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[quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry that you have to make this decision. We did this surgery on our dog when she was only 2 - so the advantage/disadvantage calculations were quite different. I found the recovery to be quite grueling. My husband did the PT exercises with her daily and we were supposed to be very careful to keep her off stairs and from jumping on furniture. We also did the paid rehab services with some aqua therapy at Friendship Animal Hospital (though we did the surgery further away). I was grateful that my dog was very small, so I could carry her when she wasn’t supposed to be walking much. It is very likely that an older dog with one knee tear will tear the other knee within about a year. This has definitely not been true for my younger dog, though I think about it when I see her playing a little rough with her dog friends. The tear happened while playing with a dog in our yard. [/quote]
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