ORIGINAL: onebadf250
ORIGINAL: cascadedad
Hey OBF250, does your dog jump out of the back of your pickup also. Seriously, this could be the problem. When they land after jumping off of something high, the front shoulders take a lot of pressure.
The tail gate on my truck is only 5" higher than a stock z71 chvey with 285's on it which most of the bird hunters I know have and their dogsjump in and out every time. He's not jumping off a mountain. 19-20 times he gets out it in the dirt also. Some of the junk they jump over and run around/through in the field is alot worst on them than jumping in and out of my truck.
truck/vehicile is no.1 area a dog gets injured according to vet info i read..overweight dog jumping out of of truck also is another reason..
women like to get their dogs nice and fat,they OVERFEED them until they look like seal..that is a good reason for hip/joint problems..my sister overffeds her dogs until they almost blow-up..they get cancer,hip/joint problems from that..now she is trying to make my dog fat, i catch her throwing 3 hotdogs at my dog,then i yell and she gets mad..
WEIGHT is main reason for health/injury problems followed by genes..
i lift my dog to ground from my truck but my dog got injured falling thru a brush pile he walked on..he limped for 3 days BUT ran around fine..
hard running dogs get injured..
nice looking dog you have also..