[lucasmom]

Sherri-
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. This is very difficult and I appreciate your sharing with us your experience with losing your dear rottie. Deep down I know that I will get through this and perhaps someday consider having another dog since I have always had a dog in my life. However, there will NEVER be another Lucas!! He has/is the best dog I have ever had the honor to own. I am not sure if I will get another rottie though, even though I am dearly in love with the breed. My Lucas has seriously cost us nearl 10K with all of his surgeries and now this. He is worth every penny...but I cannot go through this whole OS thing again. One in eight rotties will be diagnosed with OS by age 8. These stats are way too high. I cannot do this again.

To answer your question about neutering...I have never heard of this, nor does it make any sense to me. Lucas was indeed neutered at age 6 months as this was the recommendation from our vet as well. I wonder what the correlation is and if the information you received on this subject is correct.

It is good that you found this site and I invite you to follow along with us on this thread. We need each other to support through our dark days ahead. Thanks again. Laurie