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labrador puppy hip surgery
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Kerry, most dogs make a good recovery after these ops and live good lives, it's definitely better to get the op done than not if you have been advised to do so by your vet. He will probably develop arthritis in his hips in later life but with anti-inflammatory pills/drops when this arrives he will do fine!
What a shame such a young puppy has to go through this horrendous surgery. If you carefully follow the advice regarding rest and treatment then I am sure at this age his body will learn to cope.
Without causing kipchick to have a coronary, can I ask whether the parents were hip scored and was the puppy registered? I hope the breeder has been informed and you might even consider getting in touch with Trading Standards, because the puppy you have been sold is not fit for the purpose for which you bought it, i.e. living a nomal life as a family pet. If they are allowed to keep on breeding from the parents then other dogs and families will suffer as you are.
Kerry if you weren't told any of this by the breeder or the parents weren't hip scored and the puppy is kennel club registered then you need to let the KC know. If the puppy is not not KC registered and the breeder did not let you know any of this then I don't think you can get much done about it.
So sorry to hear your problems kerry. Were the hip x-rays sent away to be scored? If they were the results will be published in the Kennel Club's Breed Record Supplement. Were the parents hip scores put on the registration certificate? Only asking because �450 is not cheap to pay for a lab, and you would expect to get a reasonable one for that money. Although I agree that low hip score parents cannot guarantee anything (it is still not known how much is down to environmental conditions) at least if the parents had low scores then the breeder is not to blame.
Hope it all goes well and he is back home soon and on the road to recovery.
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