[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Some help about hocks
- From: Doctrcorgi@xxxxxxx
- To: dezign@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 20:19:17 EDT
The best way to strengthen hocks, abd you are really growing muscle to take
up the slack in the Achilles tenton, is to give the dog regular, moderate
exercise. Hocks are not unsteady...they are made of BONE...The tendons that
connect
the muscles to the bone are the slack ones..This may be due to the dog being
TOO THIN, as many of you keep your pups....for what reason I dont know...or it
may be due to a neuromuscular condition where the nerves are not fully
developed. When this happens it pruduces slackness in the muscle and thus the
tendons connecting the muscle to the bones. Some times this is Juvenile Spinal
Myelopathy....these cases may improbe with time and development of the muscles
to
take up the slack...If the hocks do not tighten up, and the dog does not stop
walking on the hocks, or had calluses on the backside of the hock, or the tail
is somewhat to completely dead, you are dealing with DM of the puppy. THis
is a recessive problem that is reproduceable out of two normal parents...I
have done the research!!!
Chuck Kruger dvm.
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