My area has managed to avoid all the dire natural disasters this year, touch wood. These are just the average seasonal storm arriving, a bit late, but normal. Jazz isn't super sensitive about it but if I'm out there storm watching when she thinks it's a bit close, she hovers!
As early as last week, he was still more or less keeping up with Kali. He would run with her but he was starting to slow to a walk faster than ever before. He's been showing pain in his hips for a while now and have been on Previcox for maybe the last 3 months. Last Thursday or so he was acting very slowly and even yelped in pain a few times. He was running around the day before so I thought maybe something got strained or he overdid it with his hips. Today he is just the slightest bit better. But still not interested in chasing Kali or running at all. 
Poor fella. Could it be that maybe the dosage needs to go up?
Could be. I guess I'll have to make an appointment and see if I can find somebody to help me get him into the car. That's my biggest problem . Getting him in the car for transport. So afraid I'm going to hurt him . I can't lift him . I tried to have my horse vet come out but he said he didn't have as many small animal drugs and didn't think he would be as much help as taking him to a small animal clinic. We just came in from a walk for the first time in days . He did pretty good but it was a slower walk than usual.
Looks like a casual stroll, not the usual Doberman dash. Could you send this video so the vet can see it, maybe he can increase the dose without seeing him again? Also, you mentioned he was preferring the back stairs instead of the wooden deck? Maybe he slipped and is avoiding it until he’s better. Our deck is wooden and I always tell Kaiser to be careful and to go slow. You know how slippery it can be with even a small amount of frost.
No he won't go down the stairs. Not without a little encouragement. So I've been letting him out the front which only has one step out the door and one more off the concrete pad to the sidewalk. Yes, the wooden decks can be slippery but like an old person, stairs are getting difficult. He has let out a bit of a yelp going out both doors so something is hurting.
I have a step up that I use on my horses and he's terrible even with that. With two people! When he gets scared, he shuts down and is dead weight. I couldn't even put his feet up on my Equinox and lift him in! He was not helping, at all! lol Stiff and heavy! I'm trying to see if there is a place that I can back up to (like a ditch) that would be lower to the ground. It would be great if I can almost walk him in!
That GIF actually looks a bit faster than he was walking. Its not a smooth walk but looks stilted.
ME!I did think of that too.
Previcox.
