Jen'n'them

Thank you all for your responses. We have decided not to go ahead with the JPS and feel comfortable with that decision. If later on he needs surgery for his hips so be it but at least he'll be fully grown and it wont be a time crunch decision. Please note... my pup and staffy do not zoom or play particularly hard they are watched and if it looks like it's getting rough it's stopped. he has crashed a couple of times while playing with her and on his own with his rope, but as we have stupid shiny tiles he has no traction. But having said that I will keep a closer eye on them and give him more crate time. AGain I really do want to say thanks for all of your input. I'm glad I asked the question here and didn't just do what was suggested to us.

thanks Ish, thats kinda what we've been talking about that later surgery if needed would be the better option at least he'd be full grown and it'd be a definate not a possible/probable. the more i read the more i'm leaning to the wait and see. I'm only a pet owner not a breeder so only have experience with the pets we've had makes it very hard when the people you trust make recommendations the natural instinct is to trust them and accept their word. Our vet has been our vet for a long time and generally i wouldn't question her treatment options. But he is so young so I do.

Breeder hasn't had any experience with JPS so is as knowledgeable as I am on the topic. They do not breed often and this is only their second litter in 5 years haven't had any other dogs come up with HD that they have been told about. Breeder was as stunned as we were. Specialist will be up here next week I can't get in to see him before then simply as he isn't here to see. I have rung and spoken with another Vet and they said JPS is a good thing he wasn't concerned about no xrays until the day of when a decision by the specialist would be made. Desexing was always on the cards to be done, not at this early an age tho. Vet said it could be done at time of xraying to avoid doubling up on going under. We had planned on doing it around 18months based on what I could find on rotti breed pages. I'm trying to do the best for our pup and make an informed decision. Hence asking in here for advice.

thanks for the input Willem :) muchly appreciated

She wont do the xrays unless he is knocked out. they would be done prior to the JPS and at that point they would either do the JPS or wake him up after he was desexed. she did do a physical exam and based her dx on what we said as as well as her exam. I'm rural and don't have the luxury of multi vets to choose from :)

hi everyone, cross posted up in breed sub as well :) We have a 15 week old rottie pup named Titan. Gorgeous boy and loved by everyone in our family anyway my question... Last weekend he pulled up lame so was limping a bit nothing major and we put it down to him being a pup and playing with the big dogs well ok playing with our staffy girl and getting maybe knocked down a little hard or maybe he over did it on a walk. But we had to take him to the vet for an upset stomach (thank you chicken necks that was a delight to clean up) and mentioned in passing he was a bit limpy. He has never been a jumpy pup even when we visited him at a super early age 6 weeks I believe he was he was a bundle of fun but not jumpy, on other visits as he aged up to come home age (11 weeks old) he wasn't jumpy fun loving and playful but not a jumper. We put it down to hey worlds best pup! anyway the Vet said hip dysplasia after examining his hind quarters. The vet recommended we do a JPS surgery on him but must be done prior to 20 weeks. As you can imagine it was a sucker punch and our knee jerk reaction was to scream out yes do it fix him. But we said we'd think about it and she said to do our research but needs to know by this Saturday. The specialist is only up this way once every 3 months. so we don't have the luxury of time. Xrays were not taken but would be done prior to surgery (he'd also be desxed at the same time). Everything I've read has been, wait and see. manage the problem with diet exercise and supplements surgery as a last resort. Please help is this JPS something we should do now or should we wait. I know you can't make our decisions for us but we do need input, we want to do what is best for him. He will be desexed but we were wanting to wait until he'd finished the bulk of his growing. Parents have good hip scores and we saw both dogs as well as each pup every visit, both mum and dad were running around beautiful stride and all round stunning dogs. The breeder is just as upset as we are. We don't blame the breeder these things can just happen i don't want to bash them and have nothing but positive things to say about them. :) Jen Diva the staffy and Titan the unruly **can't for the life of me remember my old login been a member for about 6 years now**