Arthritis

[HappyDancer]

Puppers is now 12 years old and he has had arthritis for a little while now and besides the pain meds the vet gave him is there anything else I can do for him, I massage his hips every night and morning and we even put the heating pad on his hips at night...he sleeps on my bed which has a heated mattress pad...hes just so sad looking...its his back legs that seem to not wanna work all the time...any help much appreciated...he goes back to the vet next week to see if he needs different meds in a few days I just wanna do what I can to help him

[RSbunny]

Find a vet who does acupuncture. My old boss used to use acupuncture on dogs and we'd have dogs walking when they couldn't walk from the pain before that.
One of my dogs got arthritis at 8. We used acupuncture on her and she never had to go on meds for her arthritis and she died just before her 15th birthday.

[HappyDancer]

thank you I will look into it thank you

[sara8]

We use gluchosomine. Alot of dog foods have it right in them now, but you can also buy it in pill form. Our beagle has arthritis in his hips to. We give him "butt rubs" too.

[Mel]

Glucosamine & chondritin are great.

We used to give our elderly schnauzers rimadyl, which worked really well.

[HappyDancer]

he gets glucosomine daily...I just hate seeing him have a hard time moving my poor boy, we did call and make an appointment with the vet for acupuncture, and WOOOHOOO they started doing critter care there (its like a credit card but for the vets) so it will make this all so much easier thank you all for the advice it means alot to know so many people want to help