Hi Virginia ~ I noticed your comments on Kathryn & Snoops page regarding Yogis diagnosis of DM and hope you don't mind me asking you some questions. You say that Yogi had 2 spinal surgeries that did not help. Did he have tests that showed disk problems that led the vet to do the surgeries? What did they find when they did the surgery? My 11 yr old Cobi has seen two vets this week, one a specialist and they both feel he has a degenerative disk disease not DM but he has been on steroids for over a week with no improvement and the specialist is not sure surgery would help him due to his age, and his epilepsy etc. Cobi's regualr vet wants to wait on the cart and see if we can rehabilitate him, so rest for 2 weeks and then reevaluate. He is unable to walk on his own without the help of the bottoms up leash, which we are only to use to take out to potty, ok to massage and move both rear legs while laying down. We want to get him up and in a cart and feel his mental state would improve. This has been so difficult to watch him not be able to walk and play, he always looks so sad.