Has anyone here ever had to deal with, or know of anyone else whose had a dog with lyme disease? For the last couple years, he's had a bad limp (he's only 4 years old), especially after hiking. We've had him x-rayed for displaysia, broken bones, you name it. After spending $3000 at WSU vet hospital looking for a solution, all they could come up with was a tiny broken sesmoid bone in his toe. They didn't think it was what was causing him the limping and pain, but was their closest guess. Well, the surgery didn't help, so they just ruled it out as arthritis.
After doing some research recently, I found that Lyme disease in dogs (and humans) is often mistaken for Lyme disease, and that would explain why we could never find anything wrong in xrays and scans. It only takes 12-24 hours for the tick to pass on the disease, and I remember pulling a huge, nasty white tick off of my dog right around the same time the issues started. Going to go get him tested next week, but was just curious as to if anyone else has dealt with this before.
