Hi ....I see you and Molly joined the wheeled corgis group, welcome. Here are a few websites for the carts. My Cobi's cart is from eddieswheels.com. Others you may want to look at are: doggon.com, handicappedpets.com, k9-carts.com. We also use the bottoms-up leash to help him to go out and go potty sometimes. I have a photo and video on my page. Any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
Just a couple of questions....can Molly scoot around in the house at all? Has the vet said it is hip dysplasia for sure? There is also degenerative disk disease and degenerative myleopathy (spelling). My Cobi has actually started moving his rear legs more once we got the cart. He still can't support himself enough to walk though.
You are so welcome, and yes it has been very heartbreaking to watch the difficulties that Cobi has had getting around and I know what you mean about the sad eyes when they look at you wondering what has happened and why don't my legs work anymore mom? As far as knowing that it is disk disease, Cobi had an x-ray which revealed the problem with the disks. We went to an orthorpedic surgeon and discussed surgery.... very expensive, Cob's age, his other medical conditions, more than one disk involved and the surgeon not feeling that the outcome would be very good, we decided not to do the surgery. There is another website I should have given you: corgiaid.org. They offer assistance to rescue corgis that need carts, not sure if they offer anything for corgis from breeders etc. To determined degenerative myelopathy I think all they can do is draw a blood sample and check to see if the gene is there for that. So the blood would be sent to a special lab that tests for that and I can't remember where that is. I think someone from here told me about it so I would have to look at some old posts.
Cobi has definately lost some muscle in his back legs too. Intially the vet told us to keep him quiet for 2 weeks but then once we realized what was going on she advised us to treat like normal so we actually encourage him to scoot around. He has to come to us if he wants a treat or to play etc. I would first find out if that is ok with your vet though, depending on what is causing this for Molly. Please keep me updated.
Dominique
Molly looks like a sweetie.
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Cobi has definately lost some muscle in his back legs too. Intially the vet told us to keep him quiet for 2 weeks but then once we realized what was going on she advised us to treat like normal so we actually encourage him to scoot around. He has to come to us if he wants a treat or to play etc. I would first find out if that is ok with your vet though, depending on what is causing this for Molly. Please keep me updated.
Jan 22, 2009