Our 8 month staffie Ralph limps on front leg

Hi, hope someone can help, we have an 8 month old staffie, Ralph, he has had a random limp sometimes after a walk but it can be after he has been asleep.He can go days without any signs of a limp, we took him to the vet yesterday and had to show a video because he was fine. He is going for X-Rays tomorrow, I personally think if it was something serious it would be there all the time. This has been going on for about 3 weeks, any ideas ?

No idea sorry, hopefully the X rays will show something or not

I will post the results tomorrow night

Thanks for that, will be a relief to know what it is I bet.

Hope its nothing serious. Great idea to show the vet a video, they never do these things when you go!

Hope all goes well at the vet

Fingers crossed its nothing serious x

Thanks everyone, I will post as soon as we find out the results

Vinny had this when he was younger and our vet said it was "growing pains." Glad you've been to the vet and we will keep an eye out for the results.

Lisa, a few people have told me it could be growing pains, which does make sense as he does not limp all the time

Mawdo wrote:Lisa, a few people have told me it could be growing pains, which does make sense as he does not limp all the time

Vin's limp also used to come and go and it would change between legs. At least you will get the results soon.

hi mawdo ,

Lexy had this for a while there on and off … maybe has been playing to hard and pulled a musce …. OR check is paws as they could be a little swollen thats what the vet had told me to do

Darylkstaffy wrote:hi mawdo ,

Lexy had this for a while there on and off … maybe has been playing to hard and pulled a musce …. OR check is paws as they could be a little swollen thats what the vet had told me to do

Hi Daryl,
Ralph is having X-Rays today, is Lexy ok now?

Oh bless hope all goes ok at the vets

Knox has a random limp every now and then but it normally come on when he's been running or playing hard. There's just no way of stoping him wanting to run, he's a lunatic lol

Couple of days slow walking normally sorts him out

VikkiGT4 wrote:Oh bless hope all goes ok at the vets

Knox has a random limp every now and then but it normally come on when he's been running or playing hard.  There's just no way of stoping him wanting to run, he's a lunatic lol

Couple of days slow walking normally sorts him out

Thankyou, house seems so strange with him not here, I will post the results later

Hi, just got Ralph back from the vets, the x-rays show everything is how it should be but the vet is sending them off to an orthopaedic specialist for a film report, complete rest for the next two weeks to see how he gets on and if there is no improvement he will get sent for a scan. Thankyou for all your kind wishes

Glad it's nothing major, or appears to be nothing major

Hopefully it's just growing pains and he'll get better :Dxx

Good to hear it's nothing major and hopefully the specialist reports say the same.

Lots of mental stimulation while he's on exercise rest