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[Farseer]

By "bulls" these beings assume you do not mean the male form of a bovine animal?

Actually, I do mean the male form of a bovine animal, 'thul. We had about twenty-five head in our homestead compound (though not actually in our house yard) the last time one decided to trample his way over my vegetable garden fence!

That's interesting re your dog's condition but there are just so many different bone/hip problems out there, it would be difficult to know for sure if there'd been something or not. While Perthes is often undetectable via x-ray in the beginning, it can be diagnosed from bone scan imaging or later from x-ray as the condition progresses (at least in the case of humans!).

My son was first diagnosed at age ten after he just woke up one morning and couldn't stand or walk. There had been no trauma eg an accident etc leading up to the onset of his pain but he spent the next three months completely bed-ridden and the following four to five years often in bed or getting around using crutches and/or in a wheelchair. It was only last year that I could say he began to fully immerse himself back in his life. His local doctor had diagnosed it immediately, through a bone scan, but his orthopaedic surgeon in Townsville had refused to even ackowledge he'd had it for another twelve months, when it finally showed up clearly on x-ray.

My daughter, on the other hand, has it in both of her hips and has experienced pain since she was around two years old....though the symptoms and pain levels seemed to have accelerated quite dramatically around age five. Nearing her tenth birthday, I hope it will begin to decrease soon.

I also have a problem with my left hip and had that pain present as a child but, after having broken my coxic playing netball on a concrete court and falling straight on my bottom, all pain was later attributed to that...as it turns out, I may also have had Perthes that was wrongly diagnosed/undiagnosed.

All very interesting given my previous comment that Perthes in humans is supposedly not passed down but it is in dogs...and yet two-thirds of my children seem to have acquired it from me...!

Whatever it is with your dog, he has done well to have had such a long life it seems.

Being an island contintent, and thus a home 'girt by sea', I imagine it is somewhat difficult for zombies to make landfall here, at least without superior swimming skills...and, even then, our waters are well patrolled by toothed sea dogs such as the great white...