hind legs trembling
 Besides, it might be a symptom of a disease more serious then just some nervousness.
I will be very greatful if somebody could tell me what the problem means and what can be done about it? |
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| I have no advice or ideas for you... SORRY. I just wanted to say that I hope you get to the bottom of it. Keep us posted! |
| Sounds like he has some weakness in his back end...
Ask your vet if you should do hip xrays. Also a good supplement would never hurt (a glucousamine,chondroitin) Hope he feels better... |
| If you've already ruled out hip dysplasia through x-rays, it's possible he could have loose ligaments in his hind end. My Komondor has the same issue and he also shakes in the back end when he's tense, or if he has to do anything that involves squatting or bending in the back area. The vet suggested low impact exercise to help strengthen the ligaments. I also don't make him sit unless it's a necessity.
I'm not a vet, though. Please start there. I can share experience but I'm in no way qualified to diagnose! |
| Hm. If you rule out the usual medical suspects, there is an american line that produces something like this. I don't know much about it, in fact no one I talk to seems to what it is, including my vet who is also an OES breeder and who has seen it herself. It is apparently not orthopedic, certainly not hips, so is it neurological? Or?
I do know it's genetic and a dog from that kennel has been widely used in Europe as well as other dogs who go back to some of his relatives. Don't even know where in the pedigrees it can be found exactly. I've never heard that it progresses though, nor that it affected quality or length of life. Who knows? As for showing, I've seen dogs who do this finish, even one who trembled enough that he looked nervous (he isn't, I've been told) and at least one who did it only slightly be very successfully campaigned as a special, but if I was a judge it would concern me a great deal. I know as a breeder and a performance person it sure as heck does. It's a true oddity. No idea if it can be found in other pedigrees and not saying that's what your boy is experiencing. Hopefully it's something a lot less "exciting" that you can do something about. Kristine |
| Hi, My Frankie has done this pretty much all his life. I did have the hip xrays and there was no sign of HD. Frankie is 3 yr old now and he does his little leg shakes when he is excited. He never does it when he is scared, then he just walks low. Frankie can and does jump straight up into the air about 5 feet, over and over and over, everyday of his life.....just to get my attention so I know his back legs are strong. |
| Have a chiropractic vet check the spine to make sure all is well there. Also have the hips x-rayed to make sure no signs of a HD problem. 2 years old good time to have the hips evaluated.
Rule out those two areas, in the spine can be pressure on the disk or out of alignment, inflammation or even a slipped disk. When one of mine was younger, back leg shake, active bouncy still, turned out she had a slipped disk. Had that fixed and no problems after. So rule out possible problems there firstly if nothing shows up then maybe just an excited OES that shakes with excitement  |
| could be he just highly strung like my bear who gets the shakes in his hindquaters at least once a day...the bear don t really conform to the breed standard way too much white fur ...i wondor if theres a ratio of white fur to nervousness in our breed ? i just give him love an ignore it but no mistake this bear s highly strung an defo not show standard |
Thank everybody very much for the replies. Now I understand why the vet didn't know what to say. It turned out a really interesting and unknown problem. I have not heard about something like that in his mother's bloodline, but I don't know much about the father's one. The father is from the UK where breeding rules are quite strict, so hopefully it is not inherited, though one never can tell when it can 'crawl' out. Actually, I suspected that he might had some weakness of hinds at the age of 2-3 months when his brother jumped out of a crate , but he staid in. But now he jumps and runs all right, there is no any sighns of weakness. Thinking about the slipped disc, it could happen because playing with his mom he always rolls over his back on a full speed, could fell over a stone or something else. It looks like the shaking comes and goes. And only when he stays still. I think, if it were some sort of nerve damage, it would show in lie position as well. I also noticed that he sort of resists when I try to lift and bend hind legs. Probably, muscle tension is higher than normal which results in the shaking. I wonder how one can check muscle tension in a dog. Defenitely not with that little hammer  I will continue to 'dig' for the answer. |
What is written above is from Chelsea, confused the order of events  |
| Unless there's extreme weakness or tension (and that would be obvious) you can test a dog's reflexes with a little hammer but that doesnt tell you about muscle tension. Its a test to make sure that there is no interference to the nerves at the spinal level or higher. It is hard to test for subtle muscle weakness or nerve conditions, so you're right a tricky problem for a vet to address. |
| Thank you very much, Mim
Could you, please, describe the test with detales? Where are the points to hit on a leg? I am very interested how to do it on a dog. |
| Sorry I'm not a vet so cant tell you exactly where the points are. I've only watched my vet do it after my dog had a spinal injury. There are two points in each leg (the same as humans) one at the ankle and one at the equivalent to the human knee.
I think experience is probably needed too. Because I compared the reflexesin my dog to what I see in my human patients and said "oh great, he still has reflexes" and the vet said that for a dog they were increased which meant that there was some irritation to the spinal cord.  |
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