he yelped in pain. Now showing signs of his underbelly. Well this is serious I thought, called the vet, of course booked. Tried finding another vet within 100 miles and they either weren't taking new clients or booked 3 weeks out. Well how do you do, next the Breeder was on the call list. Of course diagnosing a puppy with an at times idiot describing the situation isn't a solid way to get a problem solved. With a few ideas of what it could be, now all I could do was wait. No Fever, no Vomit, no real signs of internal, eyes were clear, gums etc.
Carried on for a few days but now the pain is in just the RR leg and a sore belly area when I pick him up. Potty is normal/firm, he's eating but not as much as he had been. He's resting a lot too, not active at all. Finally Monday rolls around and I get him to the vet. Test after test, blood, fecal, and finally I asked for x-rays. Wouldn't you know it $700 later he get's a clean bill of health. Today he's running, eating like he was prior. I'm glad it was nothing but dang, 6 days of worry, only to find out it was maybe growing pains ? Does this sound normal, anyone else experience this ?