[Mikey T]

Pano is general very painfull it effects males 4 times as often as females. The most non evasive diagnose tool is to squeeze the long bones (middle of the bone) the radius, ulna and humerus of the effected leg and compare the results with the what happen when squeezing the bones in an uneffective limb. In pano one of the bones in the effective leg should be painful when squeezed.


The a number of possible causes that may not be pano so having the dog examined for a definative diagnoses is the best course of action.

 

[Mikey T]

I have to say that walking a puppy that is only five months old for 45 minutes is far too much,

That state could not be further than the truth. There are too many factor to be taken into consideration in making such a determination.

What it the speed of the walk, from the dog perspective.. a walk, trot,cantor. What is the surface, how hard is it, what is the fitness level of the dog. What is the weight of the dog. Walking is a low stress exercise. A dog should be able to walk a considerable distance but at the same time it endurance need to be worked up to slowly over time. Moderate exercises like walk can reduce fustrtion levels of pups from inadequite exercise which then on ther own will engage in much higher risk activities like jumping etc. One also must keep in mind that what most people call a wlak with a basset hound is hardly that a 45 minute walk could easily be a 5 minute walk and 40 minutes of sniffing without out seeing an exercise program is is imposible to legitimately comment on it, the best thing is to provide information and let the idividual chose to you or ignore that information,

Keeping Your Large Breed Puppy In Shape

The Role of Exercise in Preventing HOD

It is our collective experience and our opinion, the majority of growth problems, poor conformation, lack of soundness and bad movement are normally due to a lack of free exercise in the early stages of development - under 8 months

I think some uninformed people/new Basset owners, think they can walk Basset pups like they could a young Collie/Terrier/Husky etc that has what I call a springy/bouncy body, but you have to be patient and make it gradual until they are grown

a dog is a dog is a dog, if they need some special care one has to question what the breeder is doing in creating such an exteme body type that requires special care. A basset should be able to hunt all day. If you need to not exercise the dog for the equvilent of it childhood there is something seriouly wrong with the breeding program. Their has been tendency to promote extreme types in the breed ring which contributes to being over careful about the dog development as it grows but if this need to be done it is neither good for the dog or the breed. Recently the KC has adjusted the breed standard of the Basset Hound which should hopefully have an effect in reigning in the extremism seen in a number of "eurpean Basset hounds" This extemism was more common in the US 2 years ago but more recently more moderate and fit bassets are winning in the breed ring rather than dogs that have trouble getting out of their own way.

THE INTERIM STANDARD (WITH CHANGES)

 

[Mikey T]

At any rate, I doubt that a 45 minute stroll around the neighborhood would cause a problem.

Percisely there is a big difference from a liesurely stroll vs jogging etc. The concept of free play is the dog will not engage in activity that cause it pain. But anyone that has watch puppy play is sure to witness activity that is far more stressfull and traumatic on the joints, tendon, muscle and ligiments, than walking is.

she recommends switching the puppies to adult formula at 4-5 months old

Which was sound avice 10-15 years ago. It is not so clear there is benefit to doing so with the advant of Large breed puppy food, that is lower in caloric content and calcium and phosphorous than traditional puppy food and on the calcium and phosphorous font lower than adult food as well. A strong argument can be made for keep a puppy on large breed puppy food until the growth plates close. However there is vast difference between brand of commercial dog food so making a sweeping generalization is not appropriate.

you seem often to reply to messages on here with quotes from books.... and I don't know if you are a vet or something like that..... or maybe you are a Google fan like myself at times!

Not a vet but when it comes to putting forth an argument it is important to substantiate it. So any link Is provided to Either substaintiate and argument or and more likely to provide more detail and elaboration than can be done in this type of forum. Since I know many or most are unlikely to ready said link I include a quote for the purpose of substaination.