plebayo wrote:I've never personally had a knee done on my dog, I know with our clients their dogs generally speaking have to take it easy like for 6-8 weeks. The concern is that the dog could not only hurt the repaired knee, but also hurt the good knee.
His initial injury was mid March, and then a re-injury a few months ago. So, we're at more than 6 months now. It's wearing for us and for him. Leaving him home for the DSO was not fun for any of us. From what I've seen so far, the major concern is the other knee going because of the additional strain put on it during the time before the repair of damaged one, and during the post-surgery.
I've also been appalled at the number of people that I seen post on forums who leave their dogs for months or longer just running around on knees that they
know are destroyed. "He runs just fine for a while, then he starts limping" and "he can really tear around on three legs"

Granted, limiting Connor hasn't been fun, but letting a dog run around because it "wants" to isn't exactly responsible either. My nieces and nephews would like to play with matches and guns, but should I let them do it because they
want to?
I'm also concerned about surgery failure. From what I've read, if a TPLO or TTA fails, there is no "do-over." However, if you do the traditional surgery, it can be re-tried. But is that a catch-22? Does the traditional surgery fail more, but can also be re-done so that's "ok"? (well, not ok, but you know what I mean)
I just don't want to do this twice... and frankly, considering my (lack of) employment status, we can't afford to do this twice.