What, if any, impact do you folks believe spending the majority of a pups day on concrete has on his/her physical development? Specifically, can being kenneled on concrete exacerbate the potential that a pup could develop hip and/or elbow dysplasia? I appreciate your help.
I would say at most very little. I would honestly if possible place something in there for him to lay on other than the concrete. Cedar/wood chips would even work. Hip and elbow dysplasia are pretty much inherited however with puppies that do a lot of running and jumping before the growth plates are fully closed invites sore joints aka arthritis.
Concrete will give your dog prtoblems over the long run if it is not heated concrete. If it is just a poored slab and you live in location that has seasons and it gets cold, just concrete will give your dog hips and joint problems. Zoo's back in the day ran into this issue with the large cats. They need at least a wooden floor or some covering to buffer the cold that the concrete will suck from there bones. Arthrieties and other problems can development from long exposure to just concrete over the years. I would deffinitly put something esle in the kennel for your dog to be on like: dog bed, hay, cedar flooring (the best choice), chip board (has chemicals in it though), cedar chips ...etc.
You can always tell a dog who lays on concrete from their quarter size, hairless patches of tough skin on their elbows and hocks. Some actually get open sores. I guess it could be compared to a human laying on concrete vs. a mattress or even just grass. We might wake up with some sore joints and back too. (ouch, thats hurts just thinking about it.) That kind of soreness could affect his performance and maybe cause some swelling or arthritis like Brennan said. I threw some old carpet out on the porch and if they didn't tear it up, they'd lay on it. Along with all the bugs though... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
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Thanks for the help. I have a huge basement with a concrete floor. It is shaped like a plus sign (+). Once I am 100% confident my 4 month old shepherd is housebroken, I am considering gating the right side of the plus sign for her. It is an 11' by 11' area. I was gonna lay a couple of huge and thick rugs in there along with her crate (minus the door). Does anybody have an opinion on this? I really would like to know. She is being crate trained upstairs currently and doing wonderful with it. I would just like to give her some walking room where I know she won't destroy anything during her adolescence. When she is an adult, (a ways down the road) and I know she won't eat a chair, comforter, curtain, etc., she will have the run of the house.
Although I don't agree with leaving a toy out 24/7 for my dogs if you wanted to put something down on the concrete like a rug, I'd leave a toy out for her to play with. Not something small like a tennis ball or small kong but something big and indestructable, and hopefully that would deter her from wanting to chew on the rug or (as she got older and more mature) anything else like chairs or curtains.
I am new to all this and very happy to find this topic on the web. This site has so many intelligent discussions. I am so impressed. My puppy is about 3 months old. His crate is in my bedroom at the moment as he sometime gets up in the middle of the night for a bathroom trip. I know soon I am going to move his crate downstairs. My room is on the second floor and he climbs 14 steps about 2-3 times a day to go to his crate. Is this BAD FOR HIS HIP?? Sometimes I carry him. He jumps too and I am trying to prevent that but climbing the stairs is really scaring me at this point.
What other preventive measures I should take not to aggravate his hip and elbow joints? Any calcium supplements that I should be giving to him? I make sure that he runs on the grass and we have carpet all over our house.
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