I have just been reading the thread about Jake, watched the video and saw the bit about 'short term'. I had two GSD's with CDRM father and son. Their story is on my website. I too was told 'think in months rather than years' about Sabre who was then only 8 and three quarters!! I refused to think in months and tracked down the physio for Sabre who at that stage had the very slightest limp only. With what the physio taught him he walked till he was 12 which isn't a bad age for a fit GSD never mind a CDRM one. His Dad Prince could not be helped with physio because he had bad athritis Wheels were suggested but I said "it would not be fair to him" and the vet said "How did I know what Prince would consider fair?" I tried hydrotherapy for him but it did little for his rear end but made his front extra strong so I bought him wheels. I now know they were the worst ones on the market but never knew that then but awful or not they gave him an extra year of life and he died at 14 just 5 weeks before his son died. Given that I gave him an extra year I decided to get as many dogs mobile as I could in memory of my two and I represented the US company making the best wheels ever but after a few years they became more and more expensive to import so I started making our own. On my website there is a link on the About Us page to a 30 page document entitled Nobody Suggested Putting Granny To Sleep explaining all the various makes of wheels, plus my own Chariots of Fire, an article on CDRM, Von Ryans Express by Jeane Harrison of GSD Welfare Fund which was published in the German Shepherd Breed Council Magazine there is also a link to a couple of dogs we have recently put on wheels. On average it will buy them a year but in many instances it is a lot longer. CDRM dogs can appear to become urinary incontinent, they aren't, they simply cannot operate their own bladder and it is very easy for us to do this for them. If anyone wants info on this contact me. my website is
Dogswheels - wheelchairs for dogs
Where you are free to download the pdf file which will need Adobe reader but that is free from Adobe.com
29-09-2008, 06:15 PM
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