Not exact matches
A small percentage of cavaliers will also develop orthopedic problems such as hip
dysplasia, but
since they are a small
dog, it is not the catastrophe that it would be
in a larger breed.
This is not going to hurt him by eating
in this position, but I am concerned that he is doing so to take the weight off his hips, and
since you mentioned that he might bloat, I would assume that he is a large breed
dog that is prone to hip
dysplasia.
Professor Swenson gives this table, based on a study of the incidence of elbow
dysplasias in Rottweiler progeny (The word «normal» here probably should be
in quotation marks,
since the
dogs obviously are not normal
in genotype.)