What s wrong with the dog s hind legs being weak and unable to stand up

Reasons why the dog can't stand up on its hind legs:

1. The dog will have weakness on the hind legs and cannot stand up, accompanied by no energy, no eating, loss of appetite, depression, watery discharge from the eyes and nose, sneezing, and diarrhea.

2. If the dog's hind legs are injured or fractured, the owner can check whether there is an obvious wound on the dog's legs, or touch the dog's hind legs, if the dog howls or dodges, it is very likely to be a fracture.

3. There is also a situation that dogs may have neuritis, resulting in paralysis of their bodies, if this situation also needs to be examined neurologically, with MRI to diagnose**.

4. If the dog has an unbalanced diet for a long time and lacks vitamins or calcium, resulting in weakness of the dog's legs and feet, a similar situation will occur.

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The symptoms described may be ataxia, claudication, muscle weakness, pain, etc. There are many causes of these symptoms, such as osteoarticular dysplasia, joint dislocation, arthritis, bone tumors, fractures, and so on. Muscle and ligament strain, atrophy and dysplasia may also occur, and symptoms of ataxia may occur due to poor nutrition, spinal cord neuropathy, and diseases of various organs.

Therefore, you need to go to the hospital for a systematic examination and then **.

The dog's inability to stand due to hind legs requires several considerations: First, the dog's nails are too long. Dogs are different from the way human nails grow, they are curved, and too long nails will cause pain in the dog's fingers, so the owner observes the dog's nails and regularly cuts the dogs' nails; Second, the dog is deficient in calcium.

Calcium deficiency not only can not stand normally, but also will cause loss of appetite, peculior, emaciation, etc., it is recommended that the owner can supplement foods such as nutritional paste; Thirdly, the dog suffered a leg injury. If the pain is obvious, the dog needs to be taken to the pet hospital for further diagnosis and**.

It should be caused by calcium deficiency, or has caused arthritis, need to pay attention, the more arthritis is not careless, the worse it is, you can feed the dog some sbesitin to eat, you can supplement joint nutrition, promote bone regeneration and reconstruction, and slowly adjust and recover, during which you should pay attention to let the dog rest, avoid strenuous exercise, control weight, eat more light food in terms of diet, avoid greasy food, and eat a month of bonebone to recover. Learn more.

There are two situations that you can observe and distinguish.

One is that there may be a calcium deficiency. Calcium deficiency causes the dog's feet to be soft and unable to stand. This needs to be done slowly and given calcium supplements. In addition, it should also be supplemented with drugs that promote calcium absorption, such as vitamin D3, vitamin A, etc., so that it can slowly stand firm.

The second is arthritis that may be caused by streptococcus. This inflammation must be treated with antibiotics, or it will not be useful if you supplement calcium. Antibiotics can be penicillin, ampicillin, benzathine penicillin or procaine penicillin, diluted with analgin injection, used for intramuscular injection, and good results can be obtained.

Usually don't let him do jumping movements, as well as up and down the stairs, their own dog is because the hind legs are too worn out, can't stand up, even if they stand up for a while, they will lie there, have eaten chondroitin, but the effect is minimal, I don't give it to eat, change the pet bone standing, the effect is better than chondroitin, eat 2 and a half courses, the doctor said that the wear has been reduced, and the cartilage is also well protected.