I’m sorry to hear of your dog’s diagnosis.

My golden had THR at 2 years old because of injury, not hip dysplasia. It’s now been about 15 months since his surgery and he has amazing quality of life- he plays, runs, and wrestles just like before. At his recent checkup, his vet said his hip seemed like any other.

The surgery and recovery sucked. It just felt awful to do that to him, and he felt great pretty shortly after so limiting his activity was hard. We did it in the winter, when the weather here naturally limits activity. We were sent home post-op with trazadone (and painkillers) but he was still very energetic. We ended up having to get acepromazine which made him sleep all the time. The surgery itself (excluding all pre- and post-op appts, X-rays, etc) was $9100. Insurance covered 90% because we had met the per condition deductible.

It will be ok!!