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My son can home from Plott days with a 15 wk old Walker gyp. When he got her off the truck I saw that her right front leg had a pretty good bow in it and she was kinda walking on the side of her foot and also walking with a limp because of it. Now I've seen this before in younger puppies and I've always given them Pet Tabs which my Vet. recommended giving them and they ended up straightening out just fine. I've already started giving them to her but it usually takes a few weeks. Do you Guys think hers will straighten out? Her left leg looks good. Any other recommendations or should I load her up and haul her to the vet?

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i think it will with some vitamins! thats what the vet told me to give them for the rickits if thats what your pup has it looks like it. he says thats a vitamin defishency. who you get the pup from?

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Cod liver oil and plenty of sunlighti

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Got her from Mark Lessard from Maine. How much Cod Liver oil per day?

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look like rickets to me we had a pup with it and give her cod liver oil and could not tell it was anything the matter with her in about two weeks. I give a Teaspoon of cod liver oil a day you can get it in walmart in the liquid kind it comes in a green bottle

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Yea,
When I've seen it, it's been in both legs, one maybe more than the other. Her left leg may have a little in it but it just doesn't stick out like the right.
I'll start giving her Cod Liver oil this afternoon and see what that does.

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i got one from him too! luv the looks of these pups. have you had this breeding befre? how they do?

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Well my son said that the guy had papers on the sire and dam or maybe it was the grand sire and grand dam. Anyway they are supposed to have Finely River and Nance in the papers but I wasn't there and didn't get to look at them. Do you know anymore than that?
Got home from work with the Cod Liver oil and she's looks bad in both legs today If she gets any worse I'm taking her to the vet. I know the Cod Liver oil won't work overnite but man she can hardly walk today.

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looks like the growth plates done slipped in her ankles it shifts there whole shoudler, its cause by not gettin the right nutrition, could be different with this gale but looks similar to what my sid pups went threw, had wrap there legs for weeks on end they were 6 weeks old an looked like 3 weeks when i got em,

good luck with her

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eah thats what he told me.he sid the mother side was myers bam bam and the father was finley riverand nance they were all nice looking pups mine hadthe house cat bayed up soon as let her out the box when we got home! hahaha have you hunted with this line of dogs? what you think about them? this the first 1 of this line ive owned!

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I have some part Nance/Whitecloud/Spring Creek Rock bred Walkers that I've been raising for the last 10 yrs. My grandpaw used to have some Finely River hounds when I was a kid (35 yrs ago)that could cold trail, jump, catch and tree a bear that walked the day before. Other than that I don't have much of an idea about todays Finely River breeding and don't know a whole lot about the Bam Bam hounds. I really like the way this pups acts and she really goes after an old bear paw I got out of the freezer and drug around for her.

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JR
The Rock dog that BO had and Curtis end up with was out of myers bam bam im pretty sure.

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Yea I forgot about him being from him.

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if it is rickets you might try a product we get down south here called S.S.S. tonic here we can buy it at most grocery stores in the household medicine section. my vet first told me about it about 15 years ago I had a with it back in January gave it to him for three days he is good as new

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Thanks ttrusic

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10 days now. how's it coming along?

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The Cod Liver Oil and sunshine must be doing the trick she is starting to look normal.

3 Days in.


10 Days in.

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Man, that's a good looking pup and it hasn't even been ten days yet. I counted wrong.

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i would have never believed the difference in that dog. good luck with him.

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I wouldn't have believed it either. When my son first showed her to me only the right front was slightly bowed and as you can see from the pictures what she looked like 3 days later. I wouldn't have believed she could get that bad that quick and and then straighten up that fast. She's running and jumping and acting like a pup should act. I like the way she looks and acts and she's always got her nose on the ground.

Thanks everyone for all the advice.

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How much oil do you give her a day?

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2 Tablespoons a day.

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IMPRESSIVE TO SAY THE LEAST. I AM HAPPY FOR YOU, YOUR SON, AND THE PUP.

I WOULD BE CURRIOUS IF MORE IN THE LITTER HAD THE PROBLEM ?

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Yea, I contacted the seller to see if this was a trait of his breeding and he said that none of the littermates to this pup had anything like this. He also said that he didn't notice anything wrong with this pup when she was sold to my son. As quick as she went from one extreme to the other and back I believe him.

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