If you suspect that your pet suffers
from hip disease please contact your veterinarian since very successful medical and surgical options are available for this very painful condition.
Certainly only breeding / buying animals without a history of
hip disease helps, but the the condition can still occur.
But today physicians have more accurate diagnostic capabilities and improved treatments that make it possible for hip specialists to slow or halt the progression of
degenerative hip disease, return patients to their chosen activities, and sometimes reduce the need for more extensive surgeries.
Some also develop occasional eye problems like lens luxation or malformed eyelashes, and some may experience
degenerative hip disease.
To correct this degenerative
hip disease, Stumpy had the first surgery on his right hip in May 2014.
Over the last 23 years, Dr. Turpel has successfully performed more than 2000 orthopedic procedures involving Cranial Cruciate Ligament (CCL) injuries, patellar luxation,
hip disease, amputations, OCD lesions, and simple to complex fractures.
Like many small dogs, they can also be prone to luxating patellas (kneecaps slipping out of place), and Legg - Calve Perthes disease (a degenerative
hip disease).
Prospective buyers should ask whether parents have been tested for eye and
hip disease.
Another hip disease, even more serious, is called Legg - Calve - Perthes.
They can also develop chronic ear infections, skin cysts, degenerative
hip disease, and a serious, untreatable nervous system disease called Progressive Neuronal Abiotrophy or PNA.
Generally healthy little terriers, Cairns can occasionally be prone to skin allergies, cataracts and other eye diseases, heart defects, thyroid problems, globoid cell leukodystrophy (a degenerative brain disease), von Willebrand's disease (a bleeding disorder), epilepsy, and joint problems like luxating patellas (kneecaps that slip out of place) and Legg - Perthes (
a hip disease).