bit of advice please

One of Clio's rear legs cracks and clicks really quite loudly when she walks, shes not in pain she still runs around like a nutter, shes eating and drinking well, eats plenty of biscuits and has more than enough oily foods such as tinned tuna and fresh fish for her bones and joints, but its really starting to make me wonder what it is, is it serious enough for an x-ray or is it something someone else has dealt with before ?

Could be her knee joint. Does she 'skip' sometimes when she's out & about?

not that ive noticed ? but i do exercise her quite a lot and her rear thigh mussels look to big for body sometimes and she kinda moves her rear legs around instead of forward and backwards, if that makes sense

Without seeing it, it's a bit difficult to say - let's face it, staffs tend to run differently to other breeds.

Usually any 'clicking' will be the knee cap slipping. That's why i asked if she 'skips'.

Keep an eye on her & if she starts to skip, or she seems to be in discomfort, pop her along to the vets.

will do, thank-you.

How old is she?

Maybe get the vet to give a quick check just in case of anything underlying and put you at rest.

Caryll wrote:Could be her knee joint. Does she 'skip' sometimes when she's out & about?

Caryll, am I right in thinking Lux/Pat is pretty difficult to diagnose even for a vet without an x-ray

Andy wrote:

Caryll wrote:Could be her knee joint. Does she 'skip' sometimes when she's out & about?

Caryll, am I right in thinking Lux/Pat is pretty difficult to diagnose even for a vet without an x-ray

A mild case, yes. But a severe case is easy - they just pop the knee cap out of the groove! Obviously they would need to x-ray before going ahead with surgery, but a vet can be 99% certain just with manipulation.

Yeah that makes sense

I did wonder cus when ya look at the knee area, and feel the area around it, there's not a lot there other than the cap, tendons, ligaments etc

Could it be artheritus? - sorry can't spell - my old staff used to click n he suffered with artheritus