My Rottie Shultz is 6 years old and at the begining of the new year lost his leg to bone cancer. With the help of family we where able to get the leg amputated and we underwent the Chemo treatments. He adapted extreamly well to three legs and as of our last visit is still cancer free. 

But what we where told was a possbile strain on the remaining back leg progressed to total lameness of the leg, followed by lack of bladder and bowel control. We took him to our regular vet and was told it was neurologial in nature. With a limited number of tests to determin what it could be it was finaly settled on an MRI..the bad news it would cost close to $2000.00.

With a huge fund raising push on my end we have managed to get over $1200 and have the MRI booked for later this week. There have been improvements since the vet visit such as, pain reflex and bowel control returning [well untill the one medication gave him bloody stool, but that is improving to regular diarrhea now and on the mend]

The vet figures it is either cancer in the spine, herniated disk or pinched disk, or an infection. So we are now treating for bad/pinched disk and infection till we can get the test done. We got an animal chiropractor to come and look at him and she did verify that his last two vertearea where out of alighment, but could not tell if it was pinched or herniated. 

Anyone else ever have/heard of this happening?