Hey alls

I have a young male mixed breed that I hoped to use for competition agility. He has no mobility problems whatsoever that i can tell, but he kind of walks funny (kind of has barrel legs in the back) and I had x-rays done on him when he was 12 months old. (he's 18 months now).

He was neutered at the time and my vet flexed his rear legs while he was under. we noticed that his legs did not make a fluid motion from the hips when flexed. They kind of "jumped" at one point if that makes sense. That is why we decided to do the x-ray at the time.

I couldn't afford at the time to send the x-rays to a radiographic specialist ($125) and anyway I decided he wasn't yet old enough to diagnose if there was a problem. Mainly I was just wanting to make sure his hips were OK before training him to jump. For financial reasons I didn't follow through.

Pursuant to another recent thread on hips, it was mentioned that 12 months is old enough to detect if there is any hip problems.

So my question is if there is anyone who has seen hip x-rays before and would be willing to give me a friendly opinion on whether he might be fine or if there is an obvious problem. I plan on re-x-raying his hips when he is 2 years old, and at that time having a professional look at the x-rays. I will PM the photograph of the x-ray if anyone is willing to take a look.

What did the vet who took the x-rays say?

Severe problems are obvious, even to a vet who doesn't specialize in that field.

I don't feel comfortable looking at x-rays, but hopefully someone with more experience will pipe-up.

Oh yeah... forgot. She didn't say much, said she didn't really see anything but could send them to the radiograph expert person in another city if I wanted to.

I'll look at it.