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Permalink Reply by JH on July 7, 2009 at 6:44pm

One day around Easter 2008 Carmel was running and catching frisbees, the next she was dragging her legs. The vet did a check on her hind feet that he said showed DM. He felt that we didn't need to go through the cost of the xray's and mri's because of the test he did and the fact that she was overweight. I still feel we should have had them done to rule out hip displasia or other leg probs first. (She had knee surgery as a puppy after getting caught up in Florida's floritam runner grass). We had ramps set up for her to get into the house. The vet gave us some pills that did wonders for her in the beginning, but he cautioned that they had their own side effects. When she was not on the pills she couldn't move well. She still wanted to chase the frisbee and bring in the paper. We were looking into the carts, but after Christmas, she began to lose the use of her front legs. We had to carry her in and out for potty time. Eventually she had to be held up to eatand drink. She couldn't make the outside trips anymore, which you could tell bothered her more than anything else. She had always been a very clean dog and would always let us know if she needed a wet one to clean up, so the confinement was awful for her. We finally asked the vet to put her out of her misery in Feb 2009. The vet said she had the beginnings of kidney failure, pneumonia and possible spleen cancer. She would have been 14 in June.

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Permalink Reply by Cindi on July 7, 2009 at 9:36pm

You know, when you think about myelin degeneration, it makes one think of diseases like MS.

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Permalink Reply by Maddy & Keke on July 8, 2009 at 7:24am

Isn't this the same as Multiple Sclerosis?

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Permalink Reply by JH on July 9, 2009 at 7:38pm

I'm sure he forgives you. Our corgi was so miserable at the end you could see it in her eyes. It was almost like she was accusing us of making her have to stay in one place and when we had to lift her to eat and drink she got very mad. She wasn't the same sweet lovable girl and it tore my heart out. She would look at us as if begging us to let her run around and go potty on her own terms. We had her cremated and she came home in a pink drawstring bag with a tuft of her fur attatched. They gave us a certificate and a copy of the rainbow bridge poem. My husband got a clear jar with a vaccuum seal top and we put her remains, her collar, and photos in it. It was placed near the corgi statue (which looked just like her) over our TV so she will always be with us in spirit. In fact, our new puppy glances up to the jar daily as if they are talking. It is odd and touching.

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Permalink Reply by MaryAlice Musante on July 15, 2009 at 10:45am

Our Lucy fell down the stairs when she was a pup and hurt her shoulder. She seemed fine until she was about a year old and couldn't walk to the street corner. Our breeder suggested a chiropractor she uses for her horses. He is a God-send. He fixed her shoulder so she can walk with us again. She can't do agility like I wanted but she can go on walks without pain.
MaryAlice Musante

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Permalink Reply by christy fry on July 15, 2009 at 1:07pm

I personally don't have a corgi with this disease but read a artical about it in a dog mag. it is common, but livable the artical talked about hand made carts that you can order and use to give your corgi unrestricted movement back. Go to u-tube and type in corgi's with wheelchairs there are plenty of videos showing corgis frollicking with them.

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