Conditions
Every joint, ligament and mobility condition we cover, from CCL tears to hip dysplasia. Start here if your dog has a diagnosis.
Achilles Tendon Injury in Dogs: What Owners Must KnowThe first sign is almost never a dramatic limp. It is a hock that sits lower than it should, a heel that brushes the ground when it used to stay high, and a dog who still wants the ball thrown. That mismatch is why this achilles tendon injury dogs complete…Read the guide →
Arthritis in Dogs — Signs, Costs and Care | PawGenA figure cited across veterinary orthopaedic literature puts osteoarthritis in roughly one in five dogs over a year of age, and prevalence climbs steeply in dogs past middle age. Almost none of those dogs are diagnosed when the disease begins. They are diagnosed when it becomes visible, which is usually…Read the guide →
Avulsion Fracture in Dogs: Complete Guide | K9-REPAIRA five-month-old retriever that suddenly refuses to bear weight after a hard game of fetch is rarely dealing with a pulled muscle. In an immature dog, the apophysis and growth plate at the top of the tibia are mechanically weaker than the quadriceps tendon anchored to them. Under a violent…Read the guide →
Bicipital Tenosynovitis in Dogs — Owner's Guide | PawGenThe most damaging mistake in canine shoulder lameness is not the choice of anti-inflammatory. It is the walk on day ten. A dog on pain relief looks improved long before the biceps tendon has remodelled any collagen, the owner resumes normal exercise, and the limp returns inside a fortnight. Repeat…Read the guide →
Bursitis in Dogs — Signs, Causes and Care | PawgenMost owners find it by accident, running a hand down a sleeping dog's front leg and hitting a soft, fluid-filled swelling on the point of the elbow. The first instinct is to panic about cancer. In large-breed dogs, that swelling is usually a bursa doing exactly what it was built…Read the guide →
Carpal Hyperextension in Dogs — Signs, Causes & CareThe canine carpus has no muscle bellies crossing its palmar surface. Stability there comes almost entirely from a stack of short ligaments and a dense palmar fibrocartilage plate, which means no amount of conditioning or muscle building will hold that joint up once the support tears. That single anatomical fact…Read the guide →
CCL Tear in Dogs — Signs, Recovery & Care | PawGenThe word 'tear' suggests an accident. For the cranial cruciate ligament in dogs, it usually isn't one. The American College of Veterinary Surgeons describes cranial cruciate ligament disease as the leading cause of hind-limb lameness in dogs, and in most cases the ligament degenerates quietly over months or years before…Read the guide →
Chronic Diarrhea in Dogs — What Owners Need to KnowMost owners wait far too long before they use the word chronic. In veterinary gastroenterology, loose stool that persists or keeps returning beyond roughly three weeks stops being a passing upset and becomes a chronic enteropathy, which is a different problem with a different workup and a different set of…Read the guide →
Chronic Pain in Dogs — What Every Owner Needs to KnowThe loudest sign of chronic pain in dogs is silence. Dogs with long-standing joint or spinal pain rarely yelp. They just do less: hesitating at the sofa, taking stairs one at a time, sleeping in a tighter curl, greeting you from the bed instead of the door. This chronic pain…Read the guide →
Cognitive Decline in Dogs — What Owners Need to KnowThe most common mistake owners make with cognitive decline in dogs isn't missing the signs. It's seeing them clearly, then filing them under 'he's just getting old.' Pacing at 2am, staring into a corner, forgetting a housetraining habit held for a decade: none of that is ordinary ageing.Read the guide →
Colitis in Dogs: Signs, Triggers and Treatment | K9-REPAIRFresh red blood on the last inch of a stool looks catastrophic. In large-bowel disease it usually is not a haemorrhage at all. It is capillary bleeding from an inflamed colon lining, which is exactly why so many dogs with frightening stools still eat breakfast, chase a ball and act…Read the guide →
Crate Rest in Dogs — What Owners Need to Know | PawGenAsk a veterinary surgeon what undoes a repaired cruciate or a herniated disc, and the answer is rarely the original injury. It is the leap off the sofa in week three, when the dog feels better and the household has quietly relaxed. Crate rest usually fails in the seconds outside…Read the guide →
Cruciate Ligament Rupture in Dogs — Owner Hub | PawGenMost cruciate ligament ruptures in dogs are not injuries in any meaningful sense. The ligament had been degenerating for months, sometimes years, before the afternoon your dog spun after a ball and came up three-legged. The American College of Veterinary Surgeons describes cruciate ligament disease as the leading cause of…Read the guide →
Cruciate Surgery Recovery in Dogs — Timeline & CareThe operation is rarely where things go wrong. Week three is. That is the moment the incision looks healed, the pain medication is working, your dog feels genuinely well, and a single unsupervised leap off the sofa can compromise a healing bone cut or tear the meniscus that survived the…Read the guide →
Degenerative Myelopathy in Dogs — What Owners Need to KnowThe most common mistake owners make with degenerative myelopathy is not missing it. It is calling it arthritis. A dog whose hind end sways, whose rear nails wear flat along the top edge, and who crosses their back legs on a turn is not showing joint pain. Those are neurological…Read the guide →
Disc Herniation in Dogs — What Owners Need to KnowA dog with a herniated disc can still wag his tail, eat his dinner, and meet you at the door while disc material presses against his spinal cord. That gap between how a dog looks and what is happening inside the vertebral canal is what makes intervertebral disc disease so…Read the guide →
Elbow Dysplasia in Dogs — Complete Guide for OwnersElbow dysplasia is not a single diagnosis. It is an umbrella term covering at least four distinct developmental lesions inside the same joint, and one dog can carry more than one of them at the same time. That is why two Labradors with near-identical X-ray reports can follow completely different…Read the guide →
FHO Surgery Recovery in Dogs: What Owners Must KnowThe most common setback after a femoral head ostectomy is not a dog doing too much too soon. It is a dog doing too little. FHO removes the ball of the hip joint entirely, and the body has to build a fibrous false joint in its place. That tissue only…Read the guide →
Fibrocartilaginous Embolism in Dogs — Owner EssentialsThe most misleading part of a spinal stroke is how calm the dog looks afterwards. A dog sprints, yelps once, drops, and then lies there with a paralysed back end and a wagging tail. Owners wait, because a dog that isn't screaming can't possibly be an emergency. That assumption costs…Read the guide →
Food Sensitivity in Dogs — What Owners Need to KnowThe most common reason a diet trial fails isn't the food. It's the pill pocket, the flavoured heartworm chew, the dental stick, and the half biscuit from the neighbour. Veterinary dermatologists treat a strict elimination diet trial of at least eight weeks as the diagnostic standard for adverse food reactions…Read the guide →
Gastritis in Dogs: Signs, Causes and What to Do NextThe vomiting is what you notice. It is rarely the actual problem. Vomiting is the visible endpoint of an inflamed gastric mucosa, and the Merck Veterinary Manual separates gastritis by duration for a reason: acute cases often settle within a few days with supportive care, while vomiting that persists beyond…Read the guide →
Growth Plate Injury in Dogs — Owner Essentials | PawGenA limp in a nine-month-old Labrador is a fundamentally different problem from a limp in a nine-year-old one. In a growing dog, the weakest link in the leg is not the ligament, the tendon, or the bone shaft. It is the physis, the plate of soft cartilage sitting near the…Read the guide →
Hock Injury in Dogs — Signs, Recovery & Care | PawGenMost owners who spot a hind-leg limp assume the knee is the problem. The hock is not the knee. It sits high on the back leg, bends backward, and functions as the dog's ankle, and that single anatomical mix-up is the most common reason a hock problem gets watched at…Read the guide →
Hot Spots in Dogs — Causes, Care and Recovery | PawGenThe most common mistake owners make with a hot spot is not the ointment they reach for. It is leaving the hair in place. A lesion trapped under a wet, matted coat can double in size overnight, because it feeds on moisture, heat and friction.Read the guide →