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I just checked his pads and there is all over wear and he is in excellent health and 56 lbs. My vet (not board certified) only does the lateral suture which I feel is for less active or older, or smaller dogs. The board certified surgeon only wants to do the over the top intra ligament replacement which is very invasive. They take a ligament from the hocks and pull it down under the tibula and loop it through the knee cap and sew it back onto the hock. With this technique I'm concerned with repercussions of the missing femor ligament.

Thank you!!!..I found your post and have been reading it. I'm at least the one person you have helped.

My 6 year old McNab tore his ACL. He was chasing a squirrel in the backyard when he just went down, so I don't think it's the slow degenerative form of ACL. I was told I had time to decide on surgery and he is being forced to rest and on anti-inflamatory medicine. My vet wants to do the intra ligament repair (over the top repair) but I googled it and saw a low (15%) percentage success rate and a lot of complications. I need opinons on WHICH treatment, and any experiences others have had.

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I just found this out too. I always had Malmutes and this is my first BC. I had to start using the girls harness and cow chain lead on the BC and it was hooked a 300 lb dog hut and the BC pulled it out of the 4x4. I was going to buy a thinner lead as I thought the weight would be too much for him but now I just anchored it to the house. LOL

More info please...how did you train them not to chase the deer? It's over in a blink of an eye because they are not trapped like the critters in the back porch where I have close control over the dog. I'm worried because there are 3 or 4 deer that run the path and the buck is aggressive. The buck last year tore up the back of the yard doing that snorting pawing display with me just going to my car a 1/2 acre away. I am already going out with a flashlight because of the skunks and keep the porch light on all night for it, but the deer don't really care. I have him on a lead hooked to the house for now but he is not happy at all with this change. Loki is a trickster and can get out of the fence if he really wants to, but in 5 years the deer are the ONLY reason he has escaped so I need to direct my attention at training him not to. I didn't clicker train him because all the other lessons were with me giving verbal and hand commands.

Yes, but since I rescued him I have become disabled and was trying to avoid icy conditions. Obviously I had concerns over this but really wanted someone to say "Oh yeah just do this." LOL Thanks for the response.

He is in a fence which normally he stays in and it happens at night when I let him out and I can't see the deer. But yes, the deer come into the yard and right up to the fence to eat various plants and trees I have in the yard. There are lots of different animals out there and this is the only type he reacts to. He stops and lays down when told with birds that get stuck in the porch, ground hogs, loose dogs etc. and he's not trying to hurt them. He's just a pet, I have never trained him in herding and thought this was his natural response coming out. The deer have been there all along and this is the first season he has acted like this. Loki seems to be trying to move them to the end of the yard and away from the fence..not even back into the woods just away from the house. I will have to walk him at night and I will read up on focus but he already does well normally and I don't know how I can recreated these circumstances.

In November Loki herded a skunk into the back porch..he didn't know that the slapping was a warning and it didn't turn out well for any of us. Now we have a lot of deer in the back and he is just going crazy. The deer have a path they follow down the side of the house and into the woods. Loki forgets all commands and the frenzy starts. So far it's all good fun for him but I worry that the big buck will challenge him at some point. Should I be concerned?

Per the cradle hold thing ... I'd say don't do it any more. He's getting too old for that, and border collies in particular are sensitive to things they consider stress or pressure. Being turned on his back is an extremely vulnerable position and as he gets older, it may be starting to freak him out. So, stop it. You won't be doing that to him when he's full grown and weighs 40+ pounds, so respect his person and don't ask him to do things that are unnecessary and uncomfortable for him. He's not a squishy toy. ;)/>/> LOL...I wish you had told me that sooner as they don't always stop. My 6 year old, 56lb male still pounces me on the couch, lays on my lap on his back fully extended and DEMANDS I rub his belly for a long time.

Yes, growling, hair on the back up, bared teeth and flattened ears but all the while with a wagging tail, him in her lap etc. She puts his ever present ball in his mouth to keep him from biting her then after about 5 minutes it's over....till she leaves. She doesn't say goodbye to him to keep the anxiety down but he races to the door and growls again when she picks up her purse. As the other poster suggested, I'm sure I'm sad to see her go and may be the trigger when she leaves but not when she is arriving which is happy so I'm very confused.

Wow...yes I had a very emotional time with my daughter leaving and the dog was very clued in to my emotional state and was trying very hard to keep me amused. I actually have wondered and said that he might be reacting to her new smells as they are not familiar like our household smells..but that doesn't explain my son who still lives here so dismissed it.

I already stated that the can didn't work but if he bites either of them he goes down. As I don't want that, I am trying all of the "no growl, no bite" tactics. He is not destroying anything in the house he is threatening the kids.

Yes, definitely growling, it was worse with my son than with her and always when he senses they are getting ready to leave the house. With her it's when she first gets there and he is in her lap, then again when she is getting ready to go, that is why I thought it was separation anxiety.