I am posting this for a new member who posted it in hopping around.  Thought she might get some help from Dr. Pam as well 🙂

Here is the link to the original post as well.    http://tripawds.....l/#p197583

Hi! My name is Silje, and I'm from Norway. This is the first time I've postet here, and I'm not the best in English, but I have to try. Hope I can make my self understood:-) One year ago I adopted a dog from a shelter in Cyprus. Here name is Whitney, and she is truly the love of my life. She was about 4 years old and had lived on the shelter for two years with a damaged front leg before I found her. When I finally got here home to Norway we went right to the vet to get her leg checked out. Sadly there was nothing to do other then amputate. Everything went well, and she had no problem adopting to her new life as a tripod. But from the day I got here home from Cyprus and took her out for a walk so she could do her business it was clear that she struggled to pass stool. It could take hours with walking on the worst days before anything happened. After doing some x-rays we found out that she has a deformed hip that makes it hard for her to pass stool. The vet thinks that she has been hit by a car since it's on the same side as her amputated leg. She has no difficulty sitting down when she's doing her business, the thing is that she needs to go for long walks in order to poop. She's on Duphalac to make it easier to pass trough, but she still needs long walks. Sometimes we go for several hours a day just so she doesn't get constipatet. I'm so afraid of how all these long walks will impact on her body, after reading that it's not good for her. So I really don't know what to do. We live in northern Norway and don't have any rehabilitation options for dogs and it's still very uncommon to amputate on dogs here, so I don't feel I get the best help from the vet on what to do. They only say she can live as normal. We don't go on mountain hikes, but she loves to run without a leach in the woods. She seems happy, and I haven't seen any signs of pain after our walks, but I get scared I'm missing the signs? She eats, sleeps and play, and the vet says she has good muscles in her remaining three legs. I've downloaded the e-books, and started reading, but so fare I feel I've done all the wrong things. I hope someone here can help me with some tips on what to do to make her life as best as possible. She is my everything, and I really want to have her in my life as long as possible. Thank you for reading.