Yelping

[stuartmmcfc]

The obvious step is the vets but what’s your thoughts?
My Labrador is 4 years old, she’s fit and bang on her “ideal” weight of 22-5kg.
She walks, runs and jumps absolutely fine but when I dry her left leg she often yelps.
Continued touching doesn’t seem to bother her, it’s the initial contact. We’ve looked and we can’t see anything wrong. Any ideas?

[parakitaMol.]

Sorry your dog is having this pain. You’re right, vet check is really important to establish what the pain cause is. It could be a number of things and the vet will rotate and manipulate the leg to find the cause, it could be something like a tissue issue with tendons or ligaments or it could be orthopaedic with joints, or something else that’s referred to another area (even lumbar or spine). With a Lab it could be a common Lab thing with hips so I’d urge a check sooner than later to put your mind at rest. Good luck