{"id":2040,"date":"2011-11-26T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2011-11-26T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T22:40:31","slug":"senior-dogs-ligament-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/senior-dogs-ligament-tear\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on Senior Dogs and Ligament Injury &#8211; Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our golden retriever Bailey is ten and a half years old and has endeared two surgeries(TTS) for a torn cruciate ligament, the second time being to remove one of the failed\/broken implants. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swimming-golden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swimming-golden-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"CCL Tears in Older Dog\" title=\"Senior Dogs Cruciate Ligament Injury\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swimming-golden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swimming-golden-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/swimming-golden.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>He has now torn the ligament in the other leg, our vet said he is healthy and would benefit from surgery, but we are very hesitant about surgery\/recovery at his age. <\/p>\n<p>Considering the first surgery was not completely successful we do not want to put him through that again. We want to do what&#8217;s best for Bailey to improve his quality of life and to keep him happy and healthy for years to come. <\/p>\n<p>Any advice from similar situations would be very helpful and appreciated!<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our golden retriever Bailey is ten and a half years old and has endeared two surgeries(TTS) for a torn cruciate ligament, the second time being to remove one of the failed\/broken implants. He has now torn the ligament in the other leg, our vet said he is healthy and would benefit from surgery, but we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/senior-dogs-ligament-tear\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,87,20],"tags":[71,156,152,153],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senior Dogs &amp; Canine Cruciate Ligament Injury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Read about Bailey, a 10.5 year old Golden Retriever and her owner&#039;s decision on whether to pursue surgery for a 2nd ACL tear.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/senior-dogs-ligament-tear\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mandie\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/senior-dogs-ligament-tear\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/senior-dogs-ligament-tear\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mandie\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f34d31f6169ceb41add3e91194d18833\"},\"headline\":\"Advice on Senior Dogs and Ligament Injury &#8211; 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