Sheila, We are sending healing, comforting thoughts your way. I sincerely hope all goes well with Thor.

Anxiously lurking.......

Good news! Thor is fine today and I don't believe his lameness came on suddenly. My son called to check how he was doing and said that is so weird
because Sunday he was diving and doing flips when we played fetch with out any problems. If I had this information yesterday, I would not have taken him to the vet. I banned fetch (with a ball) as an activity over the summer because he hurts himself every time. He hammers his body and can't take it anymore. I never mentioned it to my son because he was away at college thus when he took him out this weekend they shared a nice game of fetch.

I have a call in to the vet to see if I should continue the aspirin as a precaution. I took him swimming today nice and low impact and will probably do the same for his exercise for the rest of the week. I have a close eye on him but with his history of acute soreness (lasts no more than two days) after fetch; I'm a lot more relaxed since there is a reason he would be in a bad way vs it just coming on out of the blue.

Thanks again for all the support! I guess he gets the heated bed for Christmas that Connie highly recommends and my son gets the "dog house".

I don't know how I miss these threads.

Glad he's doing better Sheila. Hope he continues to do so. I bet he's excited for that heated bed!

Sheila, that is good news! Maybe your son and Thor can share that heated bed...

Great news!

Fantastic news!!!!!
Whew!!!

I have noted, although my dog is 2.5 yo, at 90#, those "bouncy" type non-tennis balls cause me concern with the twisting type body movements, & in the air;
I have started "rolling/throwing" more ground level, vs over hand throws!!!

So Glad Thor is better!!!

Thanks all.

I got an answer to the fish oil as a blood thinner query. It has the capacity to thin the blood but in canines that effect is very mild at best. So Omega threes would not exert enough of a platelet blocking effect to eliminate the use of aspirin to treat blood clots. As far as aspirin, I don't think there have been any studies to prove to what effect that thins a dog's blood either.

Another interesting tid bit of information; not only can you not mix aspirin and rimadyl; you have to wait a full week without aspirin before you can safely give rimadyl.

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I got an answer to the fish oil as a blood thinner query. It has the capacity to thin the blood but in canines that effect is very mild at best. So Omega threes would not exert enough of a platelet blocking effect to eliminate the use of aspirin to treat blood clots. As far as aspirin, I don't think there have been any studies to prove to what effect that thins a dog's blood either.

Another interesting tid bit of information; not only can you not mix aspirin and rimadyl; you have to wait a full week without aspirin before you can safely give rimadyl.

Really good to know - thank you posting this!
And I'm so very relieved that you've found a reasonable (and avoidable) cause for Thor's strange lameness. What amazing drive these dogs have that keeps them from self limiting when their bodies are obviously no longer up to task... I'm sure he'll LOVE that heated bed!!

~Natalya