Help my dog has growing pains!

growing pains

Medium and large dog breeds grow quite rapidly between 6 and 18 months. The growth spurt is particularly evident in your dog’s legs. His or her bones suddenly become a lot longer and thicker. This has the effect of increasing the nutritional requirements (blood flowing in and out through the dog’s veins through the nutritional channels in the bone) of the bones. The nutritional channels often cannot keep up with the rapid growth of the bones, causing the blood vessels to constrict and causing congestion in the bone marrow and fluid accumulation under the periosteum. This pain is called growing pain.

symptoms of growing pains

Symptoms that may indicate growing pains in your puppy or dog include lame/ankle walking, not wanting to walk or get up, sluggish behavior and fatigue. Your dog may also be more affectionate and squeaky than usual. Often the symptoms of growing pains are obvious, especially by putting pressure on your dog’s bones. Since this will be for sensitive he or she will let you or the veterinarian know. It is recommended to always have an X-ray anyway. In fact, lameness in puppies can have other reasons as well.

reduce/prevent growing pains

Growing pains go away on their own. However, this can take weeks, making it very annoying and painful for your dog. You can limit the pain through painkillers and rest. In addition, it may help to feed special food that slows the growth spurt of bones. Despite your pup/dog suffering from growing pains and needing to take it easy, exercise remains important, of course.

A dog walker not only serves as a tool for adequate exercise, for losing weight or for training a sporting dog. A Dogmill can also be of great value in relieving, correcting or preventing orthopedic complaints, among other things. Growing pains cause joint pain, lameness and instability. Movement becomes difficult as a result. Therefore, normally when a dog walks or runs outside, it happens in an asymmetrical movement on an unstable surface. When your puppy or dog runs on one of our Dogmills, it does so in a straight line. This causes less pain and a smaller chance of overloading the joints.

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