Symptoms such as a sleepy leg should not be ignored, says RAPS Animal Hospital surgeon.
This behaviour is not all that uncommon for cats and dogs — sometimes it is a sign of a fairly innocuous injury or a sore paw that will clear itself up. But a veterinarian is urging pet people not to ignore this sign and get an animal to the hospital as soon as possible. The alternative could be disastrous — and extremely costly.
The surgery River received is called tibial plateau levelling osteotomy ; it is both the most common orthopedic surgery and probably the most difficult for surgeons. “On a scale from one to 10, TPLO is usually nine to 10,” says Arad. “It's high risk. You have to be a very competent surgeon and somebody who has a lot of experience in orthopedics to start doing TPLOs.”
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