30/12/2024
✨Not so little Nev✨
As many of you are already aware my own dog, Nev, has recently had orthopaedic surgery after sadly being diagnosed with bilateral shoulder OCD at eight months old.
OCD is a developmental condition of the cartilage, the exact cause is unknown but it is most commonly seen in fast growing male border collies. The rapid growth can exceed the cartilage blood supply, the diseased cartilage then breaks off leading to pain, inflammation and lameness. As you can see Nev absolutely shot up and already towers over his half brother Kip!
Nev quickly underwent bilaterally shoulder surgery at Kentdale and after a month of crate rest he had the 4 week sign off on Friday. He will now start the fun bit(!) with weekly hydrotherapy and daily physio. I wanted to document his progress over the next couple of months so we’ll start with this post showing the loss of muscle in the left shoulder. Over the next few weeks/months (hopefully!) we’ll see this improve and Nev get back to his normal life. We are all still hopeful he will go on to have a career as a working sheepdog🤞🏻
