One of my girls has been battling with a slight lameness in her hind legs so that she battle to get up stairs. We have had extensive E-Rays done, back, hips, knees everyting, full blood planels, everything is fine, their is nothing we can see that is wrong with her. Somedays are better than other.

I have wondered if any of you have some advice. She is happy, plays, eat, drinks and all the rest it just sometimes it is as if she does not know where her hind legs are exactly.

Shame Is she old? Perhaps it's neurological? I have watched vet programs of more extreme cases of course but it was often something neurological causing it.

I really hope you can find the solution to her problem

Is it both leggs or just one leg? I hope you can find out what is wrong with her. I also think maybe it is neurological?

Thanks, no she is almost 4 years old and just my pet not one of my breeding girls but I feel so sorry for her.

Maybe it's a nerve getting pinched somewhere? Have they thought about luxating patellas, hypoplasia of dens or legg-calve-perthes syndrome? These are common problems in Yorkies - more information is on the YTCSA's website.

The only other thing I can think of is arthritis... Yorkies can suffer from arthritis and it's often overlooked when breeding a dog. Arthritis can cause lameness in the back legs.

I hope you find the answer and that it's nothing serious!

I was also thinking it could be luxating patellas Some years ago my one girl went totally lame in both her back legs - it was the most frightening thing ever I raced her off to the vet, & I was in such a state - but the vet calmed me down very quickly & said it was luxating patella. He clicked the knee joints back in to place then put her down on the ground - & she was strutting around the sugery - 100% fine again The vet said for it to happen in both legs at the same time is very, very rare. He showed me how to put everything back in place if it happened again, but thankfully a number of years have passed since it happened & it has never happened again

Thanks for your concerne I appreciate it.

No , we have checked her patellas, hips and spine, did extensive X-rays under anesthia, and it is both her back legs. My vet spoke to a Specialist and because we can not find something wrong, also did a complete bloodpannel again, everything checks out fine. He also thought it might be early stages of arthiritis but we can not see any signs of it on the X-Rays, and because it comes and goes it can not be neurological, because as the specialist explained if something in her brain is damaged it will be permanent and not now and again. We think that it might be something like a virus and she is on medication now to see if it might help but it will take time. If that does not help the only other option is to have a procedure at Onderstepoort where they inject a dye into her spine to see if they can see something that the normal X-Ray does not pick up, but that is a R15 000-00 procedure and very invasive so they do not want to do that if it is not necessary. I will gladly pay that if my baby will we healed.

We also looked at something called Wobblers Syndrome but apparantly that is extremely rare in the Yorkie and normally start in large breeds like the Great Dane at a much younger age and is sometimes caused by to much calsium in dog food as a young pup. So we doubt if it is that, just trying to rule out stuff.

Shame Well i really hope you figure it out soon. Luckily for her she has a dedicated owner like you who is willing to go to all ends of the earth to help her.

Thanks for the kind words TaylorWoods, I think all of us here would do almost anything for our babies, that is why I enjoy it so much, we can come here not just for the good stuff but also for the not so good.

Amoureux, How is your little girl doing? Any news?

That is what has us so baffeled, somedays like the last two day you would not say anything is the matter with her and then all of a sudden it is back. Thanks for asking, we are handling it day by day and just trying to have as normal a life as we possibly can for as she is not in pain and such a happy little girl.

well i really hope you find out what is wrong soon. it's times like this I wish that they could speak and tell us what is wrong