A Little Backround Info

For those of you who weren`t sure, Tristan is a pure bred smooth chow chow. He was born July 22, 1995. From a very early age he began having skeletal problems. He has severe hip dysplasia in his right hip, moderate hip dysplasia in the left. However the left side is the side that has the bad knee on which he has had several surgeries. Over the years he has shifted so much of his weight to the front that he has now developed terrible arthritis in his left elbow, causing him to limp rather badly at times. Last year he was xrayed from head to toe and I was told he not only had arthritis in all the joints of his limbs but also in his spine and neck but yet he never complained and greeted each and every day with a wagging tail. Probably because he didn`t know any different. My hopes with doing this procedure is to give him finally a morning when he can wake-up and not feel pain. For more pictures of this special guy you can check his web page.http://www.luckyviichows.com/tristan.htm I hope to be able to show other people with this blog what is involved in doing the stem cell therapy and how Tris progresses in hopes that it will help some other dogs with similar problems.